Which 8th gen home console will sell the most in 2014?

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Soundwave said:

I don't think Mario Kart 8 will sell anywhere close to Mario Kart Wii either.

MK Wii was the perfect bridge game for all those Wii Sports/Fit casuals that flooded in to the Wii, MK8 is not going to have the same boost IMO.

Plus I think MK Wii was "fresh" to a lot of people because of the steering wheel/motion gaming mechanic and the fact that a lot of people skipped the GameCube Mario Kart, because the GameCube simply wasn't popular enough of a console. So there was a long period for people's Mario Kart "apetite" to build up as it were (ditto for 2D Mario), a lot of people hadn't played Mario Kart since the N64 or even SNES days.

Mario Kart 8, having played it at E3, pretty much plays and feels exactly like MK Wii with a little bit of MK7 sprinkled in. It will still be a great game, but replicating MK Wii's success won't happen.

It's kinda the same problem I think Nintendo is running into with the New Super Mario Bros. series ... the first DS and Wii one put up monstrous numbers, but in part they felt really fresh for their time because a lot of people hadn't played a 2D Mario in ages. NSMB2 and NSMBU don't feel nearly as fresh because everyone just played NSMB/NSMB Wii a few years ago and the 3DS/Wii U aren't getting the Brain Training/Nintendogs/Wii Sports/Wii Fit traffic either.

People quickly forget that out of all 3 Nintendo had the biggest chunk of the casual market. Now I don't want to go into a definition of what a casual gamer is but I think we are starting to see a big exodus of those individuals in favor of other entertainment choices.