Not exact matches
As for the Wii U, the games are streaming in... we already had Rayman and Wonderful 101 (plus many
others) and the holiday season is coming with many more
hits like Wind Waker HD, Donkey Kong, Mario
Kart, Mario World, Smash Bros., Sonic: Lost World, Bayonetta 2, etc... the Wii U sales will begin to flip to the positive.
I don't know the actual numbers but Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3 and Bayonetta sold very poorly but on the
other hand Mario
Kart 8 has sold close to 6million copies, smash is sitting above 3million, super Mario 3d world just
hit 4.3 million a couple of months ago.
There is always lag, it is why you can often fire shells in Mario
Kart and have them go right through
other racers, or
hit then even if it cleanly misses them.
Mario 64 came and went and while the 64 saw
other Mario
hits appear like Mario
Kart 64, Mario Golf, and Mario Party, we still hadn't heard a thing about a follow - up to Mario RPG.
Other big portable
hits include New Super Mario Brothers (3.73 million) and Mario
Kart DS (2.8 million).
3 years later and I can still say that Mario
Kart 8 Deluxe wows me with the amount of detail that went into the levels, the charming movements of all the characters and their subsequent reactions to
other racers or
hits taken, and the spectacular lighting effects.
On the
other hand, they had major software
hits with Breath of the Wild, Mario
Kart 8 Deluxe, ARMS, Splatoon 2, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Pokken Tournament DX, Fire Emblem Warriors, Super Mario Odyssey, and -LSB-...]
The Mario
Kart Arcade GP games (of which there are currently three) is a series of unique racing games which carry over the fundamentals of the Mario
Kart series (using Mario characters to race around themed tracks,
hitting each
other with Koopa shells, etc.), but add their own twists as well.
Skipping ahead a little bit, it was just prior to the turn of the century when Nintendo had begun to expand the scope of their Mario brand titles, inserting the same zany brand of wackiness which made the Mario
Kart series such a
hit into
other genres and games.