I figured out why the Wii didn't stop selling after all Marioboys bought it

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theprof00 said:

What I meant to write is that, the most logical assumption to come out of this generation is that Mario, like God, is dead.

There were 60M original mario fans. Now, only 8 or 9 million people buy the games that are nintendo staples.

What I think really happened is that all the people who owned NES as children, like me, grew up and have updated tastes that have the same kind of difficulty level/depth as the original NES/SNES. So we have moved to PC or HD systems. The 8 million or so whom buy the "MARIO" games, are diehard fans. All the new fans prefer simpler games.

My point? From this point on, childhood memories will not be made of Mario, but of Wii sports or other games that children's parents decide their children should play. Nostalgia will eventually die, and mario along with it.

 

 

 So how do you explain that Mario is bigger than ever? The induvidual sales aren't as impressive, but the total sold is.

Mario has sold more than 99M (but less than 100!) copies of games this gen. That's around 50% more than what Sony and Microsoft combined has sold. Yeah, Mario is 50% bigger than all of Sony and Microsoft's IPs combined. Mario is more than 1/5th of Nintendo's total software sales as well.

 

In 3rd gen, Mario sold around 90-100M through the entire gen. 
In 4th gen, Mario sold around 80M through the entire gen.  
In 5th gen, Mario sold around 80M through the entire gen.  
In 6th gen, Mario sold around 60-70M through the entire gen. 
In 7th gen, Mario is going to sell over 150M, heck - maybe even 200M.

 

If it's the same people who buy the 175M now who bought the 60M in 6th gen, Nintendo has done a damn good job making those people buy games.