KnockOneOff
Banned
It is different in the uk anything from £15 - £40 but those Nintendo games hold value forever!
I mean look at the price of second hand DS mario 64, Wii mario etc they hardly lose money at all
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Mario Kart 8 Sells More Than 1.2 Million Units Worldwide Over First Weekend
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It is different in the uk anything from £15 - £40 but those Nintendo games hold value forever!
I mean look at the price of second hand DS mario 64, Wii mario etc they hardly lose money at all
prag16
Banned
I think there will be enough players that a DLC track lobby should have enough players. It's not like CoD U which would really splinter an already small base.
If not mario kart, i hope that they are have already started making some really BIG games for launch...
It's not. Nintendo prices their games based on their internally perceived value. MarioKart was 60, but WW was 50 and Wario was 40. They are pretty much the only company dong this.
LegendofLex
Member
Mario Kart Wii had pretty much the exact same week 1 sales. If anything, that means Wii had an equally wide hardcore base, even if it wasn't the same percentage of the total install base.
Yeah, they need to strike while they have the chance.
KnockOneOff
Banned
Please a new starfox at E3!
Yes, Pikmin 3 and Mario 3D World were also $60.
It'll likely follow the same pattern as most Mario Karts and be released in the first year and a half.
KennyLinder
Member
When I see the water/beach/sunny tracks in MK8 I dream what a Wave Race could look like on Wii U. Sadly it will probably forever stay as a dream..
But yes, they should be launching with better games than they did. Perhaps now they are in the HD zone they will be able to deliver quality like this from launch. However, who knows what form a new Nintendo console would take anyway.
blankempathy
Member
sörine;114469348 said:
Seems to be something they started more recently though seeing at dktf is 50 dollars.
I originally replied to your comment about MK8 would have shown people about "new experiences".
If now you're talking about graphics purely, this wouldnt have done much either, because the problem isn't about how much WiiU game look better than Wii games, but about how they don't look like a big step up from PS3/360 titles. The former would only matter to you if, as I mentioned, you've been completely oblivious to anything else than the Wii.
superpickleman
Member
My thoughts exactly. I knew Mario Kart is a big franchise but I'm still surprised by this news.
Wind Waker HD, I would bet.
Woohoo nicely done nintendo!
wow lol
gigantor21
Member
Woohoo nicely done nintendo!
YO DAMN XD
Holy Order Sol
Member
My guess as well for US, but Europe will can go a few directions.
Nintendo's been doing ranges all along.
$59.99
New Super Mario Bros. U
Nintendo Land
Ninja Gaiden III: Razor's Edge
Pikmin 3
The Wonderful 101
Super Mario 3D World
Mario Kart 8
$49.99
Sing Party
Lego City Undercover
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
Wii Party U
Wii Fit U
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
$39.99
Game & Wario
$29.99
New Super Luigi U
Wolfgang Jr
Banned
Yep; if they did this the user install base would be large enough for 3rd parties to want to jump on-board & the situation the Wii U has been in for the last 20 months would never have happened.
Mario Kart has hopefully proven to Nintendo that half-assing it isn't the answer; make brilliant games that will wow people and they will buy your product.
Woohoo nicely done nintendo!
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abstract alien
Member
Keby with the save lol
MisterHero
Super Member
lmao is that gif really 43 megabytes
technocritter
Banned
Woohoo nicely done nintendo!
has polygon said anything about mk 8's sales yet?
There's still confusion about Wii U being a separate system from the Wii. schuelma's saying that if MK8 came out near launch, hopefully the obvious step up in graphics from the Wii would let people know that you really did need to buy a new system to play this game. The *ahem* "leap" from NSMB Wii to NSMB U was not something that was going to give the same impression to people looking at both games.
No PS3 comparison. No 360 comparison. No PS4 comparison. No XB1 comparison. No bloody A, B, C or D.
When I said "experiences", what I was really referring to was something new. I apologize for the impreciseness.
Mario Kart 8 looks significantly better and, for lack of a better term, "newer", than any other Nintendo title. Hence, in building up hype for launch and beyond, I believe MK8 would have done a much better job than NSMB U which for the most part looked like NSMB Wii in HD.
Part of the problem, as evidenced from sales so far, has been a lack of adoption from the hardcore Nintendo loyalist- those customers I suspect would have been more excited about the system and its future if their first look of the system was MK8 and not 2D Mario.
Woohoo nicely done nintendo!
Love it...so much it hurts XD.
It'll be pretty jarring to switch gears from 3D World and Mario Kart to... Bayonetta 2 and X lol. So I also hope they've got stuff to provide for those interested in E-rated games, because while Bayo and X will be my kind of game and I'm thankful Nintendo chose to make some games for "seasoned" gamers for the rest of 2014 (to use their own phrase) I know that those who bought the WiiU for games such as Mario titles would need something else to keep them active. So I'm actually most excited to see what the NFC games are going to be and hope those games will be good for the audience that needs "E-rated" games.
And of course I have to say I'm very happy that a good number of people are enjoying Mario Kart 8!
(Maybe they'll want to buy X too? 
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)Shame because pikmin 3 is way better.
Yes, that it is still on track to being the worst selling MK yet.
Dehumanizer
Member
Yes:
Despite the game's rapid sales, Mario Kart 8 is still likely to be one of the worst-selling titles in the franchise's history. For a complete breakdown, check out our analysis piece on Mario Kart.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/2/5772826/mario-kart-8-nintendo-fastest-selling-wii-u
Yes:
Despite the game's rapid sales, Mario Kart 8 is still likely to be one of the worst-selling titles in the franchise's history. For a complete breakdown, check out our analysis piece on Mario Kart.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/2/5772826/mario-kart-8-nintendo-fastest-selling-wii-u
Oh my fucking god.
They actually did the thing...
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
So what are the odds that we see a Nintendo Kart released on the U in a couple years? I can really see it happening.
Yeah they even doubled down on their previous article:
"Mario Kart 8, the latest entry in Nintendo's kart racing franchise, is the fastest selling Wii U game in the console's history, the company announced today.
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Despite the game's rapid sales, Mario Kart 8 is still likely to be one of the worst-selling titles in the franchise's history. For a complete breakdown, check out our analysis piece on Mario Kart."
Even after this these clowns are claiming that Mario Kart 8 will likely sell less than 5.47 million (according to their VG Chartz certified sources... please) when all is said and done.
Oh and then Ben Kuchera on Twitter:
Ben Kuchera @BenKuchera · 3h
I love Mario Kart 8: http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/15/5720684/mario-kart-8-mobile-iphone-wii-u-nintendo But saying it's going to outsell previous titles is likely madness.
Ben Kuchera @BenKuchera · 3h
It assumes either a 1:1 attach rate to hardware, or a HUGE uptick in Wii U sales. We'll see. The game is amazing, it deserves to be a hit.
I don't even know how he can say something like that with a straight face. I'm not a huge fan of putting people who write about games on a spot like this but seriously now. There's a limit on how ridiculous you can be publicly.
0 to never going to happen.
If we see another racing game on WiiU from Nintendo, it will be F-Zero.
Still not a big fan of that. The experience just is not the same. But that was on different platforms maybe this will work we shall see. In battlefield for example you can't enter servers where they decide only people can enter the server who has bought x dlc even if the dlc isnt in the roulation of maps. So the mario golf solution would be best. Also encourage people to buy it after they have played it to see if it is any good.
prag16
Banned
Wave Race and 1080 are two other dormant racing franchises that probably won't happen (but are still more likely than a "Nintendo Kart").
LegendofLex
Member
It'd have to break about 7m (i.e., beat Double Dash) to not be in the worst 3. And to do that, it would need to see a huge uptick in Wii U sales (~6-7m units) to not require anything less than a 1:2 attach rate. I don't see what's wrong with this claim.
Nintendo needs a lot more good multiplayer games on Wii U before it's gonna do that, I think.
HoodWinked
Gold Member
ya i was looking up sales for previous mario kart games and its scary when you think about mario kart wii. that game had a 1:3 attach rate on a 100+ million selling console. let that sink in....
I think the fact that Nintendo included F-Zero in NintendoLand gives it a much better chance than any other racer at seeing a revival.