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Jaywood2010 on 29 March 2013
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Metrium said:
JayWood2010 said:
newwil7l said:
Mario is the face of gaming. I still can't believe people are throng to debate this.


He is obviously the biggest mascot no doubt.  But as of the last 8 years it is debatable to say that Call of Duty has been the bigger franchise.


No, it's not even debatable. You included all platforms for CoD, meanwhile Mario was on 2platforms and you did'nt even bother to include all 2. With 50% of Mario's platforms, it only sold 30mil less. You only need to include 1DS Mario game (NSMB) and sales favor Mario, that is w/o even mentioning 

You need to consider the fact that Mario is competitioning with Mario. By that I mean 30million ppl bought NSMB on DS. It was a rly fun game, but still a simplistic 2D game. For many, owning 1 of these games is enough so they did'nt bother buying a 2nd similar game for Wii. The DS games affect the sales of Wii games because of saturation, the same way games from previous instalement in a franchise affect future games. This is one of the reasons why it's silly to ignore the DS games

To make your argument debatable, you had to arbitrarily dismiss 50% of Mario's consoles and it was still barely enough. Mario sold 90million copies on the DS.

And I'm not even sure what you think makes CoD bigger than Mario. It's not bigger in terms of sales as I pointed out. It's also CLEARLY not bigger in term of pop culture. It's clearly not bigger in terms of critical reception. The only thing it's bigger at is in term of overhype and marketing because it's the ''cool' fad that gets teenagers to spent their money in a heartbeat at launch. Just because we always hear of One Direction in the media right now does'nt make them bigger than AC/DC.

They are more CoD ''fanatics'' that needs to camp out for hours to make sure they be the first to get their petty war game at midnight, and that is the reason it may look bigger.

Ive said multiple times. Home consoles.  Not sure what the big deal about that is.  It is like saying Home Console pokemon is bigger than halo.  it's not, simple as that.  Handheld mario is bigger than handheld call of Duty.  Two different audiences and two different price ranges.