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BasilZero said:

I love how you quote me, the neutral guy when there were other people who made comments that should of been quoted l0l

Anyways in regards to New Super Mario Bros U since that was what my post was in regarding since all the other software on the Wii-U is lackluster imo - NSMB2 came out less than a year before this game, the fact that NSMBU came out in short time frame and still managed to do over a mil is amazing especially making it probably the first non-bundled Wii-U game to hit 1 mil physical,

1 Nintendo Land WiiU 2012 Action Nintendo 0.88 0.37 0.29 0.13 1.67
2 New Super Mario Bros. U WiiU 2012 Action Nintendo 0.70 0.29 0.47 0.11 1.58

compare that to...a game that was sold on a system that has 70+ mil units

2 PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale PS3 2012 Action Sony Computer Entertainment 0.26 0.12 0.02 0.06 0.45
3 LittleBigPlanet Karting PS3 2012 Action Sony Computer Entertainment 0.22 0.15 0.01 0.07 0.44

Gee I wonder why those games got over a million but not the ones on the PS3 :(!

 

Now if you make bundling as a argument

1 Mario Kart Wii Wii 2008 Racing Nintendo 14.45 12.21 3.62 3.21 33.49
1 Wii Sports Wii 2006 Sports Nintendo 40.39 28.38 3.77 8.54 81.07
3 Wii Sports Resort Wii 2009 Sports Nintendo 14.79 10.50 3.18 3.01 31.47
4 Wii Play Wii 2006 Misc Nintendo 13.83 9.11 2.93 2.84 28.71
5 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii 2009 Platform Nintendo 13.32 6.47 4.65 2.25 26.69
6 Wii Fit Wii 2007 Sports Nintendo 8.91 8.15 3.60 2.08 22.74
7 Wii Fit Plus Wii 2009 Sports Nintendo 8.81 7.93 2.53 1.86 21.12

Now I know some of these examples seem a bit weak (i.e. Wii sports games) but my main point is that people love Mario and there are two games on the list regardless of them being bundles or not - their still counted.

Show me one game (bundled or not on the PS3) that even managed to make it to 15+ mil - matterfact give me a first party title on the PS3 that managed to even do that and then get back to me on it.

Gee I wonder WHY people buy Mario games hmmm I wonder, the storylines are weak, the budgets I'm sure are less than some of the higher up "AAA" titles, and its the SAME DAMN GAME!!!.

 

 

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Damn that was hard to post like a rabid Nintendo fan lol

Come back when you aren't cherry picking the games. Try the Uncharted series, Killzone or God of War for PS3 and Halo & Gears of War for the 360. 

If Mario game followings were strong, then surely the Wii U wouldn't be where it currently is.