Will Mario Kart do for the Wii U what it wasn´t able to do for the GameCube?

[johnsobas]

TheShape31 said:
The numbers are misleading. The GCN had an incredibly small install base. Meanwhile, the Wii's install base was quite large, plus MKart Wii was bundled in with hardware as well. Bundles sell software big time. It has nothing to do with the franchise 'growing', only better hardware sales tactics. When MKart U comes out, unless it's bundled with hardware, it will likely see GCN-like sales. In no way will it sell huge with the small install base of Wii U. And if anyone's expecting this game to save hardware sales, just look at what happened with GCN. Not much of anything.

most of the mario kart wii sales were not from bundles, it sold something like 15 million before a bundle even came out and even after that it was still flying off the shelves.  Compare the more recent MK wii to the SNES, N64, and GC versions.  Now compare the 3DS and DS versions to the GBA version.  Notice how the DS version peaked in 2008 when the wii version came out despite coming out 3 years earlier.  The MK franchise hasn't been the same since the wii version came out, it's now a mega franchse.  Userbase has an effect but MK is not what it was in the GC days.