| RolStoppable said:
That unhealthy love for the Wii U and 3DS makes people believe that there's no space in the market anymore for a Nintendo home console and a Nintendo handheld, but all those two failures mean is that the GameCube DNA will never work. Yes, the 3DS is full of GC DNA, in case you haven't noticed. Nintendo can easily make more home consoles and handhelds, they just have to make sure that the hardware doesn't suck so hard that it drags everything down with it. When you look at Nintendo's updated shipments for Mario Kart 7 and New Super Mario Bros. 2, those two games have barely moved during the last year. This shows that the people who buy the 3DS are those who embrace Nintendo's N64/GC ways, and the only reason why the 3DS doesn't sell as low as the two aforementioned home consoles is that it doesn't face a PS1/PS2. If the 3DS reached the usual Nintendo handheld audience, then its "evergreens" would be actual evergreens. |
I'm not gonna argue with all of what you say here, Rol, but I'm pretty tempted to call these bolded statements at least questionable.
Mario Kart 7 sold almost 2 million copies in its third year on the market, and will easily sell over a million copies in its fourth year on the market. It charted at 31st place last week (week 126). It at least is seeming quite evergreen.
The two big platformers are also going 1+ million third year, and SM3DL still may, just barely, hit 1 mil 4th year.
They are not as massive as their predecessors, maybe they would be if they reached the "usual" incredibly massive audience, but there are still no other titles on the market I can think of as evergreen as these three right now.
