5 million copies is terrible sales for a NSMB game.

I'm not saying Odyssey won't sell well, but this won't do the company's image any favours by exemplifying one of their worst tendencies, over-milking the Mario IP.

Expecting NSMBU to sell as well as it's Wii/DS counterparts on a 14m installbase is pure insanity.

Everyone already knows Nintendo spams Mario games. Always have and always will, nothing new there.

I didn't say I expected it to sell as well as the Wii/DS versions, but I refuse to believe it wasn't hurt by the "I just bought a NSMB game, don't need/want another one" effect.

And that doesn't mean Nintendo has to feed the stigma. This could've been a straight-up Rabbids game, it didn't need to be a Mario crossover.

Oh it definitely was, that's why I didn't want to get it afterall, but it just wasn't a significant enough factor to keep the game from selling well provided one takes into account the system it's sold on. But anyway this is all irrelevant now, atleast until you spin this discussion back to sales lel.

Stigma to you, but a blessing to most since many many people like Mario, so it's only natural that Nintendo should appease them. Mario is certainly a blessing to this game, as without him people would care far less about it. I would have already written it off as more Rabbid trash, but now I'm forced to hold my judgement because well... I like Mario (and RPGs), so I want his games to be good.

Aww, was hoping for a more traditional RPG, but it makes sense since Nintendo believes they can only have one traditional Mario RPG for some reason.

A Rabbids Battle Kingdom could've sold on its own merits without being yet another over-milking of the Mario brand.

And they picked the wrong one -_-

So Switch has games obviously.