Mario Kart Wii: Undeserving sales

[cusman]

Mario Kart Wii

• Used really accessible motion controls with a sweet wheel accessory
• Best use of WiiConnect24 to date, easily the inspiration for Autolog feature that later showed up in NFS - Hot Pursuit
• Asynchronous Online Multiplayer done right with ghost challenges, tons of awesome online stuff
• Mario Kart online with spectator mode, party up, join up... all kinds of Nintendo firsts
• One of the most played game on Wii, just consult the Nintendo Channel for number of hours played including average per person
• Local multiplayer games that are good always end up with ever-green sales

Mario Kart Wii sales didn't happen in first 6 weeks. It is an ever-green sales title because the word of mouth on it is good. Local multiplayer helps it keep up the word of mouth based sales demand. Other developers need to key into this fact because when people play online, they do it alone with other people that are playing alone, but people that play local multiplayer create new demand.

So Mario Kart Wii sales are fully and persistently earned.