Mario Party 9?

The Mario party games were bankable even before the "Wii casual explosion."   I mean, Wario Ware is kinda similiar but it's not even made by the same company, Mario Party being made by Hudson.

Did Hudson oddly choose to stop making mario party games?  Put it off for some weird reason?  Nintendo just decide to stop going to them due to the competition for Wario Ware?  Nintendo demanding more of a cut.

It's very odd thing.

its really for sure , but its nice to see the series to take a break , cuz every year , starts to get old ... i waiting to see Mario Party 9 with on-line and Wii speak support this E3 .

I'm not sure either. There were at least 3 Mario Parties per console and then only one Wii entry. It sold 7 million and got no sequel. Thing is, one Mario Party could've rightfully eclipsed all the other corny "____ Party" games in sales and brought their saturation to an end much faster. MP9 could've been "the party to end all parties but never came up".

What I found weirder is that we got a sequel to Galaxy 1 before we got a sequel to Twilight Princess.

Hudson is doing something called Ooops! Prank Party for the Wii.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/108/1082679p1.html

Mike from Morgantown

^^ I'd much rather have a new Mario Party. I was actually playing MP8 the other day and i really wish i had some new content to play.

the series seems to have ended it's yearly tradition with MP8, i think it would be great if it would continue in a bi-yearly manner starting with MP9, would be cool if it was announced at this E3, i guess i'm kind of expecting it (though there's no actual reason to do so)

I think the deal with Mario Party is Nintendo figured they had oversaturated the property. Obviously they were releasing one a year and it was easy to see how slowly the sales of the game were progressively worse. For instance here is all of the sales:

Mario Party (1st on N64)- 2.70 million
Mario Party 2- 2.50 million
Mario Party 3- 1.91 million
Mario Party 4 (first on GC)- 2.47 million
Mario Party 5- 2.08 million
Mario Party 6- 1.63 million
Mario Party 7- 1.53 million
Mario Party 8 (first on Wii)- 7.06 million

Mario Party Advance- 0.28 million
Mario Party DS- 6.53 million

Trend wise up until Wii and DS, the titles had usual sales for a once a year game. First one on a system would sell the best and then decrease in sales along the way, especially considering userbase was never growing that fast for N64 or GC. However, Wii and DS first versions released to bigger success, mainly due to being a premiere title when the Wii version released and the DS version feeding off of it later. They hit bigger sales and Nintendo opted against releasing another one the next year.

Why would they do that? Well it's the same approach they take with the Mario Kart games. Mario Kart games are long-term sellers and usually system-movers. If they were to release one very often, it not only saturates sales of the older title but it saturates the viability of the game itself. There are certain genres out there such as racers and party games, that just don't have the ability to change as much as other genres. Release less titles and keep the "freshness" higher.

I think this is something Nintendo is attempting with Mario Party franchise. So far the DS and Wii versions saw huge success without an infringing successor behind them and were able to sell over a long period of time. Might not see another Mario Party game until the next systems or later in the Wii/DS cycle.

Makes me think Nintendo upped the Mario Liscensing fee.  Or did Nintendo just pay hudson to make the games.... I suppose noone knows.  Me I liked the Gamecube Mario Party games a lot, didn't play 8 because of supposed control issues just figured "Eh i'll get 9 if i feel like it"  No 9 so far though.

Culdcept saga reminded me of it... it's another boardgame type hyrbid... but instead of minigames it's cardgames.

I thought Hudson Soft was a second party of Nintendo?

You're claiming people would look at a hit and go "We can't do better than that. Let's stop"? The opposite would happen. It would have renewed the effort to sell party games.

There'll be another Mario Party this or next year.

They're just saving mario party 10 for the Wii two.