Hiku said:
bdbdbd said:
Well, MK8 would be good game if they'd fix the battle, online and mechanics. Tracks aren't that good either. Look, you don't go from a 30 million selling game to a seven million selling sequel if the game is any good. The driving mechanics are bad because the handling keeps changing all the time. The gameplay is so damn gimmicky; you start to hover, the vehicle handles differently, then you drive underwater, the vehicle handles differently, then you hover underwater, and the vehicle AGAIN handles differently. And it all happens during the same track. It's no fun. Then there are the tracks where you drive upside down for a while or sideways or whatever that makes you disorientated, not fun either.
Those games were the reason why Wii U failed. Gamecube to Wii was similar situation to Wii U to Switch. Gamecube games didn't move the Wii, and Wii U games will not move Switch. People rejected Wii U because it has no good games. Those games with potential to be good, are ruined by gimmicks with the controller.
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I haven't played MK8 so I don't have any opinions on how good it is. But regarding sales difference to Wii, Mario Kart on Wii was one of the most appealing titles to the casual/non-gamer crowd.
If you instead compare MK8's sales to a system bought by/for general gamers like the Gamecube and N64, the sales of MK8 are pretty much the same as MK Double Dash and MK64. And that's with half/a third of those system's instal base. It doesn't look to me like MK8's sales paint the picture of diminishing quality. On the contrary. The massive amount of casual gamers who bought Wii are gone. They went to mobile to play Candycrush, and they were not interested in the WiiU.
And I don't think the general consensus is that WiiU didn't have good games. Most of them got glowing reviews above anything else on other systems.
The issue I had was that it didn't have enough of them to warrant the high price of the system. Especially when I felt forced to buy a Pro Controller and possibly external harddrive space. And this is coming from someone who bought MK8 without buying a WiiU, because I expected things to change. More games, a Smash bundle/lowered price, etc. That didn't happen.
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The general consensus is that Wii U doesn't have good games, if it did, people would be buying them.
Ok, so if the non-gamers aren't buying Wii U's because the games are bad, why aren't the gamers getting Wii U's if the games are good? That's right, they aren't. Yes, no matter which way you look at it, game sales indicate of diminishing quality.
If you try to point out, that all the gamers are buying Wii U's, you can see how stupid it is to make these games/systems for gamers, if the size of the audience is sub-15 million.
