Super Mario Maker Sells 1 Million Units Worldwide
Super Mario Maker Official Site
Super Mario Maker Official Site
so everyone is playing super mario maker
and im just setting here editing my New Super Mario Bros. DS.
and im just setting here editing my New Super Mario Bros. DS.
Considering the userbase & the nature of the game itself (and the budget they'll have blown on the game -or lack of, in this case-), 1 million sales is pretty good! It's a profit for sure.
Anyway, fact is it's a great piece of software if you ask me, and I've already played some quality levels - I still baulk a bit at the rrp, but it's been money well spent up to now!
Anyway, fact is it's a great piece of software if you ask me, and I've already played some quality levels - I still baulk a bit at the rrp, but it's been money well spent up to now!
Different population of people. Even levels in which I consider extremely easy have less than a 50% clear rate. It's clear that a lot of the people playing this game are not the people you are talking about. Mario has a brand name and it appeals to a much bigger population than those who have played the methods you are talking about.
Plus, this game builds in extremely intuitive and easy to use ways at creating and playing Mario Levels. You can preview levels, you can easily find the easiest levels, it's extremely intuitive to make levels (especially bundled with the Wii U controller) and just have been much more convenient for the average person (which has not been my experience with other ways at playing Mario Levels).
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Very interesting. I guess this rules out the option of the price dropping any time soon. I would love to try it myself but can't really justify spending $60 for this
For the population at large, sure. Emulators, hacked games and flash carts are not exactly unfamiliar territory for most of the GBAtemp userbase though.
Yes, I enjoyed Mario like Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Sunshine and etc but not the maker by fan that created it, really. I like the story you know. Just the difference.
The difference is the ease of access to a nearly unlimited supply of user-made levels. Even if somebody made a similar platform to easily create, upload, download, and play user-made levels across many different mario game, it would probably never gain traction due to the small player base. At the same time, the small player base and lack of traction would just cause the community to die out faster too.
Have a wander around some of the mario hacking sites some time. More than I can play, especially if I include the hard stuff, and the minor barrier of difficulty (you have to download a program and click a few times) does quite a bit to improve the signal to noise ratio.
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I like the first and last sentence of this.
Much like starting a response with "Really?" there have been calls to ban the word interesting from responses. Can't say I can get there myself but it is often used as a stall word or a non committal description, I may even be guilty of the latter at points. With that said a piece of news news/event associated with an item can be interesting where the item in question might not be.
If the 3ds is about to be fully replace soon, it will probably be a launch title for the next handheld instead.
batman ak, and soon fallout 4Yeah, and then there's The Witcher 3, Bloodborne, Metal Gear Solid V...
I agree, I just don't see people outside of major* mario fans playing hacked mario games. (*If I can give a rating on people who are mario fans from 1-10, I don't see people who aren't 7 and above playing hacked mario games)
The people who are playing Mario Maker must be around a 2 or 3; I'm dead serious, I've made some of the most easiest Mario levels that the risk of death to me, my brother, sister, friends is minimal (some of which who haven't even played Mario). I'm looking at the stats of this level, 8 people played, 3 of those 8 have cleared it (15 plays, 3 clears). Either children or people who haven't played Mario that much are playing these levels (a large part of the population is like this). Which is why I'm saying there are a ton of people who are playing Mario Maker and are not playing the hacked Mario games.
The only people saying that Mario Maker is easily replaceable with some slipshod homebrew ROM editor are people who haven't played Mario Maker.
That may all be true (though I would question the only mario fans thing -- they might not dig into it and many would view it as some kind of odd thing that happens in Japan but the emulator/flash cart set usually stumble across such things as well, at least for things like Mario and Pokemon), however I am reminded of all the other times games were made with shareable levels (little big planet being the obvious one from recent memory but go on the PC and it goes back decades -- see something like Heroes of Might and Magic) and the rather unfavourable signal to noise ratios there.
Have you tried the modern ones? Granted various companies look like they could learn some things from this level editor, assuming they want to make one with a low barrier to entry and harder to use at the high end anyway, but it was not so much replaceable as it not being a new concept at all.
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