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

[Soundwave]

curl-6 said:

Soundwave said:

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.

Well right now 3D World has almost a 40% attach rate with the Wii U. Not sure how much more can reasonably be expected. 

Maybe Galaxy 3 would sell better, but not to the scale some people are hinting at here. Maybe you'd have 4.25-4.5 million in sales now versus 3.7 million or so. 

Galaxy also had the benefit of being the first major Mario game on the Wii ... with Wii U, it launched with NSMBU, so that likely cut into its sales potential as well.