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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Will Mario Kart do for the Wii U what it wasn´t able to do for the GameCube?

According to VGChartz, Mario Kart Double Dash sold about 7 million.By contrast, Mario Kart Wii has sold, so far, 34 million units, almost 5 times more!..so, the franchise has grown quite a lot compared to the GC days.

Truth be told, I have no idea of the individual power Mario Kart had in selling GameCubes back in the day, but given the power of the franchise nowadays, I wonder if a MK8/Wii U bundle would be quite a powerful combination on its own.



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It will do much more than it did for gamecube Mariokart is a bigger brand now.

Edit: won't do Wii numbers though. 



Mad55 said:

It will do much more than it did for gamecube Mariokart is a bigger brand now.

Edit: won't do Wii numbers though. 


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If it starts off as a bundle right away and is advertised as such, the WiiU will take off tremendously, assuming that it doesn't during the holidays.

It will help a lot, but not Mario Kart Wii status. More parallel to Mario Kart 7.



It would do much better if it was released this holiday, but Nintendo doesn't rush games so..... *shrugs*



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Mario Kart 8 looks sweet, the anti gravity theme might wow a lot of people. I predict 12-15 million in sales, not Wii numbers but still a solid amount sold.



Yes, the franchise is a lot more popular thanks to the Wii. Plus the MK 7 sales show that the franchise is still popular, it just won't reach MK sales (or any other game for that matter).



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Not even close.

Wii era brought in tons of casuals who bought the system for Wii Sports/Fit, and the NSMB + Mario Kart franchises cashed in on that big time. It was a perfect cross section.

Mario Kart 8 will sell about 1/3 of the Wii version IMO, but that's still a huge success and will be around 8-10 million copies life time.



Will Mario Kart do for the Wii U what it wasn´t able to do for the GameCube?


what? how can you say that? Without Mario Kark/Sunshine, Gamacube problably couldn't sell 22mil



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How will it sell more than MKDD? The Wii U has been selling worse than the Gamecube, they need to turn it around before that can happen.



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