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Killergran on 30 December 2009
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DM235 said:

So you agree, it's a lot to do with Mario?  Have you played both?

I somewhat disagree with the library comment.  The PS3 does have it's share of quirky games (Buzz and EyePet come to mind).  To me it is still more of a jack-of-all-trades type console, with something for everyone. 

I don't think that NSMBWii has mindblowing innovations (just a great formula that works). 

My wife does not play video games.  However, when I showed her NSMB DS, she liked it, and she actually finished it.  When I showed her LBP, she also liked it and finished it. 

Do you think that people that don't normally play platformers would pick up a copy of NSMBWii?

What my thought process was that there is a similar percentage of gamers on each console who like to play platformers (maybe this was my error in judgement).  If a platformer was released on both the PS3 and the Wii, I would expect the Wii game to sell twice as much, given that is has roughly twice the marketshare (63 million vs 30 million).  Using this logic, NSMBWii should sell 6 million.

I cut your post up a bit, so you can see what parts of it I'm actually responding to.

Yes. I've played both, though not at length. But I think that in this case, it's not even relevant. The image the game has is more important than anything when it comes to sales.

And for the record, I don't think New Super Mario Bros. Wii does anything mindblowingly innovative either. But Super Mario Bros. did. That's the game that started the series and shot it up to stardom. It even made Mario more famous than Mickey Mouse. And that's the game Little Big Planet would have to outdo in terms of innovation to reach the same iconic status.

The Playstation 3 has some quirky but fun games. But take a quick look at the top 50 best sold games for it. In the quirky but fun category you'll find two Guitar Hero games, a ratchet and clank game (which is so focused on weapons I'm not really sure it belongs there) and Little Big Planet. Then take a look at the Wii top 5. Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Sports Resort, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Play. It's just a completely different type of games that make up the stuff people buy on the Wii. Because, I believe, the image of why you want a wii is different, the games people buy on the console is different. There are very few people that bought a PS3 to play Buzz, Little Big Planet or Ratchet and Clank. There are millions who bought the Wii for Wii Sports and Mario Kart Wii. It's a huge difference, and it makes a huge difference for sales of respective types of games on the consoles.

Same with your wife. She loves Little Big Planet, but she wouldn't think that experience was available on the PS3, so she wouldn't buy it. If she told her friends about it they'd probably shake their head and not believe her. It would be a completely different story with New Super Mario Bros. Wii. because the Wii's image is completely different.

I'd think that it's not as much about which console has the most amount of platform lovers (though I'd suspect the Wii would have a much higher percentage) but a case of which console has the most people that use it to play local multiplayer games with their friends and family. Using that logic, New Super Mario Bros. Wii would sell around equal to Mario Kart or Wii Sports (without bundles), while Little Big Planet only has the PS3 Guitar Hero and possibly Ratchet and Clank crowd to draw on.

 

I hope that you get my reasoning. It isn't all that much about the games, but the marketing.



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