Wii U rides on Mario Kart

[Kasz216]

 

ps4tw said:

Kasz216 said:

ps4tw said:

Who cares how much it sells when the console its selling on is dead...Anyway stop reframing the argument. The title of the thread is "Wii U rides on Mario Kart". The point is can Mario Kart can save the Wii U? The average person doesn't care for it, so it won't save anything. 

Mario Kart Wii has sold nearly 35 Million copies.

If average people care about ANY videogames, Mario Kart is surely among them.

What competition did the Wii offer to Mario Karts if you wanted a competitive, social (easy to pick up) game? The majority of people didn't buy MK because it was MK but because it simply had no competition and therefore was the best choice. Otherwise how can you explain the sales of MK on the GC? Same goes for SB on the GC. Nintendo has a dedicated following, but that following is not growing so 1st party titles will have a high uptake but the games will not boost sales of the console for any extended period of time. 

How do I explain what... that they sold well?

A game can't get past 2 million on a system without broad base average appeal.

As for effecting how the system sold,  I'd guess though many casual average people bought the gamecube specifically for those games.

 

Gamecube launched strong.  Well stronger then it's sales deserved.  

It's a big reason why Nintendo decided to hold back those games when the Wii Launched... because those games DO move the needle with the average audience.

 

As for like super extender permanent software increases.  A signle game never sustains console sales long term by itself.   It takes a marathon of software.  

Games like Call of Duty have yearly releases.  Had they not, i imagine you'd see an identical effect.