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[spookyfish]

"Thank you for visiting ClickBaiters.com."

 

[FaintDeftone]

Did fucking Gies write this?!

 

[Nugg]

Usually, Mario Kart sales are not a Day 1, Month 1 or even Year 1 kind of thing. It's steady and ongoing for the whole generation, that's why the numbers become huge. I'm sure it'll sell. But yeah, maybe not right now.

 

[Malvingt2]

*staring at text editor*

"Well, that can't be right. I've written two sentences and my article is done. Mario Kart 8 will sell the worst. But... the editor will probably think I'm lazy as shit if I don't have anything else. Do I... do I have any charts? Just... let me throw some numbers in the chart maker. Is this how charts work? I think so.

Okay, I've got a whole page now. I think that's good."

lol yeah

 

[lionpants]

 

[Laconic]

One-Sidedness: The Polygon Paradox

 

[Takao]

Not going to happen. Mario Kart is a system seller and will increase Wii U hardware sales by a 2 handful millions. Smash Bros will push it to 20+ million and Mario Kart software sales will increase as a result.

Is this a joke post? You expect Smash Bros to sell 10+ million Wii Us?

 

[Aruhamel]

Polygon doesn't seem to understand how a pie graph works.

I thought the article was fine though, much to my surprise (it is Polygon, after all).

 

[Tripon]

Ben Kuchera wrote the article?

Not surprised. And where's the editor telling Ben he needs to rewrite the article for better quality?

 

[Dead Prince]

probably not if nintendo's 1 year marketing is a success.

 

[$h@d0w]

Might as well just call the article - "Fuck you Wii U and Mario Kart fans your game won't sell shit"

 

[puffyshirt]

Even their warnings force you to click

 

[Kodaman]

"Thank you for visiting ClickBaiters.com."

.

 

[borghe]

oddly enough, I'm pretty sure Polygon got owned by this, not you....

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

A temporary restriction! They don't fuck around over there.

 

[theprodigy]

Could be true for a lot of European countries. Even compared to horrible sales in Japan and US WiiU sales in Europe are even worse.

ok fine, maybe a handful of small European countries where the Wii U is nonexistent, but it at least did better in the other major European countries like France and Germany (not that it's good or anything lol)

Not going to happen. Mario Kart is a system seller and will increase Wii U hardware sales by a 2 handful millions. Smash Bros will push it to 20+ million and Mario Kart software sales will increase as a result.

uh huh, it's not reaching 20 million

 

[LordOcidax]

If Knack outsold 3DW, I wonder if Sega Transformed will outsell MK8

SM3DW is around 2.2 Million World Wide. What are the Knack numbers?

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

Wow. Mario Kart 8's potential bombing makes it a much less fun game.


I wish more comments in the comment section read more like "No shit Sherlock, I'm still buying it"

 

[Majestad]

visiting chartz is a lot of research apparently

 

[Cbajd5]

Man, I don't even get paid for this, but let me try:

Attach rates for console entries, because they matter:

Super Mario Kart: 5,61:1
Mario Kart 64: 3,34:1
Mario Kart DD: 3,13:1
Mario Kart Wii: 3,01:1

(5,61+3,34+3,13+3,01)/4=3,77 is the projected attach rate. Let's say Polygon is right and there are 6.17 million Wii Us out there, MK8 should sell around 1.64 million units.

but where's the pie charts

or bar graphs, I GUESS, if you're lame

but don't you dare give me a scatter plot

 

[Orniletter]

He should make an article for every single game on the WiiU, every announced game and every single already released game like "XXX will be the worst selling entry in franchise XXX".

Gotta get dem clicks !

 

[nynt9]

"A lot of research" is spending 5 minutes googling and on Chartz? Good to know your standards, Polygon.

 

[themagicalkitsune]

Well yeah, to match the sales of the worst-selling MK yet it will need to have a 112% attach rate. The geniuses of polygon at work.

 

[KingSnake]

VG Chartzzzzz and making a calculation based just on current hardware numbers?

1/10 (1 point for the big senseless pie)

 

[Infernal Monkey]

Only in the morning right?

Because mine is clear by midday.

This calls for a new Polygon pie chart.

 

[Ydahs]

Even their warnings force you to click

#dead

 

[BatDan]

I'd like to know this "research process" Shaun.

 

[NYCrooner]

In other news, water is wet. Yup, it's been proven.

I mean seriously, this is just flame bait bullsh*t.

 

[Raist]

Thank you for dropping some knowledge, Polygon.

What will be interesting to see is if MK8 represents the biggest drop in sales between two consecutive titles in the same franchise. Although that might end up being Wii Fit U.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

And my piss is yellow. Are we just sharing obvious things?

You need to drink more water.

 

[1.21Gigawatts]

Well, I think MarioKart 8 will have a hard time even reaching 10% of the sales MarioKart Wii had.

 

[lionpants]

Oh, and they deleted my comments which expressed my feelings towards their site in a constructive manner (similar to what I posted earlier in this thread) simply because they had the word click-bait in them I guess.

Nice.

 

[Briarios]

I believe Mario Kart 8 will be a system seller for the Wii U -- it won't be a system saver, but I think we will see an uptick in systems sold.

 

[Xav]

What a stupid article to write during the time positive reviews are going out for the game. It's like these writers can't let Nintendo have a positive moment for once.

Cheap unnecessary low blow from Polygon.

 

[Archaix]

I'd like to know this "research process" Shaun.

They didn't bother researching proper fucking use of a pie chart, that much we know.

 

[Kensuke]

The statistics in that article are useless. The projected attach rate is based on really tenuous logic. Applying a similar idiotic train of thought I can also project some numbers based on history. The franchise has sold at least as little as 5.4 million units. So the Wii U version is guaranteed to at least match that number, because that is as small as the Mario Kart audience gets.

Doing research is also not the same as consulting vg chartzzz. Really poor article from Polygon.

 

[Majestad]

Well, I think MarioKart 8 will have a hard time even reaching 10% of the sales MarioKart Wii had.

Most games on any platform struggle to get close to that lol.

 

[alr1ght]

 

[RedNumberFive]

Why hasn't this site been blacklisted yet? On one hand they deserve it for their shoddy journalism, on the other, what would we talk about with their absence.

 

[Deleted member 125677]

Wow such analysis

This article has altered the way I think about this world

 

[plagiarize]

I predict the highest attach rate for the series ever!

Do I win a muffin if I'm right?

 

[PirateKing]

Soooo, if people know how shitty Polygon is, why do GAFers still make threads and talk about them?

 

[Laconic]

This calls for a new Polygon pie chart.

Polygon: taking the piss taking the piss out of taking a piss.

 

[Mozendo]

It's articles like this that put Polygon and Kotaku in the top of the hard hitting video game journalism industry.

 

[Orniletter]

"a lot of research !" my ass. He lazily copy and pasted some chartz numbers punched them in a graph programm and sprinkled a bit "Nintendoom" on top.

Polygon has their reputation for a reason.

 

[FloweryMarston]

Polygon likely to be the worst-game related site in humanity history

 

[emb]

LOL, that's pretty amusing. Comes off as really inane. I'm guessing they're trying to establish an average attach rate for the series or something, but this seems like such a poor way to show it.

 

[TheSpaceBetween]

First post could not be better. Anyone who isn't a complete dumbass realizes this.

 

[JordanN]

As baiting as the article is, it still puts into perspective how far Nintendo has dropped.

One of the worst selling console and now 2 Marios that heavily under perform. I remember all this talk about "how Mario could be devalued on iOS" but Nintendo is doing a good job devaluing him right now.

 

[Ty4on]

So no one will buy a WiiU to play MK8? The N64 had shipped 6.1M at the end of FY1997 and MK64 was released that FY in Japan and NA. It outsold its install base by a factor of almost 2...

I believe well and truly that the Wii U has been dead for a while, but MK8 do more than 2M at the end of FY2015.

Shipment source. Note how low Europe is because it launched in 1997.