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curl-6 on 14 July 2014
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spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

3D was new back then, so even a Kart racer could be ambitious. But times have changed. Unless it's Mario Kart, gamers don't care about Kart racers any more.

DKR2 would be a flop just like Tropical Freeze. It's a game only a small minority of nostalgic fans want. The average gamer will sneer at it.


No it wouldn't. Tropical Freeze flopped because it was too expensive and on the wrong platform. It would have flourished on the 3DS for $25. DKR2 would be a perfect game on the perfect platform for the perfect price. It has the brand power to sell very well, it would have a big first party marketing push, and it's a game that actually makes sense on a home console. It's ignorant to think that someone who liked Mario Kart 8 would just scoff at the idea that there may be another game like it that could also be fun to play.

"I don't need another shooter. I already have COD. I don't need another sidescroller. I already have SMB. I don't need another JRPG. I already have Final Fantasy. Fuck everything else. I only need to love one game in every genre to be satisfied."

It's stupid to think that anyone thinks that way. If you like something, and something else comes out that's similar and good, you'll buy it. If I like COD, and I see Battlefield looks fun, I'm getting Battlefield. If I like SMB, and I think DKC looks good, I'm getting DKC. If I like Final Fantasy, and I think Crono Trigger looks good, I'm getting Crono Trigger.

It has nothing to do with nostalgia. There's enough room for two first party kart racers on one platform. Mario Kart 8 will be one of the best selling games on the Wii U and is on the back of Mario Kart Wii, which you know sold to 35m+ people. You seriously think that Nintendo releasing ANOTHER game off the back of a reputation like that would garner anything less than excitement? Doesn't make sense. Will is do as well as MK8 or Smash 4? Obviously not. Will it do as well as WWHD or even NSLU? More than likely.

EDIT: I won't even start on how close-minded it is to think that a kart racer can't be developed to create a AAA experience, especially in the recent wake of MK8.

If DKR2 by Retro is announced, it will be a laughing stock among all but the most loyal Nintendo gamers and N64 nostalgics. It will be rightly decried as a waste of Retro's talents, as yet more proof that Nintendo is living in the past, as a hallmark of Nintendo's failure to diversify their software output beyond the same play-it-safe genres. It will fail to move systems. It will further diminish Retro's reputation.

Nintendo has to prioritze actual system sellers, or they will perish.