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DeguelloNWR on 17 January 2008
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"Pikmin sold 1.61 million copies on the Gamecube (16th best selling game on it), do you think if EA had made Pikmin that it would have gotten that many sales? Wario Ware: Touched sold 2.18 million on the DS, how many copied would have sold if it instead it had been a similar game made by EA? If another company had made the Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games with different characters in it do you think it would have made it to a million?"

Yes Yes and no.

Nintendo has a history of creativity and the desire to market games as such. Both Pikmin and Pikmin 2 received a substantial amount of advertising and media preview. EA's track record with such titles like this are to develop them and shit them out the door quietly, so as not to draw attention away from Madden and Need for Speed. Likewise if Wario Ware Touched, a sequel to a game developed for the GBA in 2003 (when EA thought the GBA was a licensed movie game garbage dump) had actually been thought up by EA in 2003 and marketed and hyped by EA (at the expense of Madden and Need for Speed) there is a high possibility that it would have also garnered sales. Nintendo took RISKS with both of these titles. Pikmin is a strange RTS and Wario Ware is just a big ol pile of weird, but they RISKED making them. Pikmin could have easily flopped and likewise Wario Ware. They have made RISKS that didn't pay off, Donkey Kong Jet for instance, but their success is reflective of their desire to actually market these games instead of quietly developing the creative games in the corner, much akin to a 12-year old masturbating. They seem ashamed of them.

Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games without Mario and Sonic in it is paradoxical, because the title of the game would have to be changed to reflect their absence, and thus would not have been the same game, thus neutering your point of the characters' popularity producing sales. The inclusion of the characters is tied to the concept and has nothing to do with the DEVELOPER of the title and basically proves the point that it didn't mater if Nintendo had developed that game (FUNNY THING! They didn't.)