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curl-6 on 01 November 2014
fatslob-:O said:
curl-6 said:

Wii U hardware still hasn't returned to its pre-MK8 baseline after 20 weeks, despite a three month game  drought. This game and Smash will make it well positioned as a family/secondary console, but $299 is too much to ask of either of those audiences, so a lower price will help. That's what I reckon, anyway.

A secondary console ? Most of the Userbase likely has it as their primary console ... 

$300 isn't a lot to ask for when that's been the sweet spot for years! Hell, if anything the PS4 showed to us that the sweet spot can also be $400! 

Sweet spots are different depending on the audience. Families and secondary console buyers won't pay as much as hardcore gamers/primary console buyers in general.



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fory77 on 01 November 2014
EricFabian said:
fory77 said:
EricFabian said:
I can't the problem with MK8. Why is so hard to believe that it will outsell DD? Is not like Wii U magically will stop selling

It could. I'm not saying it will... but it could. It's a small chance... but it's still a chance.


so PS4, X1 and 3DS, hell even Vita. So what's the point?

No point really. I tried to make a joke, didn't work and decided to post something anyway.



RCTjunkie on 01 November 2014

That would be nice, but I'm not sure. As long as it's not the worst-selling one. It would be a shame if the one that the most work was put into and is amongst the top Mario Karts ever sold the least well.



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Lonely_Dolphin on 01 November 2014

Yeah it definitely could. The DLC will only help keep the game relevant.



curl-6 on 01 November 2014
RCTjunkie said:
As long as it's not the worst-selling one. It would be a shame if the one that the most work was put into and is amongst the top Mario Karts ever sold the least well.

That's almost certainly not going to happen, it should outsell Super Circuit with ease.



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garretslarrity on 01 November 2014

It will. Mario Kart never stops.



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Spottswoode on 01 November 2014

I believe so. The Wii U has got a good life ahead of it with great games coming. It`s probably the best Mario Kart i`ve played since SNES. 



fatslob-:O on 01 November 2014
curl-6 said:

Sweet spots are different depending on the audience. Families and secondary console buyers won't pay as much as hardcore gamers/primary console buyers in general.

You do realize that the both the PS4 and XB1's userbases aren't filled with hardcore gamers, right ? 

Those customers are much like you and I ... They just want to play good games too like we do but most of all they'll cave in once a game they want comes out. The family audience doesn't JUST belong to Nintendo, if anything that belongs to PS4 more than EVER much like how the PS1 or the PS2 did! 

Your probably wondering what I mean by the above but a platform's price is just a barrier to the games and $300 has NEVER been the issue according to the success of the PS1 or PS2, the problem that lies within the WII U are it's GAMES or lack thereof! 



curl-6 on 01 November 2014
fatslob-:O said:
curl-6 said:

Sweet spots are different depending on the audience. Families and secondary console buyers won't pay as much as hardcore gamers/primary console buyers in general.

You do realize that the both the PS4 and XB1's userbases aren't filled with hardcore gamers, right ? 

Those customers are much like you and I ... They just want to play good games too like we do but most of all they'll cave in once a game they want comes out. The family audience doesn't JUST belong to Nintendo, if anything that belongs to PS4 more than EVER much like how the PS1 or the PS2 did! 

Your probably wondering what I mean by the above but a platform's price is just a barrier to the games and $300 has NEVER been the issue according to the success of the PS1 or PS2, the problem that lies within the WII U are it's GAMES or lack thereof! 

The current PS4/X1 userbase is not families buying for their kids, it's 18-40 year old males buying for themselves based on hype.

A $299 price is a barrier to much of MK's audience.



Lonely_Dolphin on 01 November 2014
curl-6 said:
fatslob-:O said:
curl-6 said:

Sweet spots are different depending on the audience. Families and secondary console buyers won't pay as much as hardcore gamers/primary console buyers in general.

You do realize that the both the PS4 and XB1's userbases aren't filled with hardcore gamers, right ? 

Those customers are much like you and I ... They just want to play good games too like we do but most of all they'll cave in once a game they want comes out. The family audience doesn't JUST belong to Nintendo, if anything that belongs to PS4 more than EVER much like how the PS1 or the PS2 did! 

Your probably wondering what I mean by the above but a platform's price is just a barrier to the games and $300 has NEVER been the issue according to the success of the PS1 or PS2, the problem that lies within the WII U are it's GAMES or lack thereof! 

The current PS4/X1 userbase is not families buying for their kids, it's 18-40 year old males buying for themselves based on hype.

A $299 price is a barrier to much of MK's audience.


I don't actually care about the argument itself, but you guys can't say these things as fact. There's no way to truely know who buys or doesn't buy what and why.