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tbone51 on 10 May 2015
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biglittlesps said:
tbone51 said:

"It's a new IP" Oh yeah so was many games released such as Wii Sports/Brain Age/Captain Toad/Pikmin/Luigi's Mansion/AC/Tomodachi Life/etc. They all failed too right?

 

Most of the titles you mentioned are for handheld where Nintendo is dominating so its easier to find success because of huge install base they have and market share and Wii sports is motionware title found success fot its motion features back then but failed with Wii U sports game. Captain toad is a familiar charecter milked in a budget indie game but not a fresh new IP entirely and not a AA scope game. Pikmin game times are very diferent to find success back hen which can proved with Pikmin 3 sales so even if they made that game now it wont sell like 2001 game.

You have to accept that times have chagned and these days new IPs to get success need a platform with install base, good marketing, excellent reviews and content that everyone expects (mostly online), otherwise it wont get success. For me Splatoon can sell average (LTD 500k min - 1m+ max in best case without bundles) as they already got issues in content and price ration so mostly reviews will be 75-80 due to that. 


Ok you completely changed the topic. We are talking new ips, even if LM/AC were more successful on HH, doesn't exclude them for being new ips on HC.

 Wii Sports: Doesn't matter for Motion Controls/Gimmicks/etc. It is the most successful New Video Game IP ever. And nothing ever came close. Mario Was only half of that and nothing comes close

Brain Age: HH IP, but still "Nintendo"

Captain Toad: New IP, Puzzle Elements. Very Successful

Pikmin: All HC games, all successful, especially the first game.

Luigi's Mansion: Completely New Genre, very successful

AC: New IP on the GCN. Major Success

Tomodachi Life: Successful in japan, One of the highest selling games of all time there. In the west, Europe shown one of the strongest legs of 2014, selling under 40k-60k FW now over 1mil 

 

That said you really are switching the entire conversation "Pikmin game times are very diferent to find success back hen which can proved with Pikmin 3 sales so even if they made that game now it wont sell like 2001 game." Seems like your grasping for straws here^