Sean from GamingTrend.com takes a look at historical sales figures for the Mario series.
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Golden Axe is a great game I enjoyed it on the SMS, Genesis and in the arcade. Great game but it truly was a quarter eater back in the day. I wish Sega could get the rights to the arcade port of Moonwalker another great arcade game I enjoyed. Collect so many monkeys and become Robo Michael lol.
GB: "With this feature, we will be taking a look at 15 of the best games from the PlayStation 2's vast library."
With so many games fighting for players' attention and interest losing out over time, time sink games are at risk of eventually losing steam.
It was worrisome to begin with.
It's a niche genre with only a handful of hits that can stand the test of time.
Only a few will catch on. You need a perfect storm to be successful in GaaS and a bit of luck on top of that. But a potential cash cow will keep them trying and some will go out of business because of it.
Helldivers 2 manages just fine…
Keep production costs low… don’t just make custscenes until the mechanics and enemies are perfected first.
Make so much content that you can drip extra content for years, and the game already feels complete without them.
Most importantly: make weapons, enemies, levels, and mechanics that will stand the test of 1000 hours. This might require more devs embracing procedurally generated leveled, which I think separates Helldivers 2 from Destiny’s repetitiveness.
I have to admit, the older I get the less I'm into Mario. Throw me a Metroid title already Nintendo! I bought your Wii U, now give me some games so I can scrape the inch of dust off the damned thing!
The graph isn't in chronological order. That alone brings the article into disrepute. It needs to be in order to show if demand has fallen.......
That is really bad for Nintendo. Mario were known for its system seller for Nintendo console. Not even super mario 3d world can save the wii u.I am worried about X and Bayonetta 2.
That graph has 3D World sales at 50K. ummm no lol
The graph is poorly done, too. At least have an attach ratio listed as well.
Also, what iamnsuperman said is true as well.
While the premise of this article is good, the execution is very poor. For starters, the chart goes in terms of sales, instead of chronological order. This makes the chart largely useless, since it doesn't show any rise or fall, just fall. The other problem is that the article seems to either be against Super Mario 3D World or just poorly researched.
The thing is, the chart lists Super Mario 3D World at 0.05 on a scale of 1 million. This would put the sales, according to the article, at 50,000 units. According to just the Japanese week 1 sales ( http://www.neogaf.com/forum... ), which were released weeks ago, we know the game sold at least 100,000 (I rounded up) copies. According to a less accurate, but equally informative source, VGchartz puts the game at 710,000 worldwide sales. This means the sales chart they're using is at least 1/14th what some easily found numbers suggest. This alone makes the article pretty worthless and rather moot.