PS3 HW - 245k and FFXIII - 1.5M

[Pristine20]

Demotruk said:

Pristine20 said:

Demotruk said:
Mario is extremely "pick up and play". It's also the original game that turned non-gamers into gamers, hence SMB sold 40 million on the NES!

That was the nes days. If you wanted to play games at all, you played mario. I played mario on nes and snes as well but I dont play it anymore simply because I prefer other game types now. There are lots of options now and a big portion of mario sales is still nostalgia. newcomers would have a lot more choices this time around and I just dont see mario 5 being the "first choice" like it was before...not even on wii itself.

The NES days were much smaller than the Wii days. I don't expect NSMB to have the same sort of attach ratio as SMB (over 60%). It doesn't need it to reach 30 million though. If the Wii carries on towards 120mill, it only needs a 25% attach ratio which is lower than MKWii and Wii Fit's current attach ratio. And personally, I think 120 mill is lowballing it for the Wii.

120 mil is certainly possible for wii since the ps2 could do it. However, when a console's sales get that high, there tend to be a lot of repeat purchasers in-between and new purchasers who ignore old titles so I dont think its possible for NSMBW especially to cling to that kind of attach ratio. But like I've stated earlier, if it becomes the new wii sports, all other logic goes out the window

MKwii is usually the game game store emloyees recommend to incoming wii owners. In the closest mall to my house now, I also see exercise stands now dedicated just to wii fit. Mario 5 probably wont have this kind of promotion. I'd reiterate that a HUGE portion of its sales are nostalgia and its sales probably wont be reaching MKwii/wii fit levels. I also dont think its legs would be as huge.