freebs2 on 04 February 2013
| ToraTiger said: It's Super Mario I think. Mario Kart Wii was the first REALLY successful Mario Kart. While all SMB games are amongst the highest selling games. |
No, actually, with the exception of Super Cricuit for GBA, every Mario Kart iteration was among the best selling games of its generation. Not to mention the insane attach rate already noted by the OT.
-Mario Kart DS at 22.4m copies is the 3rd most sold portable game of its generation, even if you compare it to home console games it was outsold only by COD and a couple of other games.
-MK Double Dash, was outsold only by Smash Bros Melee, Halo2 and the 7 most popular games on Ps2. (note that Ps2 userbase was more than 7 times larger)
-Mario Kart 64, almost 10m, outsold only by Super Mario 64 and Gran Turismo.
-Super Mario Kart, 8.76m, 4th game on SNES, on Genesis the highest selling is Sonic 2 with 6m copies.
