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Super Mario Bros. is currently the best selling video game of all time, and it came out for the Nintendo, which is the best sold Nintendo console ever made.


Super Mario World is behind Super Mario Bros. in sales, and the Super Nintendo is behind the Nintendo in sales.

Super Mario 64 is behind Super Mario World in sales, and the Nintendo 64 is behind the Super Nintendo in sales.

Super Mario Sunshine is behind Super Mario 64 in sales, and the Nintendo Gamecube is behind the Nintendo 64 in sales.

See the pattern? Every single Nintendo successor, and Mario successor, have sold less than their predecessors, excluding Nintendo portables, Mario games on those portables, Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World 2 (which isn't even a true Mario platformer). Now, the Nintendo Wii may become the greatest video game console of all time. Because Mario games sell better on better selling Nintendo consoles, if the Wii sells over 150 million consoles, than Super Mario Galaxy could sell 70, or 80 million units, or more, especially if it becomes bundled with the Wii, which is highly likely, since most of the other Mario games became bundled with their consoles. If Super Mario Galaxy becomes the best Mario game, or best game ever made, expect even more sales.

The pattern is too perfect. If the Wii becomes the best selling console, than Super Mario Galaxy must become the best selling game. There is virtually nothing that can come in its path.

What do you think?


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Best-selling non-bundled is possible (believe it or not, most Mario games have not been bundled, and since Galaxy and the Wii will fly off the shelves like mad separately, there's no economic sense to bundling this one either), but since Nintendogs is at about - what? 15m and still rolling, I sincerely doubt it.

It will sell hotcakes, though. (Oddly enough, i've never purchased a hotcake.)



SMB3 on NES sold 18m, apparently, as well.



The past tells other wise. No other game has even come close to defeating Super Mario Bros. in terms of sales. I think Super Mario Galaxy will take the crown.



Desroko said:
SMB3 on NES sold 18m, apparently, as well.

That supports my belief on Super Mario Galaxy outselling all other video games. If Super Mario Galaxy is the only Mario game on the Wii, than more copies of it will be sold, rather than if it wasn't the only Mario game on the Wii. If Super Mario Bros. was the only Mario game on the Nintendo, it would have sold even more than it did now, but because there were three Mario games on the Nintendo, the sales got divided between the three, unevenly. Galaxy is going to be enormous.



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a.l.e.x59 said:
The past tells other wise. No other game has even come close to defeating Super Mario Bros. in terms of sales. I think Super Mario Galaxy will take the crown.

LOL, umm no it has no chance of beating Super Mario Bros.'s sales.  About the only game that does is Wii Sports unless they remove it as a pack-in in North America.



a.l.e.x59 said:
The past tells other wise. No other game has even come close to defeating Super Mario Bros. in terms of sales. I think Super Mario Galaxy will take the crown.

 Super Mario bros was bundled I thought with the Nes :s.

And no wii sports will be the best selling game.






a.l.e.x59 said:
The past tells other wise. No other game has even come close to defeating Super Mario Bros. in terms of sales. I think Super Mario Galaxy will take the crown.

 I'm not sure about this but wasn't Super Mario Bros. bundled with the NES in NA? This would mean that everyone who bought a NES also bought Super Mario Bros., whereas Super Mario galaxy won't be bundled in. 



absolutely not. platforming is too niche at this point. non platform gamers might buy it, but it will not be even the best selling game of this generation.



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