| happydolphin said: I know you must be facepalming from my last post to Trucks, but bear with me. Now it's true that you can't compare commonality between an apple and a broccoli in terms of texture. That's true. But one thing you can do is compare their nutritional values. That's why I was going abstract. Ultimately these are video games, and what metric we can use to measure their appeal is sales. The question was, what is more profitable for Nintendo. So whether one is a racer and one a platformer really is non-relevant to the matter at hand. |
I can't say I agree completely with this line of thought, especially for a hardware company that has an acute need to sell as much hardware by pushing software with broad appeal. 2D Mario is Nintendo's ace in the hole, but if it wants to keep selling its systems it will need to offer additional compelling games beyond just those platformers. 2D Mario makes a fantastic cornerstone, but you need more than just a cornerstone to build a structure.
Put alternatively, players can not live on Mario alone. That's why other series, like Kart, are invaluable in sustaining a platform.
Additionally, damned few series can do as well as Mario, and certainly not with the same consistency. The Kart games are big, but until the Wii they did not sell as well as their platformer counterparts. Even MK 64 sold worse than Mario 64 (the same doesn't hold true of the GC games, though). I expect the Wii's going to continue being the anamoly, and that it's because Mario Kart Wii launched at the height of Wii Mania in addition to having had an extra 18 months of sales time over NSMBWii.
With all that in mind, do you see why the question you pose is hard to answer with the data provided, and why isn't as important as it seemed at first?
| theprof00 said: I agree with the latest from iwata. They were simply not prepared with 3ds. |
Leaving aside how their actions and statements at the time implied that they thought otherwise, what preparations should they have made to make the 3DS the success they were aiming for?
