Some games do but it seems like Nintendo titles have a stronger-than-usual ability to keep selling in good numbers long after the initial release date

An over hyped Craptivision funded casual mainstream dude bro Call of Gears of Halo type online shooter selling more that a good niche VIDEO GAME call me shocked.

Mario Kart 8 will still be 59.99 in a month when Destiny is another 19.99 has been selling used at Gamestop for $4.

First time I've heard someone call Mario Kart niche

This is just an acknowledge of an impressive sales feat, if you check the OP I also mention titanfall and Watchdogs PS4. Nothing against Mario Kart, just weighing previous expectations against whats occuring currently ;)

Many people would now say this was obviously gonna happen one being multiplat so more coverage etc, but if this convo was going on back in march the tone would be V different. 

Well Nintendo in general is still pretty niche, sticking to their roots with the original video game playing target audience while everyone else is busy trying to make realistic reality simulators and cater to the mainstream.

The fun I have playing Borderlands is much different than the fun I have playing Nintendo games.

The Nintendo games remind me of NES, SNES , just pure no excuses fun, and why I started playing video games in the first place.

Nintendo's market is the people today who would have bought a NES, whereas your typical flavor of the month realistic online shooter player would have ignored NES as a nerdy kids toy and only plays video games now because they are cool.  But only cool mature games of course. 

Hard to explain, it's just different...like gamers vs casuals.  

In that context yeah Nintendo games as a whole are niche.  Your average I have every version of call of duty player today (eg 90% of the market) would not buy Mario kart or anything that might be associated with "kiddy".

8 million or more is my bet for mk8 lifetime sales.

toot1231 said: bubblegamer said: spemanig said: Ka-pi96 said: Makes sense for a better game to sell more Destiny is barely even a good game, let alone a better game than Mario Kart 8. I dunno. Destiny may not be a great game, but it's certainly better than MK8. Most gamers don't even like Mario. Not to be rude but, this is hands down one of the dumbest statements i've seen on this site.

This is not a rude statement, this is an estute observation and appropriate comment on your part.  

The "most gamers don't like Mario" is just a troll trying to get Nintendo fans riled up.  As I posted in the other Destiny thread, i have played over 60 hours of Destiny and continue to play it to this day, but basically every iteration of Mario short of "Hotel" is leagues better then Bungies latest offering.

It'll probably actually be well past 10 million by the end of this year. We're only beginning the Wii U's peak period.

That VGChartz Number is WAAAAAY off what the actual sales number is for MK8. We don't even have official Nintendo numbers

One game will have 75% of it's total sales within the first 3 months after that it will be sold at max 19$... the other will sell for years and years at ordinary price 49$ over and over again... yeah nice clickbait thread.