Nintendo and the Gaming Press: IS INTOLERANCE EVIDENCE OF FEAR & PANIC

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Grampy said:

Videogirl said:

And if it goes the way of the casual (someone who can't distinguish a good game from a shovelware) it will also be remembered as the last generation.

 

Let’s take our top selling games this week worldwide. Eliminating the bundled games, the top selling games were MK Wii, Wii Fit, and New SMB. None of them is a member of the exclusive 90+ and yet their sales seem to indicate otherwise. Mario Kart Wii only scored 82 but sold almost a MILLION copies in one week, 37 weeks after launch. Wii Fit (is it even a game?)scored 80, selling 800K over a year after launch. There is something wrong with this picture.

 

Actually, NSMB does have a 90+ rating (or very close to it). Things is though, do you think the game would be selling nearly as well as it is now if it had starred Wario instead of Mario?
It doesn't matter if EA's fitness game turns out to be better than Wii Fit in every way. It's got no chance in hell of selling as much.

Quality often has very little effect on sales. Most of it's brand recognition, marketing and hype.