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polezo on 16 September 2008
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TWRoO said:
polezo said:
MrBubbles said:
mario kart is a casual game. are you actually suggesting it isnt...or have i misinterpreted what you said?

 

 You misinterpreted.  I meant when MK came out this past spring, we had seen the impact of the casual audience on consoles, and as such many of us expected MK to see stellar sales as a bridge title (selling to both casuals and the core).

In 2006, I doubt many of us expected these casuals at all...

Seriously. MK outselling Halo?  Think back to the days of the Gamecube and try and tell me you saw that coming...

Erm, you realise Mario Kart Double Dash has sold more than the orignal Halo right?

Had I thought about it, I would have seen this coming yes, the GameCube failed in the markets where Mario Kart matters most (Europe and Japan) If it hadn't Double Dash could have outsold Halo 2 as well.... Mario Karts appeal is huge.

Halo's appeal is mostly limited to Americans (as are a lot of XB and X360 games) and the XB happened to do quite well in America.

 

Good point about DoubleDash.  I always forget it had stellar sales because so many people consider it the Black Sheep of the Mario Kart family (personally its actually my favorite). 

Still, MKWii's sales will blow it out of the water.  Maybe the surprise is not so much that it will beat Halo, but that it will win by such a large margin.