If there is a classic in the history of video games that really can be called immortal, what is Super Mario. The plumber is a Nintendo event in many ways inexplicable since 1985, the year of its debut in the world of video games, the most famous and beloved video game was repeated in all ways possible. Went through the years of 2D and arcades seeding success after another, has landed in the era of three-dimensionality with the Nintendo 64, arrived in the high-definition with the Wii. Now could not miss the last transformation: the one on the Wii U. Every new Nintendo console has been accompanied by a new version of Mario. Not forgetting of course the portable console, the Game Boy to the Nintendo 3DS.
An incredible commercial phenomenon, which earned Nintendo a total of more than 250 million copies sold. The platform par excellence, founder of the genre strategic imitated in every era is back in November last year with the new and once again acclaimed “Super Mario 3D World.” Super Mario, but this time he’s a far more important. Why is not more to save Princess Peach, but also himself and the company that gave him life. Since Nintendo launched its Wii U console in November of 2012, data from the market are not good news arrived. There is no doubt that, as it was for the Wii controller, the idea of ??the Wii U, with the controller that acts as a second screen, it was an innovative idea. But the results, in terms of sales, were not at all what we expected. Luck, for the Japanese company, is having grossed success, absolutely stable, the 3DS handheld console, which still remains the best-selling worldwide. A little ‘breathing seems to have arrived, however, during the Christmas holidays, right from the classic video game, which allowed the Wii U to regain ground against competitors. A result not simple to achieve, considering that in the meantime the outputs are the next generation consoles Xbox and PlayStation 4 One, that already in the first weeks were snapped up. There are no official data on recovery of the Wii U, but the site “VGChartz” is about a strong recovery over the last three weeks. If so you could say that the choice to start Super Mario 3D World on November 29, the same day as the launch of the Sony PS4, proved to be spot on. But it remains a fact that weighs a ton: in a few weeks, the next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft have sold more than it did the Wii U in a year. If “Super Mario 3D World “is able to make the miracle and improve the fortunes of Nintendo is still too early to say. What is sure is that fans are unanimous in saying that the last chapter of the nice plumber has not lived up to expectations, as well as the previous ones. Plumber wins, do not change. The problem, if anything, is when they change the other.
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