Demotruk said:
BBH said:
amp316 said:
Yeah. It's hard to play most racing games after you've played Mario Kart. Mario Kart's responsible for single handedly destroying that genre.
Heck, Nintendo's own racers like Donkey Kong Barrel Blast and Excitebots: Trick Racing don't sell worth a darn.
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The market that buys Mario Kart is mainly, vastly different to the market that buys a lot of HD Racing Games. You are assuming that millions of people:
a) Own a Wii and HD console
b) Prefer the Wii
c) And mainly race on Mario Kart
Not a chance.
I think the problem is that racing gamers have either been consumed by the many FPS games this generation, or are being smarter with their money and buying only the premium titles.
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I can guarantee you there are millions of people who are all of the above. probably 2-3 million. 72 million Wii owners out there, 30% of which own a HD console (multiconsole ownership statistics that came up here before)
and 22.5 million of those Wii owners bought Mario Kart, and Mario Kart is a very heavily played game going by the Nintendo channel statistics. So, assuming no particular alignments of taste, 30% * 22.5 million Mario Kart Wii owners = over 6.5 million. In practice alignments of taste will reduce that, but it'll still unlikely to be any less than "millions" who are precisely what you said above.
:p
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I forgot to add in point D, they key point.
- Users that previously had bought many other racing games.
What you are saying is that million of consumers who used to buy many racing games (like NFS for example), now don't bother and focus all their time on Mario Kart. I know there are people out there that are all of those point, but not enough to have a meaningful impact.
I mean - this is like saying last generation racing games sold poor beacuse everyone was playing GT on the PS2. We all know this isn't the case. I think it's just that old racers this gen haven't done enough to win over their fans, and that new racing games this gen aren't original enough.
I think Mario Kart caters more to the Mario market, rather than to the racing market.
