Nintendo have shared life-to-date sales figures for some of their more popular Nintendo 3DS and Wii U games, as of December 31st, 2014.
Nintendo 3DS game sales:
Pokémon X/Y – 13.70 million
Mario Kart 7 – 11.42 million
Wii U game sales:
Mario Kart 8 – 4.77 million
Nintendo Land – 4.44 million
Super Mario 3D World – 3.79 million
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "10 years. It’s been almost 10 years since the last mainline release in the Mario Kart series. Mario Kart 8 came out for the Wii U in 2014 and became the best-selling game for the system by a sizeable margin, and later pulled the same magic trick on the Nintendo Switch under the stage name Deluxe. All in all, it's sold nearly 70 million copies over the last decade and is still selling like hot cakes to this day, so it’s no wonder Nintendo has been in no rush to replace it. However, with rumors of a new system being just around the corner, and reports a few years back that a new Mario Kart is indeed under way, it seems the era of 8 might very well be drawing to a close. It’s an exciting prospect to be sure, but after two Nintendo systems with Mario Kart 8 at their heart, a lot of questions remain about how Nintendo will choose to follow it up."
I hope they just keep building on Mario Kart 8; Add a track-creation tool, and probably open it up to more Nintendo IPs with new tracks and characters, so Metroid, Punch Out, Starfox, Animal Crossing, etc etc.
there wont be a new one until the switch 2 comes out.
nintendo needs their bangers early on
That attach rate for Mario Kart is insane. The Wii U manages to sell 4.77 million copies of MK8 on an install base of 9.2 million. That's over 50% attach rate!
So even with a far smaller install base than the PS4 and Xbox One the Wii U could still do very well for Nintendo.
Oh and get well soon Iwata! The flu's a bitch.
Jesus, those numbers are insane!!
:/ I love all the classic ip's and have been playing them all on wii u but dang Nintendo needs some new serious ip's. I mean I was all hyped for miyamoto's new projects only until I saw them and was utterly disappointed. now splatoon looks great but they need more than that they need an rpg, they need an action adventure and they need a a shooter with actually solid characters that people will memorize and that shouldn't be a problem with this company's artistic sense. I'm looking forward to Zelda later this year but hoping soon we get to see some new faces.
Wii U may not be in the lead but Nintendo are definitely bringing out the best in what they've got. Pokemon numbers are immense!