Oh the irony! Me love some ready-made joke posts

If you've played all Mario Karts, could you just tell me how they excactly are the same? You obviously have a kart, drive on a track and there's Mario in it. But you have also to keep in mind that you yourself claim at the same time that Call of Duty have innovated/changed during the years (more than Mario Kart, as I take it) and say that same IP doesn't make it a same game. There's a lot obvious flaws with your logic, but maybe we'll get to them later.

Damn. Well, 09 was already pretty late for PS2 and Madden isn't that popular around here, as people were picking up the PS2 version of the game from the bargain bin.

Okay, so how has Mario Kart changed in the last 10 years? Call of Duty changed its characters, settings, entire health system, storyline's, constantly evolving MP modes, introduced zombies with CoD: WaW etc. Compare Mario Kart 64 to the latest instalment and they are practically identical. Compare CoD 1, 4 and Infinite Warfare and apart from being FPS', they have almost nothing in common.

What about this generation? The Wii U was the single worst selling console ever if you look at sales rates, and the 3DS has been their worst selling handheld (outsold by the DS, Advance, Color and Gameboy), so I'm not sure what you're getting at, unless it's "Nintendo are doing badly and clearly need to rethink their strategy". 

"A sizeable selection of high-quality 3rd party titles" - considering it doesn't have the essentials in there, I wouldn't consider it to be sizeable. Also, let's not digress, the Switch will not have such a selection, meaning it'll suffer from exactly the same issue as the Wii U did; appeal to Nintendo fans, a dying breed, and no one else. 

Every Mario Kart has new characters, new karts, new stages, new power ups, new mechanics.

I said they sold 80 million units of hardware and over 200 million units of 1st party software this generation, it doesnt matter if its a decline, it shows there is still a large audience for Nintendo and their games.

By that logic, GBA, DS & 3DS didnt have strong 3rd party support either.

You do realise saying "irony" isn't an argument?

Same characters, same weapons, same  gameplay with very little difference - drift, collect randomised weapons, even the same CC classes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmHiQJy4oRw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amz4sLmrRdI

Call of Duty 1 to 4 and Infinite Warfare are not recognisable other than being in the same genre. Do you realise that CoD 1 had health packs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o61KuTD36y8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VTB0Sw2_nE 

Yep, the Wii 3rd party support isn't as strong as is made out to be when you take a closer look at the actual games. 

Yes, I can see you haven't played Mario Kart.

I don't know if the videos were to prove your point or to prove you wrong, but the CoD videos looked you just had updated graphics and the WW2 skins switched to futuristic/modern ones. 

Of course the third party support was good. How many Wii third party games have you played?

Yes, I can see you haven't played Mario Kart.

I don't know if the videos were to prove your point or to prove you wrong, but the CoD videos looked you just had updated graphics and the WW2 skins switched to futuristic/modern ones. 

Of course the third party support was good. How many Wii third party games have you played?

Are you kidding? The Mario kart videoss have almost nothing different about them other then one has better graphics. Call of Duty isn't even recognisable as one has health kits and an entirely different gameplay mechanics, storyline, weapons, characters, not to mention no online play etc, which brings in kill streaks and other ground breaking MP ideas. Mario Karts hasn't done anything revolutionary since the first. Though clearly you haven't ever played CoD so you are just denying reality to suit your point of view #alternativefacts

Want to argue the point? Please tell me the major differences between the first Mario Kart and Mario Kart 8. Let's see if there's 25 years of change there ;)

Barely any difference apart from basic skin changes and tweaks. You can take Mario Kart on the SNES and it's instantly recongisable as being the same game Mario Kart 8 is based on. That shows absolutely zero innovation over the last 25 years. 

Hahahahah, let's imagine how that board meeting would go down:

org1000: "We've had a stellar year, we've sold 80 million units of hardware!"

Nintendo shareholders: "You're down across all sales for all your hardware units"

org1000: "Yeah, but we sold stuff!"

CEO: "...you're fired"

If you think a decline across both hardware platforms for Nintendo doesn't matter, you clearly don't understand how business works. Nothing reassures stakeholders like declining sales!