Why did Spider-Man 2 fail to outsell Super Mario Bros. Wonder?

Why did Spider-Man 2 fail to outsell Super Mario Bros. Wonder?

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because videogames are for children.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Tendies will buy anything

      Tendies will buy anything

      Snoygays seething lmao

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Because videogames are for children.

      Yeah because grown adults play fricking Spider-Man lmao

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because Wonder is a better game and got more attention for addressing the sterility of NSMB.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >NSMB
      it literally IS a nsmb game. the fifth one. sixth if you count new super luigi. seventh if you count the rerelease of NSMB U. eighth if you count the rerelease of NSLB. hell, even NINTH if you want to count NSMB on the wii U virtual consone.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        but it literally is not, they finally freshened level design and mechanic

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it literally IS a nsmb game.
        It really is not. And even if you insist on making comparisons like that, then Wonder is more like MM2's 3D World Style than it is like NSMB.
        Why you insist it's like NSMB all the time I have no idea. Because they kept air stalling?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          You know how Sony fanboys are, unless it's a Sony game they see every game that uses the same IP as the exact same game.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Seriously, when you see the comparisons between wonder and NSMB's animations it's ridiculous it went on for so long.

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Have you considered that Switch's sales are almost triple to PS5's

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Damn, that's grim. Wasn't Final Fantasy 16 seen as a massive flop for pulling similar numbers? What happened? I thought Spider-Man was Sony's biggest system seller next to GoW?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >similar number
        Spiderman 2 Sold 6.1M in 1.5 months while FF16 still only at 3M in 9 months

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          3 million is very good for a DMC clone

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >FF16 still only at 3M in 9 months
          >Pikmin 4 is unironically at 3,3M
          Wait are you telling me that the meme about how FF16 would get outsold by Pikmin 4 in japan ended up being true worldwide? How the frick do you manage to frick a series popularity this badly?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            what's worse is that pikmin 4 was undoubtably cheaper to make than FF16

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              by a factor of 10 or more, lmao

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            by a factor of 10 or more, lmao

            Then there's mario rpg that sold 3 million in 6 weeks and will continue to sell. Silly to think people still don't love turn based gameplay and elemental attributes.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >try appeal to PS5 dudebros
              >dudebros only care about sportsball and CoD
              many such cases

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah it's hard to comprehend the scale of SE's idiocy. They wanted the gritty GoW/TLoU western moviegame audience and Game of Thrones fans to flock to FF.

                But they try and deliver it with their typical porcelain face animu characters. They piss off their fanbase who like those kinds of characters by abandoning RPG parts, and fail to appeal to their 'target audience' because those players don't want anime Game of Thrones. They want Game of Thrones.

                I'm surprised they managed to sell 3million.

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Tendies will buy anything

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      And Snoys will buy nothing lol

      S-M2 sold 8 million in just two weeks. Wonder sold 4.3 million in its first two weeks. S-M2 outsold Wonder 2:1 despite Switch having 3x bigger install base than PS5. Why lie, OP? You could have used TOTK for your console war shitposting purposes.

      >S-M2 sold 8 million in just two weeks
      No, it didn't. It sold 5 million in 2 weeks.
      6.1 is the last number from the Insomniac leak. And you accuse others of lying. Typical Snoy

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sorry, you're correct. 5m in 11 days. I don't know where I got 8m from. Regardless, my point still stands. Spiderman2 outsold Wonder despite Switch having 3x bigger install base than PS5
        >Typical Snoy
        I have not owned any console in 20 years.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Regardless, my point still stands. Spiderman2 outsold Wonder despite Switch having 3x bigger install base than PS5
          >12 million < 6 million
          Are you dumb?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          The thing is that Wonder seems to have legs.
          Nintendo games tend to be evergreen and sell for years without going in a discount bin, can you say the same for Spider-man 2?

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    S-M2 sold 8 million in just two weeks. Wonder sold 4.3 million in its first two weeks. S-M2 outsold Wonder 2:1 despite Switch having 3x bigger install base than PS5. Why lie, OP? You could have used TOTK for your console war shitposting purposes.

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Tendies will buy anything

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because capeshit is just that. Shit.

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because it's mario.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, Spiderman is just too much of a niche IP to compete with the big guys.

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because Mario is stronger than a fridge

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    because Mario games are for a bigger audience and are just more fun in general.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Spider-man is also for general audience, kids and families... well he used to be before...

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >~12 million
    damn
    guess Tendies are the only ones who actually play games around here

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Spider man 2 was shit that's why, no one wanted to play as a deaf nigris tagging nyc with poc propaganda

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    because mario wonder is an actual video game

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bigger install base, better videogame.

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I only play games with White and Asian characters.

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    TotK sales stagnated after lunch, look at the sale after lunch and compare them to the sales numbers we just got.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      totk is still the 2nd best selling zelda game ever

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      totk is still the 2nd best selling zelda game ever

      they are absolutely lucky it sold well as it did
      garry's mod mode is not worth recycling the old map... it's a 70$ DLC pack

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because everyone else who was still wary about purchasing the game finally realized it was a lazy, overrated $70 asset flip that didn't live up to the 6-year wait or its hype, desires or expectations. Simple as that.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >it only sold twenty million units it bombed

      Do you know how moronic you sound?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Q2
      >The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 19.50M (+990K)
      Q3
      >The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 20.28M (+780K)

      Its doing great tho

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, it's also a purely single player game with no DLC coming, it wasn't gonna have some crazy legs

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >TotK sales stagnated after lunch

      Took BotW 4-5 years to hit 20 million.

      TotK did that in 6 months.

      >it-its a flop!!!

      The absolute fricking state of the schizos on this board.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        It flopped spiritually.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Forced flop

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >snoys constantly rail against advertising and cartoony games
    >Super Mario outsells it by at least half

    Gee, I'm not so sure why Mario outsold Spider-Man.

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    communists don't believe in money, and thus, they don't have the resource necessary to buy games

  19. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    It wasn't what people wanted, capeshit is out of style and the game's version of Miles is dogshit.

  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    wasn't spider man 2 more expensive than the fricking movie?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      yup, and it's from the leaks, not marketing bs

  21. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is Wonder good? Is the gameplay Odyssey like or the garbage Wii U games?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's a 2D sidescroller. it's literally a carbon copy of new super mario bros, but with slightly different graphics.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but Odyssey has 2D sections that were good, the gameplay felt off in the Wii U games

  22. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Spider-Man is mega popular, but good luck trying to outsell Mr. Video Games in his territory.

  23. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    for the same reason Mario 64 outsold Spider-Man for the PS1 you braindead flamewarring piece of shit

  24. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Remember all the people who said spiderman 2 would destroy mario wonder in sales? The opposite happened

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I have a PS5 but I decided not buy Spider-Man 2 after I saw Sweet Baby's involvement. Everything they touch is has woke troony homosexualry all the way through it.

  25. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the first 2d Mario games in years VS a run of the mill capeshit game we get almost monthly at this rate
    gee i wonder

  26. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wonder was the first new 2d Mario game in what, 11 years?
    Spiderman 2 was the third ps4 Spiderman release in 5 years.

    Mario Wonder managed to retain the core formula while providing a fresh experience unlike the previous games with a slew of playable characters.
    Spiderman 2 was a rehash that did next to nothing that the other two didn't.

    Mario sold because it's a solid game.
    Spiderman sold on brand.

  27. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I bought spiderman for ps4 when I still had one, but even if I owned a PS5 I wouldn't buy spiderman 2. I don't know who the frick the other dude is, but I grew up with very limited knowledge about spiderman and there was only 1 of them. This game is clearly not the same franchise as the one I grew up with, so my interest in it is equally non existant.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >and there was only 1 of them.
      I mean, how old are you? Because miles isn't technically the first.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm 33. I watched like 2 spider man movies growing up and played a PC game. I remember in particular a movie about the green goblin or some shit.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          So you just didn't really pay much attention to Spiderman. I mean, Ben Reilly, Kaine, Miguel O' Hara all came before Miles.

          That said Miles is definitely the worst case being made explicitly to replace Peter.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            NTA but Ben was meant to replace Peter. The point of Ben was to have Peter move on and settle down while Ben was basically the new Spider-Man. Marvel was trying to have their cake and eat it too. It ended up being such an intensely unpopular decision that they ended up killing him off.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              they fricked up by not caling it spider ben

  28. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did Spider-Man 2 fail to outsell Super Mario Bros. Wonder?
    Because rather than improving what i enjoyed about Spiderman PS2 and PS4, Devs double it down on their cons, making it a shit sequel

  29. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Palworld outsold both combined.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >12m is more than 18m
      Palgay education on full display.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous
  30. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because it’s a troony game? Wonder is based and lets us use waifus. Only reason I bought it was because you can use Daisy. Daisy best girl.

    Waifu > gay troony Black person game

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Based waifu anon, I wish rosalina was playable in wonder.

  31. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    no Black folk in mario

  32. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    SM2 didn't only not outsell SMBW, it was also vastly more expensive to make.
    Spending 300 million dollars on a game is nuts; Nuts, I say. That shit isn't sustainable. Just think of how many interesting little games that could have been financed with that sum.

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