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stopstopp on 10 January 2011
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jarrod said:
Mordred11 said:

LOL @ people still comparing MK with GT5,the two games have nothing to do with eachother.

It's like comparing Avatar and Inception.


They're in the same genre (though not subgenre), that's the point for comparison.  

I think there's a bit of revisionism going on though, Mario Kart tends to get retroactively positioned as the heavy weight juggernaut but that's not at all the case.  Before this generation, no Mario Kart had sold over 10m, while every GT had.  This gen we have two Mario Karts over 20m, and two GTs that likely won't hit 10m... it's really been a massive seachange this gen, and more reflective of the overall consumer shift towards Nintendo and away from PlayStation.

Lol wat?

Mario Kart sold over 20 million because of install base alone, on a thriving console. Compared to the others, it isn't all that special, it could even be the worst selling I haven't checked in a while. Mario Kart DS is on an even better selling console, but sold worse. Although handheld attachment rates are responsible for that.

GT on the other hand is in the complete opposite position. Its like it is on Gamecube (although not as bad), but it looks like it will sell 10 million anyway showing GT has some real strength. PSP GT had no chance, that console was way too dead to for it to sell 10 million, plus handheld attachment rates are so horrible outside japan it never had a chance. PSP would have alive, plus twice as big to sell that kind of numbers. It's not GT's fault, it's handheld and PSP's dead platform at fault for that.