NX needs a sim-racer!

[freebs2]

fleischr said:

freebs2 said:

Forza Motorsport 4 - 4,6 million (85 million userbase)

Gran Turismo 6 - 3,5 million (85 million userbase)

Mario Kart 8 - 6,8 million (12 million userbase)

Also, how can you reinvent the wheel of a simulator? A simulator is supposed to be realistic by definition, can only do incremental changes on that route.

But that's my point exactly right? Nintendo clearly has the #1 racing game, but they don't have another title to ride it's coattails in any way. Nintendo makes the best racing game on the market. But they only make one racing game per gen, and for the kart genre only. Couldn't an equally good racer from a different mold, be massively successful?

No, my point is that exclusive racing sims aren't actually that much relevant as you believe if Mario Kart easily manages to outsell them even on a very niche console like the WiiU. And no, the success of Mario Kart doesn't translate into a viable market for racing sims since they have nothing in common with it.