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JWeinCom on 29 March 2013
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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.



a 3D mario is more the system seller, also you mention 2d mario games in the 90s (except NSMB of course). Anyway if you think about it for a sec, wat i was referring to was that some people wont spend $300+ and $60 to play NSMBU! Butttttt People that have a WiiU will get NSMBU to add to their library. Get me?

Sales say otherwise... http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=1167&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

Look how far down that list you have to go till you get to the first 3D Mario title, SM64.

And I said DS and Wii, both of which had a 2D NSMB title on them which helped them sell extremely well.  DS didn't take off in popularity and sales until NSMB hit in '06, and NSMB singlehandedly kept the Wii selling from 2009 on after the novelty of Wii Sports had worn off.

Yeah... NSMB totally kept the Wii selling single handedly... because Wii Fit Plus didn't sell 20 million copies.  Mario Kart didn't sell 20 million copies since 2009.  Wii Party didn't sell 8 million.  DKC didn't sell almost six million copies... Wii Sports Resort didn't sell 31 million... Super Mario Galaxy 2 didn't sell 7 million... In fact, none of the 38 or so million sellers to come out after 2009 had anything to do with the Wii's success.  Nope.  It was all NSMB.  Nobody cared about anything else for the system.  While we're at it, Nintendogs, Brain Age, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart DS, and the DS Lite had nothing to do with the success of the DS.  It was all based on one 2D Mario game.

And the novelty of Wii Sports was soooooo worn out after 2009 that Wii Sports Resort only sold 31 million copies (more than NSMB).

But lets just pretend that NSMB was the only game that people considered when they purchased the Wii, because that will allow us to continue on the ridiculous claim that goes something like "OMG 10 MILLION PEOPLE DIDN'T GO OUT AND BY A WII U WITH NSMBU DAY ONE AND NOONE BUYS NINTENDO STUFF FOR ANYTHING BUT 2D MARIO SO NINTENDO IS DOOMED!"