So it's widely known as a fact that many Nintendo games have ridiculous legs. But here's the question that no one really bother to ask...why is this so?

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Mazty said:

BasilZero said:

I love how you quote me, the neutral guy when there were other people who made comments that should of been quoted l0l

Anyways in regards to New Super Mario Bros U since that was what my post was in regarding since all the other software on the Wii-U is lackluster imo - NSMB2 came out less than a year before this game, the fact that NSMBU came out in short time frame and still managed to do over a mil is amazing especially making it probably the first non-bundled Wii-U game to hit 1 mil physical,

1	Nintendo Land	WiiU	2012	Action	Nintendo	0.88	0.37	0.29	0.13	1.67
2	New Super Mario Bros. U	WiiU	2012	Action	Nintendo	0.70	0.29	0.47	0.11	1.58

compare that to...a game that was sold on a system that has 70+ mil units

2

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

PS3

2012

Action

Sony Computer Entertainment

0.26

0.12

0.02

0.06

0.45

3

LittleBigPlanet Karting

PS3

2012

Action

Sony Computer Entertainment

0.22

0.15

0.01

0.07

0.44

Gee I wonder why those games got over a million but not the ones on the PS3 :(!

 

Now if you make bundling as a argument

1

Mario Kart Wii

Wii

2008

Racing

Nintendo

14.45

12.21

3.62

3.21

33.49

1

Wii Sports

Wii

2006

Sports

Nintendo

40.39

28.38

3.77

8.54

81.07

3

Wii Sports Resort

Wii

2009

Sports

Nintendo

14.79

10.50

3.18

3.01

31.47

4

Wii Play

Wii

2006

Misc

Nintendo

13.83

9.11

2.93

2.84

28.71

5	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	Wii	2009	Platform	Nintendo	13.32	6.47	4.65	2.25	26.69
6	Wii Fit	Wii	2007	Sports	Nintendo	8.91	8.15	3.60	2.08	22.74
7	Wii Fit Plus	Wii	2009	Sports	Nintendo	8.81	7.93	2.53	1.86	21.12

Now I know some of these examples seem a bit weak (i.e. Wii sports games) but my main point is that people love Mario and there are two games on the list regardless of them being bundles or not - their still counted.

Show me one game (bundled or not on the PS3) that even managed to make it to 15+ mil - matterfact give me a first party title on the PS3 that managed to even do that and then get back to me on it.

Gee I wonder WHY people buy Mario games hmmm I wonder, the storylines are weak, the budgets I'm sure are less than some of the higher up "AAA" titles, and its the SAME DAMN GAME!!!.

 

 

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Damn that was hard to post like a rabid Nintendo fan lol

Come back when you aren't cherry picking the games. Try the Uncharted series, Killzone or God of War for PS3 and Halo & Gears of War for the 360. 

If Mario game followings were strong, then surely the Wii U wouldn't be where it currently is. 

Il ask you a question, would you pay 350$ (plus taxes) for a new console only for a 2d platformer? Now, try going to ask this to other people and see what their answers are. 2D mario games sell well in the longterm, but they don't sell systems. The mario games that will sell a lot of systems are mario kart and mario 3D.