Most Legendary Video Game Character?

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Carl2291 said:

impur1ty said:

Mario franchise - 222 million

Pokemon franchise - 193 million

Pikachu may be the face of pokemon but Mario is the face of video games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises

Pokemon gained 193m sales in 14 years.

Mario gained 222m sales in 29 years.

Take a look at those stats, and do the math. Pokemon is more popular than Mario.

well, to be fair, he only provided sales for the mainline super mario platformer franchise. If we count everything with the name mario and use VGChartz as our source (makes sense since we are on the website) Mario has sold ~385m compared to Pokemon coming in around 180m (obviously missing some sales as it is 13m low compared to Nintendo's statements)

So as a semi fair comparison

Mario = 385m / 29 years = 20.26m/year

Pokemon = 193m / 14 years = 13.78m/year

Just this year we have

Mario = ~24m

Pokemon = ~10.3m