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Veknoid_Outcast on 03 February 2013
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RolStoppable said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

Well, I mix the two because they belong to the same series: Super Mario. I would have included New Super Mario Bros. 2 instead of Mario 3D Land in the 3DS comparison but the former has been on the market for fewer months. So it seemed like an inequitable comparison.

You're certainly right that Super Mario has a more important legacy, since it served as inspiration for Mario Kart. And there's no doubt it's sold more units overall. But my hypothesis is that now, in 2013, a new Mario Kart game is more of a system-seller than a new Super Mario game.

What's your logic? That they have the word "Super" in common and are platformers? It's quite obvious that they aren't the same series when they sell so differently. If people are able to make a distinction between the Paper Mario series and the Mario & Luigi series (despite both being RPGs), then the same should hold true for Super Mario Bros. and 3D Mario as well.

What criteria do you use to determine what is a better system seller? Since Super Mario 3D Land has sold more copies than Mario Kart 7 so far (and belongs to the historically lower selling series of 3D Mario games), it can't really be sales numbers of the games themselves. Looks more like a case of "the plural of anecdote is data".

They ARE the same series. Mario platform games are a single series. Why separate them? Would you separate A Link to the Past and The Wind Waker into two subcategories?

It's a hypothesis, that's all. It's a combination of sales data -- which demonstrates that Mario Kart is selling better than Mario (as long as you buy into the proposition that the novelty of New Super Mario Bros. skews the figures) -- and anecdotal evidence. I wrote as much in the OP.