What would have sold most? 3D World, Galaxy 3, or a Mario 64 successor?

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Soundwave said:

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3D World's reveal was met with a surge of disappointment from gamers who felt it looked lazy and conservative. Even today, many still claim it's not a "real" or "proper" 3D Mario game. I doubt Galaxy 3 would have gotten as much backlash, the series' epic cosmic vistas and more ambitious stage design produce a more flashy, marketable image.

The first trailer was meh but subsequent trailers and final reviews for the game were fantastic.

Mario Galaxy got to sell to a 100 million userbase, it's sales woud've easily been halved (if not moreso) if you cut the Wii userbase to 17-18 million like 3D World has to deal with. 

This is a whole lot of bruhaha over nothing IMO, the second half of 3D World is basically very close to what a Galaxy 3 would be anyway (there are even space levels).  

Userbase is no guarantee of sales though; Metroid Prime sold more on 22 million Gamecubes than Other M did on 100 million Wiis. I'd contend Galaxy is simply more marketable to the core gamer than 3D World. But we may just have to agree to disagree.