It outsold Double Dash. But, regardless, a new system is coming and it will have a Mario Kart. Getting it out very early is a smart move, the only debate is whether there should be a second game launching with it or not.
It sucked there too.
The only ones that flopped with Mario on them were Wii U & Virtual Boy (Mario Clash wasn't really a mainline Mario entry though). One could argue GameCube was a flop, but it sold better than Dreamcast and about equal to Xbox, so it's less that it was a flop per se, and more that PS2 dominated that generation as a whole.
N64 did not flop. Underperforming =/= flopping. N64 sold less than SNES, but SNES sold less than NES and that didn't mean it was a flop.
Mario sold the SNES and yes, N64 too. You're just objectively wrong. SM64 outsold anything on PS1. The N64 itself may not have been as popular as PS1 as a system, but Mario was more popular than anything until Pokemon.
I think it's a buffoonish launch title. The straightforward logic that "MK is popular so it'll be a good launch title" is true on the surface level and it'll probably sell well, but they're kneecapping the potential. MK8 still sells surprisingly well and got DLC not even 2 years ago, it's relatively fresh. MKW would've been a better year 2 release, maybe a big Christmas game.
That's not why it sold less, it's because the idea of upgrading hardware on a generational basis was still a relatively novel concept to people in the late 80's/early 90's. Why buy Timmy a new Nintendo, what's so "Super" about it? The old one plays Mario just fine, sounds like a marketing tactic to just sell a new thing. There's old news segments with parents talking like that.
Almost nothing will excite people like Mario did in the 80's. It was a smaller hobby at the time and yet Mario still sold like crazy, so proportionally speaking it had a bigger impact back then than almost any game since due to how revolutionary it was.
Yeah, it's not like Virtual Boy would've been poised for success if only it had great games. N64 failed because of a perfect storm of Nintendo's own faults and stiff competition, not because Mario didn't excite people (it absolutely did). Wii U failed for similar reasons, but with the additional problems of bad marketing and the mistake of trying to court a fickle userbase of casuals. If anything, Mario salved N64 & Wii U to the extent possible (SM64 & MK8 were their best sellers, respectively).
BotW goes down to 30 dollars every Thanksgiving and spent nearly two years at 40 according to Dekudeals. https://www.dekudeals.com/items/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild
Can't seem to filter everything except the Nintendo store but it looks like it's stuck at 60$ despite being like 9 years old. Having a single day a year with half price doesn't really negate my argument that the store sucks.
You're supposed to look at the price history chart, not at what its at right now. Though, I'll point out that its currently five dollars off at Walmart, so its not 60 dollars right now either. Yeah, yeah, big deal, price of a burger. Simple fact is that the nation's leading store is currently selling it for less than what you've said.
This is backwards thinking. "The Mario game sells well on this system so Mario must always sell system." This of course ignores the sales of those games and the sales of the console relative to all games. Mario made the NES a household name and the system went on to sell 60 million (a lot for that time). The SNES sold less despite having another Mario title. Why did it work for the NES and not the SNES. N64 comes out and sells EVEN LESS despite having another Mario game. And the first 3D one at that. Again, why did Mario do worse? And yes, Mario 64 sold less than World by a lot (20M vs 11M).
I think your missing the point. The point is Mario, an old brand, isn't going to excite people to spend the several hundred dollars to buy a console. Since the 80s, there have been plenty of gaming phenomenons: Fortnite, Minecraft, GTA, Pokemon ect. Even something like Sonic gave Nintendo a run for its money because it was new and fresh. You've played Mario before. You haven't played Sonic. This is the core of what I'm getting at. A new console needs a new experience. Flooding it with old stuff doesn't work. Even looking at the Wii U and 3DS you see this. Nintendog and NSMB Wii sold a fuck ton. But when they were launch titles for the new systems, they sold a lot less. No one wanted to buy a console to play Nintendogs AGAIN or Mario Bros AGAIN. This is why Nintendo needs to constantly reinvent themselves and their successful systems usually have a game thats a new IP or a complete reinvention of an existing one (i.e. BoTW or even DKC)
TheN64 only sold 33 million. This was a 16 million (33%) decline from their last system. Their competition sold over 100 million units. The Xbox One was considered a flop and sold almost double that. It was a fucking flop.
Not to mention the Mario movie is the third highest-grossing animated film of all time
You're the one thinking of things backwards. People didn't buy an NES just because Mario was on it. People bought Mario because they had an NES, and they bought NESs because it was competently marketed and there was no real competition at the time. There's similar outside reasons why every console did as well as they did. Your argument doesn't even make sense because it's acting like Nintendo only makes Mario, or never makes new IPs. They do. The Wii U had Splatoon for instance, which was a massive hit. It still didn't outsell 3 Mario games on the console because Mario is that popular. Your entire argument is predicated on the idea that Nintendo isn't making anything new that could take Mario's place, but they make new stuff often. Nothing has taken Mario's place because people want Mario. But just having Mario doesn't affect exactly how well a given Nintendo console does in the market because no one game is so important as to be able to do that for any console.
Nintendo system sell because of their first-party games because other factors made them lose third-party support for several consoles. That's a bad thing that affected the sales of those consoles. Nintendo's first-party support only goes so far, which is something you're missing.
Dumb comparison. Not only was the console market relatively smaller back then, but Nintendo never sold their consoles at a loss like Sony and Microsoft do, so Nintendo made profit off each Nintendo 64 sale. It underperformed, but Nintendo was still raking in money in those years. Meanwhile, the Xbox division of Microsoft has literally never turned a profit, even during the 360 years. It's an anchor around Microsoft's neck that they only keep out of a stubborn desire to keep a foothold in the gaming market.
It's not that the film wasn't successful, but highest grossing title doesn't mean shit when not adjusted for inflation.
People getting Switch 2 early finding out nintendo is doing the Don Mattrick Xbox one in 2025
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Not enough people could be arsed to downloaded their shitty app. So now they DRM the app and you must have the app to watch their retarded shit. Only on nintendo
It prevents people from sitting on potentially vulnerable units. It's also an awful lot like the original Xbox One reveal. Can't get online? Just buy a Switch 1.
Look at that sweet 450 dollar paper weight! I pray this thing fails in the long run.
Based Nintendo.
This means that you can't play the system without connecting to it online, which means that any factory reset consoles are bricks once Nintendo removes support.
