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

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Final-Fan said:

TruckOSaurus said:

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.

But it was the successor to SMB2, not SMB1, which technically makes it relatively successful.

Damn! You win with your twisted logic!