Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sells 459,000 copies on launch day in US, fastest-selling Mario Kart in the US.

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Soundwave said:

irstupid said:

 

Rabid older fanbase gets software sales more quickly? How so?

Nintendo games never pull out first week sales numbers that other big games like Call of Duty or Madden or Final Fantays or ect. do.  And I woudl consider most of them as rabid younger teen gamers. They pull like 4 million week one. Nintedo may pull huge numbers for games, but it always takes years to do.

They have more disposable income and are more well ... hardcore about their games. It's the same thing with certain Amiibos ... it was 30 year old men buying those, not kids. Same thing with the NES Classic ... virtually all adults many of whom were willing to pay 2-3x more than the sticker price. 

Nintendo's fanbase in general, while it will always have a section of kids in it is majority 20-40 year olds I would say. 

That does not explain why non nintendo games sell like 5x more launch week than Nintendo games.

If Nintendo gamers are all old rabid nestolgia gamers with huge disposable incomes, why do they not sell as much as the teeny mature games do on other systems?