But Mario Kart sales are good, that pun would have been horribly misused, as well as horrible
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But Mario Kart sales are good, that pun would have been horribly misused, as well as horrible
It's a Kartastrophe considering that Mario Kart was supposed to save the system, bring in new customers, etc. and yet it utterly failed to do so. It sold well among the base, but Nintendo needed more than that. Also, Mario Kart is involved. Hence, Kartastrophe.
It increased Wii U sales by 666% for a time, there's only so much a single game can do.
That would work if MK was responsible for bad sales, when it's the complete opposite. Your pun game is weak and you should feel bad
To be fair, the release of Project Diva f contributed to a +500% increase of PSVita sales, but we're not going to call it a godsend and the PSVita's Killer App, are we?It increased Wii U sales by 666% for a time, there's only so much a single game can do. (...) That would work if MK was responsible for bad sales, when it's the complete opposite. Your pun game is weak and you should feel bad
I think what Gahars meant was that Mario Kart attracted the previously reserved Nintendo fanbase (+/- 30 million customers) to invest in Nintendo's new system at long last, but it didn't necessarily broaden the appeal of the system. With that being said, at least it increased the previously abyssmal sales to an acceptable level, which is good. I guess you could call it a kartharsis for the Wii U.
Clearly you didn't see the fans hyping the game up. Obviously we knew that would be the case, but people were hyping this up as the game that was going to turn things around for good (like Mario, and Zelda, and Pikmin, and oh dear, there's a pattern here). When the expectations were set so high, and the need for a turnaround so great, a mere fine performance for the game is disastrous for the company and the fans.
In that sense, Mario Kart 8 is sort of like the Waterworld of Nintendo titles. (Not to be confused the Water Park world)
It's a shame, too, because if it flopped, I could've called it One From The Kart. Alas, it was not to be...
Many people everywhere were inclined to say
Wii U're heading for a fall
Nintendo gave you
Now here's the curtain call
They expected a shot from the kart as they lay there alone.
And I'm shocked.
So you're saying that even though the game sold well (and continues to sell well), and boosted the sales of the console, it didn't live up to the unrealistic expectations of a bunch of delusional fanboys and is therefore a failure?
Well I'm saying you thought of a MK-related pun, and then wedged it sideways into the first MK-related post you made, regardless of whether it fit or not. No lube, either! You just shoved it in.
That must've been rough on Gahars's Wiiner - c'mon, man! Take care of it, you only have one!
In the eyes of those people? Sure. Disaster and disappointment is relative.
Now, please, Veho, surely you know me better than that.
If that was the case, I'd have said Nintendo fans are suffering anal kartortions.
Yeah, and Super Smash Bros! It's gonna happen t-this time, you'll see...
Sony and Microsoft do what Nintendon't
I have to say that I agree with the oddity of having multiplayer behind a paywall, but the games on PS+ have been nice. Helps alot that quite a few games are crossbuy (something I'd love Nintendo to implement for at least VC titles).
To be fair, at least there's Games for Gold and Instant Game Collection now, so the asking price is somewhat warranted. You get something in return for your money, making it an infinitely better deal.
Seeing that I don't have a PS4 yet, but I still subscribe to Plus even though I don't have to, I don't think I'm making any excuses here. I'm on Plus for the IGC, not for the Online on PS4.
To be fair, the Xbox One is the only console with a launch worse than the Wii U's, not to mention that it's still not being distributed world-wide.
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