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NintendoPie on 17 May 2014
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Salnax said:
NintendoPie said:
Your seemingly "positive" write-up ended on some very sour notes. DLC? Mario Kart 7+? Like Capcom?

What's happening? That certainly won't expand the market.


I was mostly spewing ideas. And I feel that DLC is a viable path provided you use Capcom as a guide of what NOT to do.

Hell, if Nintendo's recent DLC offerings are anything to go by, they already know how to do it properly. Mario Golf, for example, offered $15 of DLC, but this DLC basically added 50% more content to the asking price of $30.

If the Mario Kart team spent the next few months making another two cups for Mario Kart 7, added four more characters, and offered the new content either as $10 of DLC or as part of a new $35/$40 retail product, I'd hardly be upset.

This won't expand the market, but done wisely, it won't lead to a contraction either.

Mario Golf is also looking to be the worst selling entry in the series yet.

Now, you can blame that on what you will, but this was also the first Mario Golf to offer DLC. More importantly, it was the first Nintendo game that had any first day DLC. Maybe people don't like it?