Nintendo's reluctance to build new IP's is killing their brand

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animegaming said:

considering how much both Mario Kart DS (22.94) and Mario Kart Wii (34.64 million) have its kinda hard to top both considering how considering to the gamedatabase on this site there have only been a total of 19 games to have ever sold over 20 million copies and also Mario Kart 8 is just right behind 64 for the third highest selling entry in the series so it aint really a decline 

I don't really subscribe to the view that Wii sales should just be seen as some anomaly and all Nintendo should hope for is selling ~15 million consoles and accepting that their franchises will just constantly decline in sales. As a publicly traded company Nintendo can't accept that. If they're not achieving growth, let alone undergoing massive decline the company will be taken over and die. And as a Nintendo fan I don't want that to happen.

MK8 will probably end up selling a quarter of what MKWii sold. That is catastrophic. As I said in the OP, there is a thousand reasons the Wii U is a flop, but I think the lack of new IP to get new customers on board is definitely a key one.