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Kasz216 on 01 August 2007
ckmlb said:
stof said:
ckmlb said:
Neos said:

 


1. I think it will appeal to a lot of the people that like Mario Party and Wario Ware, as it's a fun arcade like game.

2. I think it will appeal to a lot of the people that like Paper Mario, as it offers an in depth gameplay experience for thos willing to master it

3. It has the license of Mario

4. And tennis games aren't huge either, but Mario Tennis is always a popular title. And like I said earlier, the first Mario Strikers on the Cube sold .91 million in NA and it was a Soccer game too.


1. The main audience of Mario Party and Wario Ware are not people who are into arcade games.

2. It will appeal to some because it is a good game.

3. This is true.

4. This is the best point and it might end up true in the long run.


Gaming reality must be different where i live.  The people around me who love the Mario Party games and keep buying the new versions tend to be the hyper competitive type gamers that play FPS online and love games like Madden. 

I never got the casuals driving the minigame market.  Well atleast not with Mario Party.  If you are a casual fan do you really care if you have Mario Party 6 or 7. (8 being slightly differnt due to wii controls.)  You arn't going to play it enough to get sick of it.



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Lingyis on 01 August 2007

is mario strikers charged released in europe? i thought it is, but can't find sales data. can somebody enlighten me?



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outlawauron on 01 August 2007

Madden and FPS, like Call of Duty and Halo, are considered causal or core games.



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MontanaHatchet on 01 August 2007
stof said:
ckmlb - The first Mario Strikers sold .9 million in NA.

Considering the inclusion of online and how much more successful the Wii is than the Cube, I don't see why the game won't top 1 mill in NA when all is said and done.

Except for the simple fact that North America =/= the United States. Most of the NA sales could have been from Mexico and Canada.



 

 

Kasz216 on 01 August 2007
Lingyis said:
is mario strikers charged released in europe? i thought it is, but can't find sales data. can somebody enlighten me?

It was released a while ago.  English people kept taunting about how amazing it was. 



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kn on 01 August 2007
fazz said:
ckmlb said:

1. Soccer is not a very popular sport in the US.

That's very true.

I expect around 200,000 the first week. Even when footb... I mean, soccer, is not the most popular sport in the US, the online feature and the 'Mario' feature of the game will make it sell kind of well.

 


Yes but... I think comparing this to foot... err soccer isn't really fair. This is more like ice hockey than soccer. yes, they kick a little checkered ball but with all the power ups, checking, and other violent stuff, it's more 'entertainment' than it is soccer.  Most that play it play for fun and don't care squat about soccer.



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stof on 01 August 2007
MontanaHatchet said:
stof said:
ckmlb - The first Mario Strikers sold .9 million in NA.

Considering the inclusion of online and how much more successful the Wii is than the Cube, I don't see why the game won't top 1 mill in NA when all is said and done.

Except for the simple fact that North America =/= the United States. Most of the NA sales could have been from Mexico and Canada.


Yes, but Canada probably only represents about 10% of NA numbers, and Mexico is negligable, if it's even counted in the NA numbers (after all, Australia is often counted in European numbers by some). Either way, the game still sold a lot in the U.S. on Nintendo's least successful home console.



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Kasz216 on 01 August 2007
outlawauron said:
Madden and FPS, like Call of Duty and Halo, are considered causal or core games.

What the heck is a hardcore game then?  Someone should list all these definitions and give examples and sticky them on one of the forum boards or something. 

 I don't even know what I'm considered as gamer wise by these standards.  Which is weird since my third memory ever was playing a videogame.  Second ever being climbing the steps of my house to play said video game and first being in an earthquake.  So i've literally been playing games longer then I can remember.  (Otherwise my second memory would involve my parents teaching me how to play.)  Haven't missed a generation and got more then one system whenever i could and enjoy games of almost all genres.



Neos on 01 August 2007
naznatips said:
ckmlb said:

List your expectations:

1st week- 150,000

1st month (August)- 250,000

I expect this not to be as big a game as Mario Party 8 for several reasons:

1. Soccer is not a very popular sport in the US.
2. Not as casual centric as Mario Party 8 (even though it is accessible)
3. I don't think Nintendo is going to heavily advertise this game. When Warioware, Mario Party, Paper Mario and Wii Play came out, there were a lot of TV ads. Pokemon Battle Revolution didn't get much in TV ads compared to those, and I expect Mario Strikers to be closer to that. I still haven't seen a single TV ad for Mario Strikers.

I expect numbers similar to Pokemon Battle Revolution, but better because I expect more core gamer adoption of this than that game. Most of the buyers will be traditional Nintendo fans, some core gamers and some casuals.

It won't be a huge seller to either Core or casuals because it's not big enough for core gamers to buy it in huge numbers (Metroid Prime is coming soon) and it's not casual/party game enough for the casuals to buy in huge numbers.

Strong debut and then it fades away like Pokemon Battle but performs better overall because it's a better game.


1. Didn't stop the first game from selling .91 million in America

2. May lose some casuals, but will gain a lot of core with a very good online system

3. I've already seen advertisements for it on TV (2 different ones in fact). Again, you are suggesting it's going to sell less than half the first Mario Strikers even though this one has online play and is a much better game overall. So yeah, I'm saying I completely disagree with you.

America:

First week, 300K

First month, 600K (with long legs)

Lifetime: 1 million plus.


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DonWii on 01 August 2007

@Kasz216

Thats the point. The classifications are dumb. In order to truly define all types of gamers/game types, you would need, at least, 8 different classifications.