Out of Pokémon, Mario and The Sims, which is most popular and successful?

[Cougarman]

TheSoldier00 said:

Cougarman said:

TheSoldier00 said:

Cougarman said:
way to ignore about 30 of the sims spin offs, mario is the most popular name in gaming.

 

 Agree on the character Mario, but The Sims series, I believe, is so many times more successful than the Mario franchise it's ridiculous.

By the time a fourth Sims game will have hit the market, the series will have sold more than 150 million units, closing in on the 200-games Mario.

it is more popular as a game too, if you just look at the sales of first sims game on PC/GC/PS2 combined is outsold by super mario bros 3 on nes and GBA combined, i am not counting add-on sales or mario spin-offs here just one game against another.

Though you need to think - if there would only be 2 Mario games - to make it fair - with a few expansions, the Mario franchise would have got owned by The Sims series, which makes The Sims the most successful ever, if you think about it, easily tearing apart Pokémon and simply above Mario.

 

yes off course 2 mario games would get outsold by the sims  plus the expansions, since the expansions are owned by the same people who own the original sims it is not being bought by new players so this makes it hard to know if the sims is really more popular than mario series, dont get me wrong the sims is very popular franchise with amazing sales and huge fanbase, i just dont see it being as popular as mario.