Japan Sales - Media Create,Famitsu, & dengeki: week 47 ( Nov. 18 - Nov. 24 ) Bomba everywhere!!

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EricFabian said:

naruball said:

EricFabian said:

NeroPrototype said:
What did you guys expected? Mario is no console saviour. It can be the best Mario in the history of Gaming and still... It wouldn't save the Wii U. Smash could have been a system seller but It's coming for the 3DS too so yeah, i'll be gettin that one instead of a Wii U (Dumb move by nintendo if they still care for the wii u.) Zelda can be a system seller... Or Metroid. This generation will be all about hardcore gamers... And Nintendo needs to get its shit together, I had to play A Link Between Worlds on HERO MODE for it to be a challenge and I still find it somewhat easy... GIVE US SOMETHING CHALLENGIN'.

So Mario is not a system seller, but Metroid is.

Ah! the beauty of arguments through gifs. Yup, definitely lead to some great discussions.

do you believe that a Metroid game could move more systems than Mario?

Mario coming off of a pricecut and a bunch of new bundles failed to do anything, it's humiliated by Pikmin 3. I actually think that a Zelda would easily move more hardware (didn't Zelda: WW HD do more as well?), Metroid Prime could do the trick as well. You know why? People don't care about Mario enough to buy a console for him. Once they own the console, they'll pick his game up, sure. But at this point Nintendo is just throwing Mario games by the dozens and nobody cares anymore. How am I to be excited about the new Mario, when we already got like 6-7 Mario games during the last 12 months? On the other hand Zelda and Metroid are games that are worth picking a console up for.

I am personally waiting for a Metroid Prime (or at least Trilogy HD), a dark and gritty Zelda and X. No number of Mario games can influence my purchase. Maybe Mario Kart would be the only Mario game that I'm excited about. Once I get the Wii U I'll surely get 2D and 3D Marios down the line, but I won't even think about buying the console for them. That's not how they work, Nintendo should give him a bit of a rest after MK and SSB and focus on developing other franchises.

Though a price cut is key for me.