| Ka-pi96 said: Minecraft was so successful because it was available to everyone. Everyone that would ever want to play it has either a PC, console, tablet or mobile to play it on so it could easily become successful. Mario Maker won't have anywhere near the same effect, only those with a Wii U will buy it. Word of mouth won't be as good either, for Minecraft when people heard about it all they had to do was pay about £15, wait a bit for a download and then they could start playing too. For Mario Maker people have to go out and get the console and the game for about £240, it's just not going to go as well. |
all excellent points and i will add: The You-tube communnitty and Minecraft embraced each other and it was/is mutually benneficial in a hue way. to this day some of the most watched yo tubers are primarily minecraft guys/girls. We know that won t happen w Mario Maker for a variety of reasons including Nintendo s You-tube policies.
There is no doubt IMO the fact Nintendo (Wii u and 3DS ) consoles are among the only platforms you can t play Minecraft will coe back to hayunt them in a big way. Nintendo has always "owned" the next generation of gamers but now Minecraft does (FAR more than Nintendo) Even kids who have not played Minecraft yet begin as fans by watching dozens of Minecaft videos and follow them religiously- Nintenod admittedly had difficulty developing games for the wii u early when it launched and to this day suffers major drooughts but still could not work w a 3rd party like Mojang to get Minecraft on its consoles even though vitually every other platform owner managed to do so .
So now Nintendo s primarily down to its long time loyal fans plus some remaining family gamers - They still have a part of the family gamig biz afterall just not the majority of it like they used to - So there is NO WAY Mario Maker will be anywere near as popular as Minecarft- It surely will not outsell Mario Kart 8 or Smash Bros-
