fatslob-:O said:
Peach_buggy said:
Actually i did check the Mario Party numbers and yes i was surprised. I had assumed it was Mario Party 8 that had sold 8.9m, when it was in fact Mario Party on DS. The fact that Mario party sells just as well on handhelds is actually detrimental to your argument though in that case. Seeing how Switch can be both it will appeal to both console and handheld-based MP purchasers. I'm actually quite interested in following sales trends for franchises and upon investigation, Mario Party sales seem to be almost exclusively tied to the userbase. The more sales a console gets, the more sales MP gets. So this makes me even more confident Mario Party can return to the 5m+ sales, big hitter threshold, as looking at the Switches sales trajectory, it seems much closer to the Wii than the 3ds. All this is immaterial though if the series is still crap. 10 was pretty bad tbh. (Can't comment on the 3ds titles though, as i don't own any. Definitely picking up the top 100 though!)
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@Not really, the only argument I made is that Mario Party sells regardless of whether it'd be home console or portable ...
When all is said and done Mario Party: Island Tour will be ~4x smaller in comparison to the last portable entry which was Mario Party DS while 3DS will only be 2x smaller in comparison to the DS ...
It's an undeniable fact that Mario Party declined whether home console or not though ...
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It only declined because of smaller userbase, although in the case of 9 and 10 it may have been because they were bad games but my point still stands. Get it onto a console with the potential of a much larger userbase and it will sell more. That seems to be the case here with MP and with the Switch i believe it has the potential to be a 5m seller again. That's assuming the games aren't crap tho!
