Erik Aston on 27 December 2008
Let's put it this way...
The first 4 MK games sold a combined total of 31.04m.
MKDS + MKWii have sold 26.45m so far. This past week, they sold 1.3m combined.
A fairly safe over/under for MKDS + MKWii would be about 45m. (18m DS, 27m Wii).
So in a fairly safe scenario, the last 2 entries of MK would outsell the first 4 by 50%, despite the fact that the first 4 averaged 7.76m units apiece, high enough to rank among the top 50 most popular games of all time. Try to wrap your head around that.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
