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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/218330-growth-of-american-football
It's an old article from four years ago, but it shows that American Football does have a following around the world.
And why wouldn't it work with just Mario and the crew, without NFL licensing? IIRC, Mario Super Strikers wasn't connected to FIFA, or any other soccer association, as well as Super Star/Super Sluggers having any affiliation with MLB. Those games were fairly successful, resulting in multiple releases.
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Thanks for the link. I don't believe I ever said that nobody outside of North America follows the game or anything like that, but that the percentage of people that care about it in this country and Canada is probably way higher than those that care about it in every other country. The percentage of those people that play football games is also probably similarly higher in their native countries than those overseas, which would be more important for them to know. Nintendo obviously has access to the sales reports for every region, so they probably have a good idea for what the audience would be for that sort of game in every region.
I doubt that it would work because Nintendo doesn't really have a developer capable of doing the kind of quality football game that would gain an audience close to what Madden gets. I'm looking at the list of first-party studios and Retro is the only developer in the west, but they're too important to Nintendo to be doing that sort of game. There's one second-party studio that sort of fits the bill in Next Level Games, who made Mario Strikers and Punch-Out!, which could work if they're given that task.
Not having the NFL license would eliminate most of the audience that buys Madden, which would mostly require them to appeal to the Nintendo fanbase that has some interest in football games. The Mario sports games don't necessarily sell all that well with the recent Mario Tennis barely getting over 1 million and Mario Strikers Charged getting 1.8 million, though it doesn't help that the games aren't great games. They can't just coast on making a game based on a popular sport and expect that to be enough.
The thing that would be nice to know is how much Madden sells overseas and how much of that audience are Americans/Canadians who now live in those countries, which would give us more of an idea as to how a Mario Football game could do. The
[quote name='TimboSliceGB']american football is pretty big in england and still growing over their every year nfl has a game in england and it sells out at over 90 k people but i agree nintendo is a japan company i doudt the leaders of nintendo could care less about american football.[/QUOTE]
It's not hard to sell out one novelty game every once in a while, but that doesn't really have much of a connection to how well a game could do.
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out of Mario Football, this needs to happen immediately.[/QUOTE]
I, for one, miss the days when football games were fun first and realistic second. Fun went out the window years ago in favor of realism.
