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the_dengle on 28 March 2013
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Gugerface said:
the_dengle said:
Are you seriously asking what kind of Nintendo software can push hardware sales?

You must be new to the industry. Maybe you've never heard of the Wii, a console that outsold its competitors on the strength of Nintendo's software alone. Nintendo near-single-handedly carried the Wii to 100 million sales. Suddenly their games are going to be unable to sell any significant number of Wii Us?

lol thread is lol worthy


How did those nintendo games push the gamecube? You know, the previous nintendo console.

As I've said before, these aren't the same games as they were 12 years ago. Hell, this isn't the same industry as it was 12 years ago.

Just look at Mario Kart. Before 2005, its best-selling game was 64 with under 10 million sales. The GameCube iteration, Double Dash, sold under 7 million. Then the DS came along. 22 million sales -- more than double 64's sales. Then MK Wii... 33 million. Nearly 4 times the sales of 64. Nearly 5 times the sales of Double Dash.

The trend isn't stopping. Mario Kart 7 is still tracking ahead of the DS version from aligned launches, and it took just over a year to eclipse Double Dash's lifetime sales. This isn't a series that sells 7 million lifetime anymore. This is a series that sells 7 million in its first year.