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Which game will sell more lifetime units: Mario Kart 8 or Titanfall?
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StrongBlackVine
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I think it is safe to say MK8 won no matter how copies of Titanfall get sold for $2 going forward.
I want a CrowbCat Titanfall video.
Yeah, Titanfall might win in sheer numbers via cheap sales, but MK8 likely drew in absurdly more revenue and serious players. Titanfall 2 could be a different story though.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
dat first page prediction though
Mario Kart 8 - 7.7m
Titanfall - 7m
Titanfall didn't win sheer numbers either.
Mario Kart 8 - 7.7m
Titanfall - 7m
Titanfall didn't win sheer numbers either.
never gets old
so if the wii u had a slightly longer life, MK8 could've maybe surpassed Super Mario Kart?
That's impossible now with the NX and 800k shipment though heh.
Thebeardofknowledge
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Lol.^_^ Titanfall can't catch a break.T_T
At least, that will teach Polygon some lesson on underestimating Mario Kart series lol. Also thank god that MK8 sold more than Double Dash.^_^ I hate that one a lot.
Mass Effect
Member
lol
Don't underestimate Mario Kart.
Don't underestimate Mario Kart.
never gets old
Going to be a very boring person here:
I think one is a weird thing to criticize. It's still bad, yes, because it assumes that the Wii U isn't going to sell another unit. But it isn't as completely nonsensical as the pie chart, it isn't as totally irrelevant as the Mario Kart content comparison. The main flaw with the article Polygon posted isn't that they were underestimating Mario Kart - who cares if the number is a little bit off - but that it was trying to make an article out of a really obvious point. The Wii U not selling means Wii U games aren't going to sell well. Yes, okay, did we really need multiple graphs to prove this?
/rant
SomedayTheFire
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Shocked Titanfall sold that much.
Epic comment.
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Btw, when all is Said and done, Mario Kart 8 will Sell at least 9 million, if not 10 million, while Titanfall is pretty much death. Gap only gonna increase.
WaterAstro
Member
Of course Mario Kart 8..
Nintendo is just going to keep selling it again and again for different platforms in different collections until everyone has bought Mario Kart 8 literally 8 times.
Nintendo is just going to keep selling it again and again for different platforms in different collections until everyone has bought Mario Kart 8 literally 8 times.
But even if they wanted to extrapolate the sales of MK8 outwards as more Wii U's were sold....
they still made a fatal mistake.
Assuming the attach rate would remain the same.
After what...a few weeks of sales?
17 Seconds
Banned
more little kids play mario kart than shooters, and it's one of the biggest IPs for nintendo. why is this impressive?
AcademicSaucer
Member
Oh wow, those predictions .
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Does this count all of the Mario Kart 8s that came with the Wii U for like the last year and a half? If so is that even fair lol
Don't see why it wouldn't be fair. For one Titan fall received extensive markdowns and even counting the Wii U bundles for the last year and a half is like what, 6 copies?
Diprosalic
Banned
TF was on sale for pennies after like two months until this day.
MK8 is still $60, if anything, MK8 won by a lot.
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Saint Titanfall
But they don't. Call of Duty sells 20 million a pop and is a shooter.
Titanfall was bundled also and was cheap as water.
Drillary Clinton
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That's definitely an exaggeration I didn't get it until 4-5 months later and it was still full price but I get your point. But still, one benefits from being bundled with a whole console for a large amount of time, and still is.
Drillary Clinton
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Titanfall had a much more limited bundle
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Not on PC it wasn't by then it was already $10
Not really during the intial spike the bundle contributed a fair amount to it's sales. Keep in mind the Mario kart 8 bundle was still $300 long after the PS4 and XB1 had came it. It wasn't exaclt flying off the shelves.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Are they even calculating those digital sales?
Principate
Saint Titanfall
In both shipments and sales yeah. Ea owns orgin which is where all those sales went through. It's the easiest to calculate.
Drillary Clinton
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Chû Totoro
Member
Wii U only vs. every other console.
Also Titanfall has sold for really cheap and will be now sold like for 3 peanuts while MK 8 is still more than 40$.
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
Keep fighting. If anything, it's almost too good.
Me too, however it's had some excellent sale prices and of course it's very cheap now as well.
One important point though, which Im sure is already brought up, is the price those games sell for. While Mario Kart is still a fullprice game - Titanfall has sold a big proportion of its number in various sales for dirt cheap prices - which will always heavily inflate the sold numbers.
LiveFromKyoto
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Titanfall the new game from the guys who made Call of Duty with the twin marketing juggernauts of Microsoft and EA behind it. Man, it's amazing that plucky little indie game sold anything at all.
You got robbed sorry :/ Titanfall was consistently half priced after 3 months here, especially on PC but 25-33% was the norm on XBone.
Because this is wrong? Wii U a flop machine vs 3 platform released?
I mean just check the prediction on first and second page lol.
Diprosalic
Banned
You must have not searched well. I got it on XB1 for like $20 pretty damn quickly and on PC it was discounted like crazy all the time.
Disagree, even that chart is nonsensical.
Attach rates aren't fixed and don't escalate linearly with install base, there are other factors that influence sales.
In fact currently Mario Kart 8 has an attach rate close to 60% (59.13%) which is far higher than the attach rate assumed by Polygon.