Conversely I think people - myself included are worried Nintendo may have overly kiddified this franchise to the point of hurting sales.   It may be a great and fun game, but so was Zack & Wiki and Dewy's Adventure amongst others that suffered poor sales because it looked like a kiddie game but wasn't really.    This definately looks like a game targeting children (to me at least).  Maybe it is, maybe it's meant to be broader appealing but I think with a cover like that, the assumption will be it's meant for children only.

But is it really poor sales people are worried about in this thread? Because it sounds more like personal interest in the actual game from a lot of posters to me. I'd like to think that as people who frequent gaming websites we'd be above superficial impressions based on marketing campaigns, but I guess not.

If you want to talk about potential sales based on the game's box art, be my guest. I love talking about box covers.

this is a day 1 for me

So based only on one game you said that "Nintendo does not make many bad games, but they often seem to come in the racing genre when they don't involve Mario."  despite Wave Race, Fzero and ExciteTruck.

But yes even Nintendo sometimes make not so good games

as long as I can play it like excite truck, there's 4 player split screen, and has about a dozen good tracks I'll be happy
unless the designs are Dr. Robobotnik's mean bean machine level annoying, but judging by the cover I won't have to worry about that

hmm interesting, will look into this one, even though I was meh on Excitetruck.

looks like lego racers or something. Not that thats a bad thing

True a lot are just expressing their personal (dis)interest based on little more than said cover art and scant details but again, because said cover art and details gives the impression it's too kiddie or casual for them.   Doesn't mean those people like nothing but violent games though.   They may just not want a game that will cause their friends to make sarcastic comments about their manliness.    Lord knows, I get enough for owning (and loving!) Dewy's Adventure.

I never said violence, I said guns, swords, no-neck muscle-men, and fast cars. So long as there is so form of "macho" imagery, it doesn't really matter how it's used. Mirror's Edge isn't particularly violent, but it does still have guns in it anyways. So it's okay to like it. =P

On observing reactions elsewhere, i find it amusing that people are pissed off at this game for not being an F-Zero sequel.

Once again, Nintendo hype runs away with itself. I also find it interesting that Nintendo is, once again, doing something strange and unexpected in lieu of doing what should have been painfully obvious (i.e. making Excite Truck 2 with online and tighter graphics)