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Biggerboat1 on 12 February 2024
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curl-6 said:
Zippy6 said:

NSMB Wii had a staggered launch. Nov 15 in USA, Nov 20 in EU and Dec 3 in Japan. So slightly less than a month in USA, a month in EU and 2 weeks more than a month advantage in Japan for Wonder.

The sales are good, it's just not anything like the boost other series have enjoyed on Switch. While a lot of Series have had their best selling title on the Switch (Zelda, AC, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Party) it doesn't look like Wonder will compete with NSMB Wii/DS LTD figures to me.

Saying a title with 10m+ sales in a little over 2 months underperformed doesn't sit right. But I understand saying it didn't quite reach as high as they had expected/hoped.

For those that remember Tbone and his "bold predictions". He predicted 20m shipped first quarter. I don't know if we had a prediction thread on this site but Installbase users for example greatly overestimated Mario Wonder.

On the flipside of those predictions though were all the equally off-base claims that it underperformed as soon as the charts rolled in.

It had been 11 years since the last time a new 2D Mario came out, people simply forgot that they sell through long legs rather than huge openings.

zorg1000 said:
hellobion2 said:

Well now everyone is obsessing about joes memory

Which is stupid because it’s very easy to find numerous examples of Trump doing the exact same thing in just the last couple weeks. Or the fact that literally everybody does that exact same thing.

I’m 32 with no speech or learning disorders and frequently I call my children by the wrong name or stop mid-sentence and say umm while I think of a specific word or how I want to phrase things or have brain farts where I can’t think of answers to very basic things.

Anybody who claims these things don’t happen to them is a liar.

I'll admit that anyone can get someone's name wrong or can't find the exact words they're reaching for on occasion, but with Biden it's a whole other thing.

You shouldn't be relieved that a President made it to the end of an interview without making a gaff or seeming temporarily disoriented & this is exactly how I feel when listening to Biden... 

A politician should first & foremost be a good communicator (imo) & at this point I'd say Biden is probably worse than the average person on the street, which is a really sad state of affairs.

Poll after poll show people have an issue with his age & I think this is mostly due to his apparent mental decline. If he was able to communicate clearly, confidently & concisely I don't think his age would be anywhere near as significant a factor.

I think he & his team knew this 4 years ago, hence them promising a single term, which they've obvs u-turned on.

I listened to Marianne Williamson for 90 mins, and Gavin Newsom for 10 on Bill Maher & my God what a difference. The latter was in front of an audience and received numerous unprompted rounds of applause, as opposed to Biden who now relies on pity claps/laughs much of the time. Both MW & GN were both just so much more lucid, present & nimble.

I detest Trump & agree that he makes his own share of gaffs but he at least has the charisma to whip a crowd up & generate energy. Biden sucks any energy out of the room & replaces it with anxiety & honestly, pity.

If Biden dropped dead tomorrow I think exactly zero people would be particularly surprised. The democratic party are gaslighting the US public by pretending that the emperor has clothes on. It's really a horrible reflection on how the DNC operate.

I pray that Biden wins but if he doesn't it won't exactly take a political think tank to figure out what went wrong & that's what's so frustrating about the whole thing. It's like deliberately stepping on a rake over & over...