Did you think New Super Mario Bros Wii would outsell Mario Galaxy?

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perpride said:
Something tell me people are not being truthful here!!!

87% of you knew it was going to outsell Galaxy?

2D	Sales (m)		3D	Sales (m)
Super Mario Bros	40.24		Super Mario 64	11.89
Super Mario World	20.61		Super Mario Galaxy	8.29
New Super Mario Bros	20.42		Super Mario Sunshine	6.28
Super Mario Land	18.14		Total	26.46
Super Mario Bros 3	17.28		Average	8.82
Super Mario Land 2	11.18
Super Mario All-Stars	10.55
Super Mario Bros 2	7.46
Super Mario World 2	4.12
Total	150
Average	16.66667

If we look at non GBA/DS remakes released world wide, only 1 title sold worse than the worst selling 3D Mario, yet the best selling 3D Mario only beat the 4th worst selling 2D Mario. New Super Mario Bros DS should have shown everyone that 2D Mario sells like hotcakes. The only "poor" selling 2D Mario games are SMW2,  which had baby Mario and launched after the PlayStation released, and Super Mario Bros 2, which was previously released in Japan under Doki Doki Panic and was drastically different than any other 2D mario released. If you look at the remakes and rereleases, they landed in the 2-6m range. People love 2D platfomers.

So, with that information, I don't see why anyone shouldn't have expected New Super Mario Bros Wii to outsell Super Mario Galaxy. However, I can see how people wouldn't have expected it to sell as fast as it has.