Rumour: The Major Switch Title This Holiday Season Could Have "Tyres" In It

[Pemalite]

Nu-13 said:

Pemalite said:

Well... I don't have to elaborate.
But to me it seems people are happy for Nintendo not to invest in a big follow up title for their current console.

Find it odd how more games is seen as a bad thing in some instances.

True. But the Switch seems to get allot of WiiU ports anyway... Mario Kart, Breath of the Wild, Smash Brothers, Super Mario Brothers U, Tropical Freeze... I think it's Nintendo's attempt on getting a return on their game development investments from that failed console.

It would be redundant for nintendo. Why would they waste MK9 on the switch when MK8D is selling better than any exclusive MK?

Because I am pretty sure allot of those "sales" are coming from free Console Bundles.

And who is to say they wouldn't sell 10's of millions of more copies of Mario Kart?

freebs2 said:

TruckOSaurus said:
I'm not getting the "it will cannibalize the sales of their best title" arguement. MK8D has maybe a 10m left in it but MK9 would easily sell over 20m and MK8D won't completely stop selling so from a business perspective there's a greater sales potential in releasing MK9 than just letting MK8D do its thing.

You've awnsered yourself. MK8 may still have about 10m sales worth of R.O.I., why would you waste it?

Plus, if we agree MK9 could potentially be 20m title why would you release it today? You can keep it and "use" it later to boost sales of the next system, right in the early years.

If I had to release a new kart game right now, I would make one with a different flavour, like a Diddy Kong Racing sequel. This way you can meet the demand for a new Kart racing game, while giving the userbase a reason the own both titles and, at the same time, keeping MK9 as the ace for the next console.

Or they can release a Mario Kart 10 for the next console?