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Nintendo says Super Mario Bros. Wonder soared due to multiplayer magic (www.gamedeveloper.com)
submitted 9 months ago by picandocodigo@lemmy.world to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
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I personally bought it because it looked like some innovation on the 2D Mario formula, which -to me- had become stale with New Super Mario Bros. The little I played multiplayer, I didn't find it particularly great, mostly when players have very different level of skill. I think this might be a case of “correlation does not imply causation.” But what do I know 🤷

What's a safe bet is -as the article says- the movie definitely helped boost sales, as it did with older titles like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

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[–] echo64@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"Around half of all people who played, played in multiplayer" kinda sounds like 25% of sales were multiplayer sales. Still not insignificant and more than I would have thought, but it would be foolish to extrapolate from that and make a mulitplayer only mario next.

It's nintendo that's almost exactly what they will do.

[–] picandocodigo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It’s nintendo that’s almost exactly what they will do

Absolutely 😅

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net -4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Didn’t they already did Mario 99 or whatever and then sunset it because it wasn’t successful like Tetris 99?

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Mario 35 was a special game that was only around for Mario’s 35th Anniversary. It was announced from the start as being a limited time only thing, it was actually very popular right up until it closed, just as Nintendo had always announced it would.

I still think they should have kept it around, but its removal was not unexpected.

[–] brunox 1 points 9 months ago

It was pretty successful while it lasted, it always had a sunset date :(