Why didn't Nintendo never release a Mario Golf/Mario Tennis on the Wii?

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Screamapillar said:

Well, they released Mario Power Tennis for Wii in 2008 under the New Play Control series, just like Pikmin and Metroid Prime.

I don't know if that counts, per se.

I think Mario sports games are better suited for portable play. Nintendo probably figured that since Wii Sports and Wii Fit were selling so well throughout all of Wii's lifespan, and since they couldn't be done on portables, that they might not have wanted to release motion-controlled Mario sports games to compete with the motion-controlled Wii series.

So, basically, just my roundabout way of saying that I assume Nintendo consciously decided no Mario Sports titles for Wii (other than soccer and baseball) in order to not cannibalize their own Wii Sports and Wii Fit games.

I don't think either Golf/Tennis Mario game could have possible hurt Wii sport sales for simple fact is you were forced to have Wii sports regardless as it came with the console (Japan excluded of course). I can understand somewhat the issue of cannibalize their existing sport titles. But Wii Sport was never really the complete full retail game in the first place and was more a tech demo to Wii potenial features. There was a lot potenial there for a more in depth game to be made based on Tennis/Golf section of Wii sports. Wii sport was no question the reason why the casual audience brought the Wii, so why not make follow up games which already proven to appeal heavily to the casual audience. It just seem like a no brainer really.