Thats kind of my thinking on it. Its super obvious with Mario Kart as Mario Kart 8 is the best selling MK title and one of the worst selling ones. Mario is a franchise that's old enough to have reverence and will get sales but I don't think buy consoles anymore to get Mario (outside of fanboys of course).
Its really impossible to say since the last mainline Mario title to release at launch was 64, nearly thirty years ago. That said TP wasn't the big Wii game at launch, Wii Sports was and when you showed a Wii off to your friends you didn't show them Zelda, you showed them Wii Sports.
I know Nintendo think it can patent everything, but gliding was in games, including open world games, decades before BotW.
Yes, I'm sure that all these games drew inspiration from "Ol' Jiggaboo Jackson's Xtreme Open World Glider Funtime", sitting pretty at 73k sales, and not breath of the wild at 34.5 million sales.
If you think that the JC3 wingsuit or JC2 grapnel+suit was at all like the BotW glider (or other gliders that came after BotW) then, speaking as someone who's played both games, you clearly played neither.
I can also point to gliding in games like Ratchet and Clank and Spyro that had progressive loss of momentum rather than a strict stamina meter.
Have played neither but I can, none the less, assure you that Genshin Impact and Pal World were not thinking of fucking Spyro when implementing their gliding mechanics.
What we are arguing about is his comment about " games who's significance is rapidly eroded by time." BotW remains very relevant, even today, which is why they gave it a Switch 2 tie-in DLC product and demoed it at length during a treehouse stream.
The conversation is confusing to skim through because two different arguments are getting mashed together, which is whether BotW is still relevant and whether other games before BotW had gliding mechanics.
Let me sum up the argument
That's when retailers get stock. I'm betting Nintendo will make an artificial outage to make more hype than there is for the system. It's looking more and more like that as time moves forward near release day.
This isn't really falsifiable, and we expect that the console is going to be rare for a while after launch simply because that's the consoomer thing to do, and is the expected status quo. Supposing you're right, how would you demonstrate that the shortage was artificial/engineered and not a consequence of limited manufacturing speed?
For what it is worth, I never got a remake of FFVII. I'm still waiting and probably will be for a while.
There are plenty of legitimate gripes with the game itself, but to pretend it's not only not influential in the industry, but that it's not even popular at all is just sheer delusion bordering on being so retarded as to lack theory of mind.
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