Charge I am not denying that new IP played a major role. Which is a major point of.mine. before WiiFit would anyone have seen WiiFit as a killer app? Would WiiSports be seen as a killer app? No I remember people pissed that Galaxy was not a launch title everyone wanted Mario and Smash Bros day one. But what would have happened if Nintendo had bundled Mario and not WiiSports?
Look at DS new IP like Nintendogs and Brain Age play huge roles. What good would Mario have done?
I also am not denying Mario's sales potential. As you appear to be suggesting. I am saying it would he a stupid launch window title. Nintendo has at least two new IP from two of their finest developers. They have new bundled software they have many other strong IP they could launch with.
As I said the launch holiday season could see 4-million units good case scenerio and 15-million first six or so months. Now what good would a 20 million seller do? The hardware will be sold out if Nintendo launches at a reasonable price with the new IP and some of their other IP like DK and Star fox.
Nintendo launches?Mario when the hardware sales reach 15+ million units being able to sell its full potential and even pushing more hardware. It makes no sense at all to waste a Mario game at launch its a complete waste and then its also a very bad idea when planning to launch new IP.
-JC7
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