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zorg1000 said:
ps4tw said:

Barely any difference apart from basic skin changes and tweaks. You can take Mario Kart on the SNES and it's instantly recongisable as being the same game Mario Kart 8 is based on. That shows absolutely zero innovation over the last 25 years. 

 

Hahahahah, let's imagine how that board meeting would go down:

org1000: "We've had a stellar year, we've sold 80 million units of hardware!"

Nintendo shareholders: "You're down across all sales for all your hardware units"

org1000: "Yeah, but we sold stuff!"

CEO: "...you're fired"

If you think a decline across both hardware platforms for Nintendo doesn't matter, you clearly don't understand how business works. Nothing reassures stakeholders like declining sales!

Well yeah obviously, Mario Kart will always resemble Mario Kart regardless of how much they change it. By the way, how much has Gran Turismo changed in the last 20 years?

You are deflecting and taking what i said out of context, you said Nintendo is on the verge of death out of touch with their software, being able to sell 80 million units of hardware and being the biggest software provider in the business is a far cry from dead & out of touch regardless of having declined.

Gran Turismo has completely changed it's single player setup, changed its game engine several times, introduced damage and other features. Mario Kart instalments always do as little work as possible for each release, confusing "gimmick" with "unique selling point" e.g. Double-Dash, anti-grav etc If these features were something more than a gimmick, surely they would have been carried over to future games?

No, I'm neither deflecting or taking what you said out of context; you clearly just aren't aware of how your point isn't relevant. It doesn't matter that they sold a combined total of 80 million hardware units. What matters is that this generation has been the absolute worst for them, with their lowest selling handheld and the slowest ever selling home console. If you think those points can be ignored, you don't understand how businesses are valued as it shows their business plan and concept clearly have been complete failures.