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007BondAgent on 29 December 2013
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Aielyn said:
007BondAgent said:
Both Mario games only managed to sell just over 1million this year, and it will continue to decline.

While Pokemon managed to catch up and will outsell it, in 2 months.

I think it's pretty much impossible for any mario game to overtake pokemon xy at this point.

Don't forget a few things.

1. Mario 3D Land (download version) is now being offered as part of a deal in Europe/Australia, which means that the number of people who own it will have increased without it showing up on VGChartz.

2. A number of games have strong eShop sales, most notably Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

3. Pokemon X/Y will significantly drop in sales as soon as the next mainline Pokemon title releases, which is likely to be October 2014.

4. While Pokemon X/Y will sell strongly in the next couple of weeks of data, so too will Mario 3D Land, and Mario Kart 7.

Simply put, while it's possible for Pokemon X/Y to come out ahead of all other already-released 3DS titles, it's certainly not guaranteed. It's probably going to be a very, very close race between four titles - Pokemon X/Y, Mario Kart 7, Mario 3D World, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf (and possibly also NSMB 2).

Pokemon XY is being bundled with 2DS's in north america and europe