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Max King of the Wild on 17 March 2013
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osed125 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
oldschoolfool said:
coming out with a couple of mario and nintendo games=problem solved.

How did that work out for N64 and gamecube bothe selling less than 35mil?

Their franchises are more popular that they were back in the day. Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash sold 9.87m and 6.95 respectively, while MK Wii sold 33.51 (yes, it was bundle but the difference is still extremely huge). Mario Galaxy 1 almost sold the same as Mario 64 and 4m units more than Sunshine. There also 2D Mario games which are known to have extremely good legs. Finally there's the "Wii series" which is extremely big.

So this argument doesn't make any sense because some Nintendo franchises are waaaay more popular than they were back in the N64 and GC eras.

That's simply untrue. Each Mario in NES era was over 10mil. The pack in sold 40mil. You are going to be sorely dissapointed if you are banking on Wii U to sell more than 50mil all on the hopes of Mario.