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Jay520 on 29 March 2013
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MDMAlliance said:
Jay520 said:
MDMAlliance said:

See, the thing is is that you're using sales as a means of measuring popularity.  Which can be fine, but only if you use them fairly.  And you're not.  That's the point.


It's fine if he's measuring popularity only on home consoles. If he was measuring overall popularity then there would be a problem. But he's not.


Several things:  His title implies it's overall, and it really doesn't make much sense to split the market for Mario in the first place.
Another thing is that the Mario games are only on one console, while the CoD franchise hits 3 platforms (PS3, 360, and Wii).

Why does it matter?  It mattes because including three platforms to one means you've got a thinned out sales figure for one compared to others.

Another thing is that when only using numbers to predict, it no longer is an opinion.



Yes, the title implies otherwise but it should be obvious he's referring only to consoles. Just like a "Pokemon vs Mario" title would obviously be referring to handhelds since its the only way such a comparison would be relevant. It makes sense to split up the market if you are interested in the state of a particular market. For example, if we were interested in the American market only, it would be okay to only compare American sales for the consoles.

Your argument about Mario being exclusive is a good argument, and is one that favors Mario. But there are many other arguments. For example, CoD has more competition. Then consider the fact that Mario has the best selling installment. On the other hand, CoD has proved to have high sales throughout multiple yearly releases.

Could Mario do the same? Is having the best selling installment with a better attach rate more impressive than having multiple big selling games? If CoD was exclusive to one console, would it sell as much as Mario? There is no definitive clear-cut, objective answers to these questions because they're impossible to know. That means there's a degree of subjectivity when analyzing these hypothetical scenarios.