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Do you like this idea?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 339 36.93%
 
No... Retro should do something else 281 30.61%
 
Only if they can do it an... 261 28.43%
 
dat fur... 35 3.81%
 
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Frogger on 22 July 2014
KLXVER said:
Its not that I dont want them to make it. Its because of how big the project sounds. This would probably be their big holiday 2016 release and Im not sure many people would be excited for it.

Last year was 3D World, this year is SSB and next year its probably Zelda. Those franchises you release during the holidays. Not some second-rate Kart game...


Mario Kart 8 is Nintendo's biggest console franchise, and that was released in the "spring." No reason this can't too. Also, DKR is not a second rate kart game. The original was better than MK64. By a lot. 



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AZWification on 22 July 2014
Blob said:
I really don't like the sound of riding animal buddies, don't know why, I just don't..... Give me the plane, kart and hovercraft again thanks. The best part about DKR was the fact that you hd 3 ways to race on each track depending on what you preferred/felt like.

After doing some research, I've found out that riding animal buddies was first supposed to appear in Donkey Kong Racing for the GameCube, but the game got cancelled due to Rare getting bought my MS..



                
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curl-6 on 22 July 2014
spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

Oh please, were you even on this site in 2009 when MH3 launched? It moved plenty of hardware. As for TP, you only have to look at the hype for it among the gamers who dismissed WW.


Yet WW still sold 4.6m on the GCN. Hype is nothing but a crowd cheer in cases like that. TP sold because of motion controls during the dawn of the Wii, not because it was "gritty." A WW lookalike would have done the same.

When Wii got a resounding 100K boost that dropped back to below the Wii's base line two weeks later when Tri launched in Japan, it's most successful area. So basically 100-150K extra japanese people bought a Wii for Monster Hunter Tri. When it came out in the west, the Wii numbers dropped when Tri came out for the next two weeks. The Wii sold less with MHT.

100K WW for a console that went on to sell over 100m is not "plenty of hardware." Don't get excitable.

A WW lookalike would have done nothing of the short. No toon Zelda since has. There was simply no alternative when WW came out.

Tri became one of the main reasons for Japanese gamers to buy Wii, which by the way went up 300% on Tri's release and did not drop to its prior Japanese level for 5 weeks, not 2, not to mention many Wii purchases prior to Tri were in preparation for it. Hell, even a demo of it with Monster Hunter G boosted Wii sales 36% months earlier.

Like Nintendo, you can bury your head in the sand and sing "lalalala gamers only want cartoon games lalalala" but that won't make it true. Look around you. Times have changed.



Blob on 22 July 2014
AZWification said:
Blob said:
I really don't like the sound of riding animal buddies, don't know why, I just don't..... Give me the plane, kart and hovercraft again thanks. The best part about DKR was the fact that you hd 3 ways to race on each track depending on what you preferred/felt like.

After doing some research, I've found out that riding animal buddies was first supposed to appear in Donkey Kong Racing for the GameCube, but the game got cancelled due to Rare getting bought my MS..


Yeah I remember seeing photos and thinking that they looked nothing like DKR. Move along 12 years and the ideas still disspointing to me, but ill wait and see.



leedlelee on 22 July 2014

I agree with you, Blob...
I loved the hover craft...



Have a nice day...

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AZWification on 22 July 2014
Blob said:


Yeah I remember seeing photos and thinking that they looked nothing like DKR. Move along 12 years and the ideas still disspointing to me, but ill wait and see.

Eh.. I am going to be optimistic and say that the end-result is not going be bad!



                
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Frogger on 22 July 2014
curl-6 said:

A WW lookalike would have done nothing of the short. No toon Zelda since has. There was simply no alternative when WW came out.

Tri became one of the main reasons for Japanese gamers to buy Wii, which by the way went up 300% on Tri's release and did not drop to its prior Japanese level for 5 weeks, not 2, not to mention many Wii purchases prior to Tri were in preparation for it. Hell, even a demo of it with Monster Hunter G boosted Wii sales 36% months earlier.

Like Nintendo, you can bury your head in the sand and sing "lalalala gamers only want cartoon games lalalala" but that won't make it true. Look around you. Times have changed.


I don't know where you got you're MHT numbers from, because that's all completely untrue.



curl-6 on 23 July 2014
spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

A WW lookalike would have done nothing of the short. No toon Zelda since has. There was simply no alternative when WW came out.

Tri became one of the main reasons for Japanese gamers to buy Wii, which by the way went up 300% on Tri's release and did not drop to its prior Japanese level for 5 weeks, not 2, not to mention many Wii purchases prior to Tri were in preparation for it. Hell, even a demo of it with Monster Hunter G boosted Wii sales 36% months earlier.

Like Nintendo, you can bury your head in the sand and sing "lalalala gamers only want cartoon games lalalala" but that won't make it true. Look around you. Times have changed.


I don't know where you got you're MHT numbers from, because that's all completely untrue.

I got them from right here, VGChartz. http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40027/Japan/



baloofarsan on 23 July 2014
curl-6 said:
spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

A WW lookalike would have done nothing of the short. No toon Zelda since has. There was simply no alternative when WW came out.

Tri became one of the main reasons for Japanese gamers to buy Wii, which by the way went up 300% on Tri's release and did not drop to its prior Japanese level for 5 weeks, not 2, not to mention many Wii purchases prior to Tri were in preparation for it. Hell, even a demo of it with Monster Hunter G boosted Wii sales 36% months earlier.

Like Nintendo, you can bury your head in the sand and sing "lalalala gamers only want cartoon games lalalala" but that won't make it true. Look around you. Times have changed.


I don't know where you got you're MHT numbers from, because that's all completely untrue.

I got them from right here, VGChartz. http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40027/Japan/

MHT had a huge impact on Wii sales in Japan.

Not so much in USA despite marketing efforts.

http://venturebeat.com/2010/04/28/monster-hunter-tri-takes-over-san-francisco-subway-station/



Frogger on 23 July 2014
curl-6 said:

I got them from right here, VGChartz. http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40027/Japan/


I was looking at WW sales. Excuse me.