RageBot said:
nordlead said:
RageBot said:
How much NSMBW would've sold if it was the exact same game, gameplay-wise, but with different characters, brand, yet still on the Wii?
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You falsely assume that Mario = Sales, but that isn't the case. If it was, every Mario game would be at 20m, but there are plenty which aren't. Heck, only a few months ago people were claiming that NSMBWii wouldn't even break 11m within the first calandar year. Also, Sticking Mario into a Metroid game wouldn't make sales rise, and in fact most people would probably say forget about it. I'm sure Nintendo does get a fair number of sales by the people who buy everything they produce, but the same can be said about any good company. Advertising has an affect on sales, I won't deny that. But a great game with good advertising will sell. A bad game with great advertising won't. A great game with poor advertising will flounder, and a bad game with bad advertising just flat out won't sell. You can advertise & paint a turd all you want, but in the end it is still a turd. Nintendo did not produce turds to sell 13m units and counting.
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1. You didn't answer my question.
2. That's because games that reach 20m always do so based on word of mouth, and if they are accessible by a wide audience, I agree that even if there was a Mario-Metroid it still wouldn't have sold that much more than "ordinary" Metroid, it at all, simply because, for it's genre, Metroid is a bigger brand, however, a Marioid would've still sold a lot, if it was a good game.
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1) No one can answer that question. What if it was New Wii Bros? or some other cool looking thing that took off? Nintendo could have a brand new IP on their hands that sold 20m. It could have sold even more, but with a slower start. The underlying game mechanics being great with different sprites would still create good word of mouth advertising. Would it have sold less? maybe. Would it have sold more? maybe. They use Mario because people associate similar kinds of gameplay which they love.
This whole debate makes me want to dig up the "marioboy" threads that were posted back when Galaxy was catching up to Sunshine.
