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curl-6 on 29 March 2013
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NightDragon83 said:
tbone51 said:
NightDragon83 said:
ironmanDX said:
So software on the ps360 and ps4 and neXtbox will sell them but software on the WiiU will not.... Right...

Mario is a hardware selling God.

Ummm... didn't the Wii U launch with a Mario title?  And not just any Mario title, but a 2D installment?

So if Mario is a hardware selling God, and the Wii U received the latest 2D installment in the best selling franchise of all time, then why have the Wii U's sales been in the toilet since pretty much the end of the holidays last year?



2D mario isn't a system seller. Put it like this. Nobody buys a wii u for NSMB but When you have a Wii U you buy NSMB (meaning its a game everybody adds to their library when they get a wii u)

O'RLY???

Tell that to the NES, SNES, GB, GBA, DS, and the Wii from 2009 and on (it replaced Wii Sports as the default pack-in Wii game) then.

And I love how you say nobody buys a Wii U for NSMB, but then go on to say everybody who has a Wii U buys NSMB.

Since those consoles, players have learned from experience that the "new" super mario bros series isn't the recapturing of the 8-bit and 16-bit games they hoped for, and its appeal has shifted more to parents buying for their kids than the "core." The "core" don't want to buy a game for their next gen system that seems to be a HD Wii game, it feels lazy to them. The audience who doesn't care about this isn't buying cos they won't blow $350 on a console when they can get a 360 for $99.