Most girls would choose Mario Kart over CoD any day.  Would most young males choose Mario over CoD?  Perhaps not but you know who makes their buying purchases?  Usually the parents.

i meant other than Mario.

Explain yourself buddy. What part of him starts to resemble me?

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We have also seen alot of games that are rated higher than E-rated flop and guess which rating usually gets the most revenue. Make some research before claiming bold statements and doing it in bold really shows that you are serious.

Not a chance. Nintendo would never allow that the happen, not as long as they can slap a Mario skin on something and have consumers eat it up. It doesn't even matter what the game is, at this point. Many of the people who buy a new Mario title have already decided that they will enjoy it before they've played it. How many units would that Mario sticker game have sold if it featured a different, non-Nintendo character? How many people would have been more critical of it? Nintendo knows what they have.

Why everyone (including Nintendo now) ignores the power of the pack-in game, I have no idea.

Then change the thread title, there is no reason to change subject now, is there? 

No, but the responisble parent will.

As long as Mario keeps reaching attachment rates of 20%+ with almost every game on every Nintendo console, let me put it like this...HELL WILL FREEZE OVER BEFORE MARIO WILL DIE!!!

As long as Ninty doesn't screw him over with a string of bad games like Sonic or Megaman, then no. I feel that what they do is use their best ideas for games then slap Mario's face on it to sell.

Eventually it's remembered by the people as a "good mario game". The little guy has like 50 different Jobs.

Ex:Super Mario Bros 2. I only thought of it as a good mario game till I found out that it was originally an entire different game.

I'm just asking a question. Every major franchise dies eventually. Ane yes even the almighty Call of Duty is going to die sometime.