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superchunk on 29 March 2013
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How about a far more practical comparison with real userbase and real "Mario" games.

1 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 X360 2011 Shooter Activision 9.23 4.09 0.12 1.43 14.87
2 Call of Duty: Black Ops X360 2010 Shooter Activision 9.08 3.42 0.10 1.30 13.90
3 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 X360 2009 Shooter Activision 8.27 3.39 0.08 1.26 13.00
4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 PS3 2011 Shooter Activision 5.46 4.70 0.47 2.02 12.65
5 Call of Duty: Black Ops PS3 2010 Shooter Activision 5.67 3.96 0.47 1.79 11.88
6 Call of Duty: Black Ops II X360 2012 Shooter Activision 7.25 3.42 0.04 1.14 11.85
7 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PS3 2009 Shooter Activision 4.85 3.36 0.38 1.53 10.12
8 Call of Duty: Black Ops II PS3 2012 Shooter Activision 4.19 3.67 0.44 1.56 9.86
9 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare X360 2007 Shooter Activision 5.62 2.26 0.13 0.87 8.87
10 Call of Duty: World at War X360 2008 Shooter Activision 4.49 1.77 0.00 0.66 6.92
11 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PS3 2007 Shooter Activision 2.93 2.12 0.28 0.97 6.30
12 Call of Duty: World at War PS3 2008 Shooter Activision 2.51 1.71 0.00 0.77 4.99
13 Call of Duty 3 X360 2006 Shooter Activision 1.45 0.88 0.02 0.26 2.61
14 Call of Duty 2 X360 2005 Shooter Activision 1.66 0.02 0.01 0.14 1.83
15 Call of Duty 3 PS3 2006 Shooter Activision 0.54 0.58 0.03 0.24 1.39

PS360 total: 131.04m means a sale average of 8.7m per game on a userbase of 147m which is 6% of the possible userbase.

1 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii 2009 Platform Nintendo 13.35 6.48 4.66 2.25 26.75
2 Super Mario Galaxy Wii 2007 Platform Nintendo 5.69 3.14 1.20 0.72 10.76
3 Super Mario Galaxy 2 Wii 2010 Platform Nintendo 3.38 2.04 0.98 0.61 7.01
4 Super Paper Mario Wii 2007 Platform Nintendo 1.85 0.79 0.59 0.31 3.53
5   New Super Mario Bros U  WiiU 2012 Platform Nintendo 0.73 0.31 0.49 0.11 1.63

Wii/U total: 49.68m means a sales average of 9.9m per game on a userbase of 102m which is 9.7% of the possible userbase.

EDIT: pulling out NSMBU and Paper Mario will only help my point... just tossing that out there.