Pokemon Stars Confirmed? (gamestop)

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mountaindewslave said:

your logic is awful

selling 7 million copies of a game on a system that has like 13 million owners is an INSANE attach rate, especially when considering that there haven't been THAT many Mario Kart system bundles

People have rated Mario Kart 8 as one of the best games in the series and even debated that it may be one of the best looking games this gen. Its not that Mario Kart Wii was so great that caused it to sell that many copies, its that the Wii install base was gigantic compared to the Wii U. Even so, proportionately Mario Kart 8 is selling at a wayyyy better attach rate than Mario Kart Wii did, which would suggest the fans prefer it

if another Nintendo system sells 100 million systems you'll see the next Mario Kart game have insane sales too

 

The reason the Wii U failed was because it was poor conceptually. I have NEVER heard someone claim that Nintendo's main IPs being mediocre was the issue with the Wii U. Mario 3D Land (albeit not my favorite) was rated solidly, Smash and Mario Kart rated fantastically, etc.

maybe a LACK of some of Nintendo's IPs hurt the Wii U (Zelda, Metroid, F Zero, a good Animal Crossing, a Pokemon home console game, etc. missing). 

 

the reality is though it was the concept of the system that failed. The majority of casual gamers and even a lot of old school Nintendo fans do not want a big tablet controller thing in their lap that they need to look down at. It raised the price of the system to quite high for what it was and didn't really add much to the experience 

Those games did not sell Gamecube. The consept of a second screen isn't bad (even if the price is hard to justify), what's bad, is that the screen is forced for some secondary function in almost all of the games - which is a software problem, not hardware.

Attach rate doesn't matter. Sales do. High attach rate only tells there are not many games to buy on a system.

People bought Wiis to play Mario Kart, not the other way around. Fans do not prefer Mario Kart 8, which is proven by its sales.

The casual gamers play largely what's popular at moment, it is the core audience of the industry. This is the people that play FIFA and COD.