Malstrom: "My purpose is to reveal and inform people about Nintendo."

[TruckOSaurus]

happydolphin said:

noname2200 said:

There's a reason I deliberately said "apples to pears" rather than apples to apples!

Seriously though, there's no disingenuity going on here. 2D Mario platofrmers and 3D Mario platformers are both in the same genre, i.e. platformers. They're extremely different from one another, to the point where they basically are different series entirely, but they're both in the same genre, and in point of fact Nintendo has publicly stated that it wants fans of the 2D games to migrate to the 3D ones.

Neither 2D Mario platformers nor 3D Mario platformers are in the racing genre. Everyone treats them as being completely separate from the Kart series.* Why stop that now?

 

*Except for folks who like to argue that Mario gets milked, and then treat all the games with him in it as being one and the same.

Okay, at least it's consistent.

In that case I'll progress to the actual counter-argument. So, if a DS Platformer from 2006 does a better job selling than a 2012 3DS Racer, how would you interpret the data? (I'm using the hypothetical better to accentuate my point )

I know, I know,I know!

2D platformers are more popular than Racers!