The Switch is not another Wii U!

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ps4tw said:

zorg1000 said:

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 slowest 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. 

People like Mario Kart a lot more than Gran Turismo, so clearly those unique selling points aren't confusing. 

I only started playing the franchise since Double Dash, so I can't give my opinion on the older games, but the games change up enough to still be fresh:

- Double Dash introduced many new characters and character specific items and 2 players per kart. It also had a fun new battle mode with bob-omb blast.

- Mario Kart DS introduced remade retro courses alongside the new tracks, online, side missions and boss fights. 

- Mario Kart Wii introduced online splitscreen (loved this), motor bikes, wheelies, trick system for boosts and an extra drift boost for karts only. To me this game felt a bit too generic compared to the other Mario Kart games though. 

- Mario Kart 7 introduced coins, different kart parts to make your own unique vehicle and underwater and gliding sections. 

- Mario Kart 8 introduced anti-gravity, which allowed for some great course designs. It's also the first Mario Kart game to allow non-Mario characters like Link and the Inklings. There are also courses based on other Nintendo franchises like F-zero. They completely changed how battle mode works, but that change was terrible and they're fixing it now with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. This Deluxe edition will also feature a completely new battle mode that involves the piranha plant. No further details are known though. There is also a new 200 CC mode in this game, it really does make the game harder but also more interesting at the same time. 

Oh and the 3DS isn't their slowest selling handheld, the gameboy lasted for two generations and it sold around the same pace as the 3DS, even slower before Pokémon got released on it.