1. It's not limited time, as far as I've ever heard. I couldn't imagine Nintendo NOT keeping that bundle going at least through the end of this year.
2. Yeah, nobody want "2d game like that", that's why that 2D game has sold over 4 million copies on a console with a "low install base". That is over half of that install base, by the way.
3. I think long-term, you will be able to point to MK8 as having helped to save the Wii U. NO single game was ever going to do it, and people expecting such (with each fucking release of Pikmin, Mario, DK, etc.), were just being naive and ignorant. But MK8 did what it needed to do, it gave a much needed shot in the arm to the system, and helped raise it's profile considerably. Long term, I think the legs of both MK8 the game, and it's help in boosting system sales, will be significant.







