Do you think there's going to be a new 3D Mario in the Mario 64 style?

[Nem]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

 

1	Super Mario Bros.	NES	1985	Platform	Nintendo	29.08	3.58	6.81	0.77	40.24
2	New Super Mario Bros.	DS	2006	Platform	Nintendo	10.42	8.63	6.45	2.81	28.31
3	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	Wii	2009	Platform	Nintendo	12.66	6.16	4.55	2.15	25.52
4	Super Mario World	SNES	1990	Platform	Nintendo	12.78	3.75	3.54	0.55	20.61
5	Super Mario Land	GB	1989	Platform	Nintendo	10.83	2.71	4.18	0.42	18.14
6	Super Mario Bros. 3	NES	1988	Platform	Nintendo	9.54	3.44	3.84	0.46	17.28
7	Super Mario 64	N64	1996	Platform	Nintendo	6.91	2.85	1.91	0.23	11.89
8	Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins	GB	1992	Platform	Nintendo	6.16	2.04	2.69	0.29	11.18
9	Super Mario All-Stars	SNES	1993	Platform	Nintendo	5.99	2.15	2.12	0.29	10.55
10	Super Mario Galaxy	Wii	2007	Platform	Nintendo	5.24	3.04	1.20	0.67	10.15
11	Super Mario 64 DS	DS	2004	Platform	Nintendo	4.59	2.86	1.25	0.93	9.63
12	Super Mario Kart	SNES	1992	Racing	Nintendo	3.54	1.24	3.81	0.18	8.76
13	Super Mario Bros. 2	NES	1988	Platform	Nintendo	5.39	1.18	0.70	0.19	7.46
14	Super Mario Galaxy 2	Wii	2010	Platform	Nintendo	3.25	1.94	0.98	0.58	6.76
15	Super Mario Sunshine	GC	2002	Platform	Nintendo	4.01	1.26	0.87	0.17	6.31

 

Remind me why Super Mario Sunshine would be such a brilliant idea? ...And lots of those sales are bundled.

Sure, the game was fun, but from a business perspective it would make no sense at all, and be too risky.

You're ignoring the fact that the GC userbase was smaller than all those other systems. Its the sell through percentage against the userbase we should be looking at.

edit:

Given GC's userbase of 21.5 million (should have been less by the time the game released) you're looking at a sell through rate of 29.3% for sunshine. Thats not bad a t all.

Wii's 95.9 million userbase versus new super mario bros wii 25.52 million sales gives a sell through rate of 26.6%.

 

In theory sunshine sold better than Super mario bros wii.