quickrick said:
umm being port is a huge benefit, because mario kart can come out so early in the system life time, and there are very little options, plus most who owned wiiu were hardcore nintendo fans i'm sure most would double dip for a portable version, not to mention the extra modes and 1080p. zelda on wii was a GC port yet it destroyed skyward in sales, also mario galaxy came out when wii install base was samll yet it out sold mario galaxy 2 by a huge amount. when ever mario kart 9 comes out it won't outsell mario kart 8. |
Galaxy 2 is different though. It's a sequel to a Wii exclusive game. Mario Kart 9 will be a brand new Mario Kart. Also you have to look at surrounding market conditions. Skyward Sword is especially glaring. Twilight Princess generated an obscene amount of hype in the build up to release, was a launch title, and Nintendo's marketing early on was extremely aggressive and prolific. By contrast, when Skyward Sword launched the hype was pretty low key, the reception to previews much less positive, and Nintendo's marketing in 2011 wasn't so much low key as borderline non-existent. Nintendo really had 3 big releases to bookend the Wii's life: Last Story, Xenoblade, and Skyward Sword. None of them were well advertised, two of them completely unadvertised. Nintendo's marketing in the last years of the Wii's life was notoriously low key. Plus, Skyward Sword launched *after* the Wii U's announcement.
