3DS "doomed" planning thread

[Mr Khan]

kitler53 said:

Mr Khan said:

kitler53 said:
oh, quick side note. while i welcome any feedback from anyone i am mostly interested in the sites maelstrom (sp?) followers. they have a clairvoyance for what the mass market likes that i could never dream of. for instance - i thought mario galaxy 2 was going to drive wii hardware sales but then when that didn't happen i was informed after the fact why that clearly wasn't going to be the case.

i just want to clearly know what to expect going forward so that i'm not surprised down the road. that's why i'm curious as to if this software counts as they kind of software that will drive 3DS sales or not.

Though i don't agree with their ideas, the Malstromites would say that the only game on that list worth a damn would be Mario Kart and *maybe* StarFox. Everything else they would call developer masturbation or vanity projects, and these people have already declared that Super Mario 3D will bomb

first off - lulz.

second off - is there a particular thread where that was discussed?  i don't remember seeing it.

No particular thread, you just have to know who is aligned that way and pay attention to what they say, and also what Malstrom has said in general in the past. Mario Kart is a mass market staple that you can't really screw up, and he has praised Super Mario Kart and Kart DS in the past, which (given the return of coins) Kart 3D looks like, so there's that. 3d Zelda is niche, 3d Mario is niche (and in this case they refuse to acknowledge any efforts to make 3d mario more like 2d mario, which is what Mario 3ds seems to be doing), Kid Icarus they'd say is all flash no substance, Luigi's Mansion was a GameCube launch title, so a sequel to it can only be bad for a platform that wants to do something more than GameCube did

Malstrom might approve of Smash Bros, i'm not certain, as i haven't subjected myself to reading him at all lately, i get enough negativity in my life thank you.