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ps4tw on 07 May 2014
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Nirvana_Nut85 said:
ps4tw said:
Einsam_Delphin said:
ps4tw said:

Nope I doubt it will because the only people who care about Mario Kart are the ones who already care about Pikmin/Donkey Kong/3D Mario etc so they will already have the console. That ultimately is Nintendo's failing- to appeal to a large audience rather than a small, but dedicated, group. 

So you believe Mario Kart 8 wont push any hardware at all then? Are you sure you wanna say that?


It'll be a small temporary bump, like we saw with other games, but soon enough it'll be back down to the 40k mark. 

I'm not so sure about htat, 40K seems too low. MarioKart was the biggest selling game last generation. While Nintendo might not maintain a 100-200K weekly bump, I believe that MK8 should help them maintain at least a 70K plus weekly sale range until the holiday season picks up considering the Wii U is selling 30K weekly and the only title relased in the past 5 months is DK (which obviously is nowhere near the scale of MK).

The Wii was also the biggest selling console of last generation...Casual gamers do not give a flying fuck that another Mario kart is coming out. No chance will it hit 70k weekly unless something crazy happens to Japanese sales. The majority of Nintendo fans have a Wii U already, so all the games from here on in are just picking up the stragglers.