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AAA300 on 12 December 2014
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mZuzek said:
JayWood2010 said:

Mario is never ending but again its only a small fanbase if you look at the larger picture.  And this is where the problem is, that audience is the same audience who likes Star Fox, Pikmin, Zelda, etc.  All Nintendo games are focused on the same audience.  Its not very diverse.  They dont try to capture the other 100m's of people who like different stuff.

Umm, no, not really. In fact, from just the 4 franchises you mentioned, we get 2D platformers, 3D platformers, RPGs, kart racing games, party games, space shooters, RTS, adventure, open-world, arena fighting if we count SSB and more. And that's ignoring stuff like F-Zero, Metroid, Animal Crossing and so much more. Nintendo games are extremely diverse and have a lot of variety between them in every possible way.

This is what people dont relies is that nintendo is more diverse than xbox or sony. Not even most on this thread pay attention to this,but the real problem is advertising! Just look at Smash it has ads all over the place with a big advertising budget but were is this kind of support for Bayoneta, Hyrule Warriors or there 3rd party offerings. Games like metriod or star fox dont sell as much because nintendo trys to use word of mouth and they dont put much in to advertising!!! They use most of there budget on there big holiday game and it usually a mario or zelda title and they leave the rest of there titles for the year to die! Sony  and Xbox spend more to advertise all year round and even buy advertising rights to big games, examples - destiny for ps4 and cod for xbox.Wii sold so well because of word of mouth they didnt advertise the system much and it still sold well . When someone bought a wii they played with people and showed it off to all there friends the wiimote was amazing! The gamepad is amazing but for different reasons more so as a solo experience than the party of wii sports.They tried the same with wii u and thats the reasons for poor sales,the average consumer is causal the hardcore is in the minority for all systems ps4 and xbox one are getting causal buyers the ps2 was the wii of its generation people are stupid if they think there are over 100,000,000 hardcore gamers out there!!!! The original Metriod Prime on gamecube was the best selling of the 3 because it was the holiday game and was advertised all over for those who were alive back then will remember.The wii u is diverse and a better system game wise than ps4 and xbox one they just dont advertise it to the average buyer who needs product placement to make there decisions.Some still think wii u is still wii!!!!