famousringo said:
steven787 said:
famousringo said:
I don't see how they can be so sure that the effort of developing online play wouldn't result in substantially greater sales. Do they think it's a coincidence that Nintendo's best selling core game on the Wii is also hailed as being Nintendo's best implementation of online play?
Sure, Mario Kart Wii has a lot of things going for it, but quality gameplay, tons of content and broad appeal can be found other core games which haven't sold as well.
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Notice your example also has the word "Mario" in it.
Type Mario into the game database or this link and organize the results by sales... then go down to number 59...
That is how many million sellers Mario has had just that are tracked or recorded in the VGC database.
Edit: Hit post too early
Then add in all the games that are missing NA and Other numbers...
Why would they have to put in online? Maybe they learned from Mario Kart that online isn't used by enough individual players to include it. Maybe they don't care and just want an easy 3-5 million seller as opposed to a 10+ million seller.
The talent, like they have at Nintendo, is not unlimited. They can't be all things at once. To get more talent, maybe it cost too much. Maybe it just isn't out there.
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I've refined your search to make it more relevant. They have all sold half as much as Mario Kart or less, and only one of them has online play (an early and cumbersome implementation, I might add). You might add in SSBB, if you want another game with Mario and clumsy online.
I just have a hard time believing that the labour investment isn't worth it when the one game with Mario and an excellent online system has sold 8 million units more than any other Mario game on the platform. How many millions of units would online have to shift to justify the cost? I would think less than one.
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So what do you think then? Do you think that the Wii really can't handle it? Do you have another theory?
