Malstrom: "My purpose is to reveal and inform people about Nintendo."

[theprof00]

RolStoppable said:

theprof00 said:
Perhaps we are missing something else regarding mario though.
Perhaps, the reason why we haven't seen another 2d mario is because Nintendo hasn't seen enough demand for it. Surely, that long period in between SMW and NSMB played to their benefit, but what if releasing too many 2d marios will simply dilute the sales of each one?
If Nintendo were to make more 2d marios, would your example above of a 5 year old 2d mario outselling a new 3d mario still work?

In the late '80s and early '90s Nintendo basically released one 2D Mario game each year across the systems NES, Gameboy and SNES. All games sold well, more than any 3D Mario game ever accomplished.

As for your other question, learn how to read a graph. NSMB did not outsell SM3DL like you suggest. What would happen if Nintendo released more SMB games would be that the latest one of them would definitely outsell a new 3D Mario game, because SM3DL already has a hard time competing against an almost six years old game. Demand for 2D Mario games is high and it never disappeared. Nintendo just stopped making them, so people couldn't buy these games anymore. Games that do not exist cannot sell.

What I'm saying, since they release a 3d mario every year, is what would happen if they released a 2d mario every year? Surely SM3DL wouldn't have toruble selling against a game with 4 successive iterations, eh?