Nintendo says Super Mario Bros. Wonder soared due to multiplayer magic (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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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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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"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.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

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