The "I don't care about this game, so it doesn't matter" trick

[Tispower]

fishamaphone said:

Tispower said:
However I'm glad you didn't put Mario on that list, because I seriosuly couldn't care less for Mario games and have never really enjoyed them, but I'm still partial to a couple of other's on those list, for instance I've always quite liked Halo, and may buy it for PC in the near future, and also have bought many a Pokemon game.

I just want to point out: this is *precisely* what the original poster was talking about. Regardless of how much you could care for Mario games, they're consistently top-sellers, and always push consoles.

VG Chartz data seems to disagree with that, the only time they've sold really well in recent years (GT3 level) has been on GB, and that was still a fair few years ago. Yes I know they were big on NES and SNES, but that was when Nintendo had little competition, compared to recent years.