| RolStoppable said: "The vast majority of people don't look at Mario Galaxy as a 3D platformer and NSMB as a 2D platformer, they look at them as Mario games."  You need to replace "people" with "Nintendo detractors". People actually see 2D and 3D Mario platformers as entirely different games, that's why there's such a massive difference in sales. This will be proved again when SMG2 falls far short of 10m while at the same time NSMB Wii goes on to easily pass 20m. If people really viewed 2D and 3D Mario platformers simply as "Mario games", then pretty much everyone who liked NSMB Wii should also buy SMG2. Not gonna happen, especially because there are oldschool 2D Mario fans who call 3D Mario "not a (real) Mario game". |
No I don't. If I was talking about the people on this site you would be correct, but I'm talking about gamers as a whole. And yes most people don't know the difference between 2d, 3d platformers, 1st person or 3rd shooters, nor do they care. They play games that they find fun. It has nothing to do with being a Nintendo detrator (as you put it). Just because people view them as mario games doesn't mean they are going to buy every Mario game. It's ridiculous to make that assumtion.
There could be a million reasons why NSMB outperforms MG, 4 player co-op, retro appeal from the nes and snes owners or simply its just a better games than MG. But it doesn't change the fact that they are both Mario games.
I'm not disputing that there are "oldschool and hardcore" people who know the difference and even consider 3d mario not "real" but they are in the minority, by a lot.
