| the_dengle said: Let me supplement the "2D Mario vs 3D Mario as system sellers" debate with this: 2D Mario games sell on the strength of their legs. 3D Mario games are much more front-loaded. So 2D Mario doesn't push a lot of systems all at once, but it becomes one of those games -- you know, when people say "when it has X games I'll buy it." 3D Mario, on the other hand, makes people say "it only has 1/2 X games, but FFFFFFFFFFFFFF I NEED IT." |
If I´m not mistaken, it did push a lot of Wiis when NSMB Wii was released.The NPD for December 2009 showed the Wii had sold about 4 million, so I take it NSMB Wii was the main game responsible for those monster numbers ,which was a record.
Of course, that was a special case, it was the first 2D Mario on a home console in 15 years (or more, if you don´t consider Yoshi´s Island a "true" Mario game)..plus it helped the system was cheap.
But now, I wonder how powerful the series really is...I know it´s got the best attach rate out of all the Wii U games so far, but with Nintendo having released two NSMB games so close to each other, and each one being so similar, sharing so many of the same assets (like some of the same music), I wonder if there´s some fatigue.
If they do release another 2D Mario, I seriously hope it´s a completely new game, detached from the 'NSMB' theme,,,like the NES games were, each one completely different from one another.
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