superchunk on 29 March 2013
Put this into perspective with just the last coulple COD game and NSMBWii.
CODBlops2
| X360 | PS3 | WiiU | PC | TOTAL | |
| Userbase | 74m | 73m | 3m | 100m+ | 250m+ |
| Sales | 12m | 10m | 0.2m | 1m | 23.2m |
| Sales % | 16% | 14% | 7% | 1% | 9% |
CODMW3
| X360 | PS3 | Wii | PC | TOTAL | |
| Userbase | 74m | 73m | 99m | 100m+ | 346m+ |
| Sales | 15m | 13m | 1m | 2m | 31m |
| Sales % | 20% | 18% | 1% | 2% | 9% |
NSMBWii
| Wii | |
| Userbase | 99m |
| Sales | 27m |
| Sales % | 27% |
So.
"Mario games" have 99m possible userbase vs over 350m. That's over 3x the possible number of purchasers. YET, their games can and often do still outsell COD on game by game basis on both raw number of sales and especially % of sales to its potential user base (even if you remove PC).
How can anyone argue that Mario is not the video game king?
