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

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Soundwave said:

curl-6 said:

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.

4.5 million sounds reasonable, I didn't mean it would have a 90% attach rate or anything.

I do think it would have done a better job at selling hardware than 3D World did though.