Which Nintendo title will sell the most this holiday?

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CrankyStroming said:

Joelcool7 said:

Donkey Kong is probubly Nintendo's third most well known franchise, behind only Mario and Pokemon. DK was one of Nintendo's first arcade games and the baby boomer generation Wii is focused on grew up playing it. Also the DKC franchise sold better then most of Nintendo's other franchises in the 90's.

Considering that the franchise hasn't produced by the standards of the traditional market a 'proper' game for a number of years, I'm not sure where you're coming from. Mario has instant brand awareness as a result of a steady stream of megahits and Pokemon has all kinds of merchandise, anime and outside-games recognition behind it, and the last four years have shown that if you slap Wii into the title of anything then people will buy it without having previously been interested or aware of it at all. Donkey Kong has no such prescence in the public conciousness, and likely won't pull in nearly the same sorts of numbers.

When Mario went 3D, his sales dipped, and even today those games can't reach 10M; but once a new 2D Mario cames out, 20M seller.  There are people who remember the old DKC games, and are waiting for Donkey Kong to go back to those glory days, and have avoided the recent games.