Super Mario Galaxy is a failure and Nintendo is to blame

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

RolStoppable said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

RolStoppable said:

Wait a second. I am not American, but the infamous Sunshine commercial got posted several times here on VGC and nowhere did that look like marketing towards the "core", except if you mean kids in the age range of 6-12 years.

I donno what you were seeing.  But this is the one I was seeing (edited for TV).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDg-HaoXvoI

While it may not be considered 'core' by todays standards, it definitely made fans of Mario 64 hyped for the game back then.  Too bad the game wasn't as good as this commercial...

This is what I was talking about.

...yeah, never saw that.

But even if Mario Sunshine had mixed signals going on, Mario Galaxy doesn't.  And its certain that many consider Mario Galaxy to be innovative in the Platformer genre.  While some in this thread think the game isn't performing well in sales, it certainly is performing well in all other ways.

While I still think the game is doing quite fine in sales, perhaps the reason it isn't selling as high as you want it to is because of other factors outside of the game itself.  Mostly many of the fans of the 3D Mario titles felt burned on Mario Sunshine and are/were hesitant for Mario Galaxy and/or the Wii audiance is much different than the audiance on the N64, as well as a number of other factors.

I know personally that before Mario Galaxy came out, I was hesitant to buy it because of my experience with Mario Sunshine.