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h2ohno on 22 January 2017
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bdbdbd said:
h2ohno said:

First person I've ever seen call MK8 'not a good game.'  Other than the battle mode it's easily considered one of the best in the series and far superior to the Wii version.

The rest voted with their wallets. MK Wii was the superior version. Only thing that 8 did better was graphics. 

And track design, number and variety of tracks, item balancing, 200 CC, online play, highlight sharing, ect.

Arguing sales as a measure of quality would lead to the conclusion that New Super Mario Brothers Wii is better than Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, Super Mario World, and Super Mario Brothers 3.

MK8 has double the attach rate of MKWii.  If you own a Wii U, you own MK8.

Wii U's biggest problem was marketing.  The general public thought it was an add-on for the Wii, not a system.  It's second biggest problem was one of the worst droughts in Nintendo's history in the first half of 2013, almost immeidately after launch.  It couldn't build any momentum after that, despite many considering it to have had the best lineup of the big 3 in 2014 and more great games like Splatoon and Mario Maker in 2015.  The Wii had so much momentum that when it started to get periodic droughts 2 years in it no longer mattered, and it's droughts were never as bad as the Wii U's early drought.