Mario is half a billion!!

[Player1x3]

Spazzy_D said:

Player1x3 said:
...and with only like 30+ games in 25 years across 11 systems !!!

You really like to harp on this, as shown in follow up replies, but the truth is that you can take Mario's numbers from this Gen alone and it still blows almost everything else out of the water.  In addition to that, it's longevity is amazing, it's not the only franchise that existd 25 years ago, but how many of it's contemporaries have put up anywhere near those numbers?

I will try to the best of my abilities to downplay this feat as good as i can.

Mario's only strength (sales wise) lies in 2D platformers, without them (and heavy bundling and milking from Nintendo) the series aren't as impressive, especially compared to COD, GTA or Sims whom managed to sell almost as half as Mario did in 3 times smaller timespan and 10 times less amount of games