Double standard with Super Mario 3D World and GT6...

[Zod95]

axumblade said:

Zod95 said:

axumblade said:

Technically, there's only 200k between the two titles. Given that Galaxy had about a 150 week head start on GT5, I think GT5 still has a shot at beating it out. 

Yes but we are not talking about the future.

Trunkin's question implies that GT had always better sales than Mario 3D (so, if this new Mario manages to sell more than GT6, it will be a "winner") but that isn't true. Aside from the Game Cube / PS2 era, I think Mario 3D got always higher "skies" than GT games. I think Nintendo fans are getting nervous because of this GT6 vs Mario 3D World thread and they will take the eventually GT6's superiority in sales as a defeat. This may very well happen because WiiU is at risk of not getting a big userbase (end up like Game Cube or so) while PS3 has assured 80M potential clients for GT6 (good legs are almost guaranteed). In my opinion, there won't be a winner and a loser. The games are on different platforms and they will both sell well dispite their timid entry.

There's technically 3 generations. 

According to VGChartz, the original Gran Turismo outsold Super Mario 64 and then Gran Turismo 2 came in 3rd. For the PS2, Gran Turismo 3 and Gran Turismo 4 both outsold Super Mario Sunshine. This generation, it looks like it'll probably end up looking like Gran Turismo 5 > Super Mario Galaxy > Super Mario Galaxy 2 > Gran Turismo 6. For arguments sake, GT6 could overtake Galaxy 2 but I don't think it's necessarily guaranteed unless it's bundled/rereleased like Gran Turismo 5. As for SM3DW, it could possibly not sell as much as GT6 but at the same time, I think both titles can easily reach 6 million by the end of their runs. Neither one of them are necessarily going to be considered flops but neither one of them are going to be sales giants. 

No, according to VGChartz Mario 64 (11,89M) outsold both GT1 (10,95M) and GT2 (9,49M). In 7th gen, Mario Galaxy 1 is still ahead of GT5 and I will not count Mario Galaxy 2 as I'm not considering GT5 Prologue either. Like I said, only the 6th gen was more favourable to GT than Mario 3D.