Article: "Nintendo Bombs At E3" (Business Insider)

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Final-Fan said:

TruckOSaurus said:

...what's noteworthy is that Nintendo has only had one successful Mario game per platform since the breakthrough success of Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES -- follow ups like Mario Sunshine have been relative flops.

This sentence makes no sense. First Yoshi's Island on SNES was a success. Mario Sunshine is the only Mario on Gamecube and it sold more than 6 million copies on a 22 million install base.

Well, you'll notice that "relative" allows him to compare Yoshi's Island's numbers to those of SMW and find them wanting. 

But then Super Mario Bros. 3 isn't a breakthrough success anymore since it sold much less than the original SMB.