IGN: Racing games didn't sell well these days

[Alby_da_Wolf]

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.

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.

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

Most probably you are right about the numbers, but BBH is most probably right too about the bolded sentence: I have various racers, a lot of them were bundled with magazines, but due to the higher replay value and better driving feeling of the best ones, I rarely play the less good ones.