I do not think Mario Kart 8 is going to boost sales much

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spurgeonryan said:

I was at the Gamestop Mario Kart 8 demo showing this weekend.

The line was three 4 year old Asian kids who snuck in somehow. No idea where their parents were. After they left, I played to my hearts content.

Visuals were nothing amazing. I played the Airport level and the water level. I got nothing from the anti-gravity effect. If I was able to see the rest of the track upside down then it would have been interesting. But when you go upside down, all you see is the track you are on.

Speed was alright, but I felt it could have been a lot faster. F-Zero like speed is what I am thinking about. Everything else was there.

 

I give my demo play a 7/10.

But the point of this is that there was no line. Gamestop employees did not even act like it existed. Makes me feel like it is to late. Nintendo waited too long to bring out it's big guns. Even Einsem , a member on this site, said that he was able to play over and over again. But at the Pikmin 3 demo and other E3 like demo events it was hard to get even a second play let alone three or four.

 

What do you all think? Too late to even matter? Only current owners will buy the game and hardly any new games will take the leap?

 

I have a picture of the non-line, but my phone is not sending it. Will work on it and get it sent to my email hopefully.

Dissapointed to hear that.I was expecting to be wrong but maybe I'll wait for later to get the game. Anyway, thanks for your impressions.