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MegaManX on 12 October 2014
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tbone51 said:
MegaManX said:


MKWii sold nearly 35 million, a quarter of which is about 8.5 million, and after 4 months MK8 has sold 2.7 million, I doubt it's going to sell 6 million more, I'd be surprised if it hits 4 million.  It's barely in the top 30 after many users said it would remain in or near the top 10 through the holidays.  So that is very catastrophic, personally I feel that Smash will sell worse considering Brawl sold only a third of MKWii and with the 3DS version scratching some itches, I don't see the newest Smash outselling MK8.  


lol watttttt? You have a good point.... Its only been 4months, It has one of the best legs in video game history (mario kart), its not going to stop selling intill 2020. It'll hit over 4mil by years end, it hasnt had a holiday which is where nintendo games gets most of their sales from :)

The only way MK8 is still selling in 2020 is on another Nintendo console, No Nintendo console except the original NES lasted 8 years or more let alone this one, hell they only really supported the Wii (their best console) for about 5 years, they will not be printing more copies of MK8 on the WIi U 6 years from now.  I'm not talking about 1 game or some occasional third party game, I'm talking about really supporting their console, not following it up with another console and concentrating on new games for just that one.  

It's possible that MK8 can have a very successful holiday season, currently it's doing 25K a week, it will get an unknown surge after Smash more than a month from now and leading up to Christmas but it's not going to double or triple or get within a quarter of MKWii sales and that speaks to the problem, we are arguing over whether a game will even hit a quarter of what the previous game sold.  There is a lot more real competition this holiday season from MS and Sony than last year, with lots of games worth making the jump to people like me who want a few more games they want before they make the switch.  

Also MKWii made 31 of it's 34 million sales in the first 3 years, it's pretty obvious that game sales are going to decline more as time goes on, and on a poorly selling console like the Wii U, sales for MK8 are going to remain than what they could have been on a better marketed and designed console.  

Also I'm not counting bundle or digital sales in my original prediction for MK8 because we are never privy to what digital sales are so I'm speaking strictly in terms of physical media like what this site tracks.  And comparing software sales with consoles that didn't have optional digital sales with ones that do with not knowing those numbers is no fun.