So Paper Mario Color Splash is a huge flop

[Cloudman]

LuckyTrouble said:

Cloudman said:
I expected Color Splash to sell poorly, and that just makes me sad, since the game is quite excellent. And it makes me more sad people saying the poor sales are deserved, as the game deserved a lot more sales than it got.


Anyways, the main reasons this sold poorly is the Wii U being on its death bed, and the game not being what fans want, apparently. It really isn't bad, far from it.

There are a lot of games that aren't bad as a game, like Dead Space 3, but are bad for being part of the series they are in, like Dead Space 3. If they had found a way to do Color Splash without abusing Paper Mario and the fanbase that has been beat over the head with the wrong type of game three times now, perhaps the game would have sold better, even if the Wii U was dying. I honestly would have bought a Wii U if this was a real Paper Mario game.

It sounds like it does a lot right, but the fact that we are five games deep in the Paper Mario series and that we haven't gotten anything like the original since the second game, TTYD on the Gamecube, is enough to start permanently turning people away. Nintendo has shattered the trust of multiple fanbases now, with Paper Mario hardly being the first. Honestly, how long can one company remain deaf to the games people want? It's like the series that have the loudest and most dedicated fans get trashed and used for experimentation or lower budget filler titles. It sucks, and it shows one hell of a disconnect between Nintendo and their dwindling overall fanbase.

I agree there are games I agree are good on their own, but not as part of their series, but Color Splash is not one of those. I find it to be a great game, just overallm and def one fitting the Paper Mario name.

And I have an issue with companies listening to what fans want because it would just be stifling overall, creatively. There wouldn't be more experimentation, more interesting ideas, and probably wouldn't be enjoyable for developers, creatively. Also, it's just hard to tell what people want when sometimes they don't even know what they want. If game series continued being the same thing over and over, there runs the risk of being stale. I've had issues with games being weak in their series because of this reasons, later Megaman games being weak because it was more of the same, as well as the New Super Mario Bros games.

I think it's great Nintendo continues experimenting with their games, as they try out new ideas, but shake the formula of standard genres.