firebush03 said:
Exactly this. MarioKart 8 was on Wii U and NS1, yet only one of these two systems was greatly successful. If MK8DX was pivotal to NS1ms success, then why didn’t Wii U systems move for its entire 3y run following the launch of MK8? And it’s not like BotW where the system had literally been discontinued by the time the game released. |
The Switch and MK8D would have been massively successful regardless of BotW. The Wii U failed because it was expensive, weak, stationary, had a relatively poor game library, and Nintendo was still supporting 3DS which was still getting all these Pokemon games among countless other titles.
BotW obviously contributed to its success, but not nearly as much as MK8D. MK8D by itself is also insignificant when compared to all the combined factors that made the console a huge success. Wii U wouldn't have sold tens of millions more units if BotW was released exclusively on it. Instead, the game would have failed to exceed 8 million copies sold, because the console was fundamentally poor and nothing could save it.
