Mario Kart Wii: Undeserving sales

[Dodece]

@ps3-sales!

I agree with your sentiment. Nintendo has done the franchise a disservice by not increasing what is on offer. It isn't even a question of changing the core play mechanics. Going so far as doubling or tripling the number of tracks, and adding a few more new modes, new rule sets, or a number of new vehicle classes. Wouldn't have fundamentally changed the underlying game. While it would actually increase the value of the series from one installment to the next.

However your assuming that the game was largely purchased by previous fans of the series, and that probably wasn't the actual case. We are talking about casuals who probably never played the original installments, or lapsed fans who hadn't played the series in a fairly long time. So it was all new to them.

It will be interesting to see if Nintendo steps the next game up a few notches. You know just to keep pace with the volume of content that other games offer. Nintendo turned me off this past generation, but I did have a Wii in the closet, and I would have probably gotten it out if the new kart game had been a huge step up from Double Dash which was almost a copy of Mario Kart 64. Which was to be fair a huge leap over Super Mario Kart.

I know a lot of people will utterly defend Nintendo for not making serious content improvements to the game, but I see what you are getting at. Just not sure it matters to them all that much.