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potato_hamster on 03 November 2015
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spemanig said:
zorg1000 said:

Nope not really, but u and others are the ones saying Miitomo will fail because nobody cares about Miis. I haven't really seen anybody here say Miitomo will succeed because of Miis.


I think Miitomo will succeed and I think Mii's will be an integral part of that. The Wii can be catagorized as a fad. Motion gaming can too. Miis, as an IP, were not a fad. People didn't stop liking Miis. They stopped liking games they were originally being associated with. Others are still successful. Tomodachi Life hitting over 4m isn't a fad. That's a smashing success on a platform with 54m users. That's nearly 1/10 3DS owners. For a game that is literally just about watching Miis do random shit.

Will they succeed purely because of Miis? Obviously not. Where Nintendo smart to use Miis instead of another IP? Absolutely. Like I said, Miis have a ubiquity that no other Nintendo franchise has, and the IP has touched hundreds of millions of people in a positive way. That isn't hyperbole. That's factual, recorded, cited information. Over 100m people. Going with Miitomo first was the smart way to go.

Over 100 million wiis sold, how many of the the people would know what the word "Mii" means today? How many of them created more than one? How many of them actually care about Miis in any way today? How many of them bought a Wii U or a 3DS? We actually have no idea, but assumptions are awesome, right?

But one thing we do know based on the Wii U (since practically no one but die-hard Nintendo fans bought it) - Die hard Nintendo fans buy well-made games developed by Nintendo in large quantities and practically nothing else. The success of Tomodachi Life is in no way an obvious an indicator of the mass appeal of Miis, it could literally just be yet another indicator of Nintendo fans buying a well-made Nintendo game.  it could have sold well in spite of the inclusion of Miis for all we know.

But hey, want to know a Nintendo franchise that actually does have estabilished mass-appeal, no doubt about it? Mario. But that's far less intelligent of a move then publishing a mii maker and chat program - of course.