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Lucas-Rio on 02 April 2025
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Slownenberg said:
Lucas-Rio said:

It's a little more complicated.

MK is a game that everyone can pick up and plays. It itsn't necessarily always the reason of buying the console. The selling power of BOW was more important at time to kickstart the Switch.

It did not save the Wii U. At the moment it's the only asset to sell a 500€ console. They will need to fire more shots soon.

Yeah it has nothing to do with how many copies MK sells vs 3D Mario, that is fundamentally misunderstanding things.

It's the fact that people want a great single player game to play when they buy a system. MK World might offer a bit more from a single player perspective than typical Mario Karts because of the whole open world thing, but still, a new 3D Mario game it is not. People want to pop in an epic new single player game when they get a new system. MK8D has sold like twice as much as BotW and came out in the second month of the Switch, but BotW is the reason why everyone was buying a Switch, not Mario Kart. Mario Kart is the game you get to play with friends, not the game you get to play for hours and hours right when you first get a system, Zelda or Mario is the game that makes a Nintendo system a must buy at launch.

If no Mario had been the only big blunder it would have just been a big disappointment, but when combined with the sky high prices. I mean damn, Nintendo is gonna have to do some serious damage control or they better have a hell of a lineup coming this Summer and Fall. MP4, Poke Z-A, and Elden Ring are a start, if they can also get 3D Mario out for the holidays and a couple more big Nintendo games, along with some more huge third party games then by Christmas they may have made up for things a bit, as long as everyone likes to buy digital for $10 less expensive. Honestly I guess it is too late now but they should have included the camera with the system given the price of the system. The camera looks great for chat / multiplayer / streaming and that plus the MK bundle at only $50 extra would have mostly alleviated the shock from the $450/$500 price tag at least.

MP4 and Pokemon are playable on Switch, a console that everyone owns (unlike the Wii U at that time). The third party won't move a console I think. It is really Mario kart alone in the first few months and DK from July.

I think that Mario Kart can carry 5 millions quickly, maybe even 6-7 millions, but after the console may run out of steam unless it become popular and trendy like the Switch did and Nintendo would have to bet heavily on the holiday sales.

Nintendo said that there will not be long term shortages and I believe them after this reveal.