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newwil7l on 11 February 2013
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the_dengle said:
newwil7l said:
irstupid said:
newwil7l said:


Well actually Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii sold around the same amount combined, and they are only 2 games compared to 5

What he is saying is that there is only 1 mario kart game on each system. 

Meanwhile pokemon has multiple and more frequent.  Thus people may skip a gen, or wait till the 3rd one comes out ect.

BUT if they want mario kart there is no other way to get it than to buy the one versoin.


That is true, but it still doesn't explain why 2 Mario Karts outsold 5 Pokemon games

Nonononono. You're looking at it the wrong way, in terms of games. Let's look at it this way -- which is bigger, Mario Kart or Call of Duty? Call of Duty doesn't come anywhere near the 33 million of Mario Kart Wii, certainly not on a single console. But Call of Duty sells in the 20 millions every year. If Mario Kart had a new game release every year, would each game still sell 20-30 million? Probably not, since they are so reliant on their legs. They'd be lucky to average 10 million apiece; more realistically, they might average 5-7 mil apiece.

Pokémon is somewhere in-between, with a new main-series game every 18 months or so. As opposed to the 6 years between Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart 3DS, or the 3 years between DS and Wii and 3DS.

Pokémon has more frequent releases, but it sells more games.



But it doesn't sell more games. Just look at last gen for example. Just because you sell more games in the first year or so compared to a game that has legs doesn't mean your a bigger seller.