Note on Mario 10-million sellers:
This is the 13th Mario game to sell 10 million copies. That's thirteen. I'm throwing in all the Super Mario Advance games and assuming that Mario Kart 64 has sold 130K copies on the Virtual Console, but I think that's fair enough.
Super Mario Bros. 45M+; NES, GB, GBA
Super Mario World 25M+; SNES, GBA
Super Mario Bros. 3 20M+; NES, GBA
Super Mario 64 20M+; N64, DS
Super Mario Land 18M; GB
New Super Mario Bros. 15M; DS
Super Mario Bros. 2 USA 12M+; NES, GBA
Mario Kart DS 11M; DS
Super Mario Land 2 11M; GB
Super Mario All-Stars 10M; SNES
Dr. Mario 10M; NES, GB
Mario Kart 64 10M; N64, VC
And now Mario and Sonic at the Olympics, with "about 10M" and counting.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
