Global Weekly, 29th April 2017 - Hardware

[SuperBott]

Mar1217 said:

taus90 said:

The awarness among the consumer is that after playing three level no one is buying the full game, only 5% of 78million downloads on SMARTPHONES.. so that's a negative awarness, IMO not something a game of mario's caliber would want. 

Yes He is an Iconic character so is Lara Croft, Sonic, Master Chief.. but how many casuals are buying console for those games and same logic applies for upcoming Crash Bandicoot, people who love crash are playstation fan and they already have a playstation 4.

Just answer me this,  which game would you rather rely for sales outside of nintendo fanbase,  Pokemon or mario?

Both are as much important than one another. Don't give me a false choice,we are talking about 10M + franchises.

Crash doesn't have the mass appeal that Mario has with the casual crowd and you just seem to forget that we're already 3.5 years into the PS4 life so of course the Crash fanbase would have a chance of being already installed. But in Mario's case, it ain't. The Switch has been out since only 3 months.

And you seem to forget about those that passed the WiiU era and played all these Mario games on the Wii, there's a lot of them.

I agree:

"As Nintendo's primary mascot, Mario is widely considered to be the most famous video game character in history, and has been called an icon of the gaming industry. The Mario series of video games has sold more than 510 million copies, making it the best-selling video game franchise. Mario was one of the first video game character inductees at the Walk of Game in 2005, alongside Link and Sonic the Hedgehog. Mario was the first video game character to be honored with a wax figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum in 2003. In the 1990s, a national survey found that Mario was more recognizable to American children than Mickey Mouse.  Mario has also been called the "most recognisable" figure in the gaming industry."