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killer7 on 09 February 2025
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Kyuu said:
killer7 said:

Their (Mario) strongest competitior ever was Sonic. Astro is a dwarf compared. And Nintendo even allowed that. Ok Sega is out of the Hardware business since nearly a quater century now but Sonic is still a "comoetitior somehow. If Nintendo is not afraid of Sonic (Even Sonic Racing is on Switch and Part 3 if you want to name it like that will follow and tgey do not seem to be afraid of it hurting Mario Kart) why should they be afraid of Astro? I would not even wonder if Sega announces Sonic Shuffle 2. Sure Nintendo would not want to launch Mario Party 11 on the same day but nobody can match Mario, neither Astro nor Sonic, at least saleswise. If you put Mario games as a whole franchise its total sales are even even higher than all GTA games combined!!

My brother in Christ, no one is comparing AstroBot to Mario's sales. Mario has no competition. And Sega's platforms as you said are done and dusted. So... what even is any of this about?

AstroBot is a Playstation reference galore. It's a great game, but it's also a fat ad to Playstation's history. So I paused and thought about that for a couple of seconds, big deal.

It's more similar to Mario and would be a bigger seller than any 3D or modern Sonic game if ported to a Nintendo platform. But none of this has anything to do with the little point that I made.

Of course Astro Bot on Switch (2) would make people who are interested buying a Switch probably. And it would give it a higher value if Astro Bot was given an audience of 150 million+ users.