Well it has a boxart with a big Mario on the cover and the Wii U was suffering great droughts, so it was quite expected for it to do relatively well I guess. On the other hand, the reviews and sales of the series itself are gettin lower and that's good thing. Nintendo should take notes of this. They probably won't tho because they need to respect sensei Miyamoto's wishes even if they are complete bullshit.
''When Miyamoto-san, the father of Mario, asks us, ‘Could you make a game with only characters from the Mario family?’ I think it’s only natural for us to give it our best shot. In other words, we are not currently thinking about returning to old NPCs.'' - Kensuke Tanabe
You can feel the sadness in his words. Indirectly admitting they are stuck with the downgraded formula.







