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

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curl-6 said:

Einsam_Delphin said:

But you don't know if everyone who bought Sunshine bought the Gamecube specifically for it, nor if everyone who bought Galaxy only did so after they had enough Wii Sports action, though seeing as Wii's were selling out before Galaxy arrived the latter is very likely.

My point is 3D Mario has consistently had one of the highest attach rates on every console it's been on, thus it's one of the most appealing games to those who pick up said consoles, however many that may be, and regardless of what 3D Mario it is. So I say it doesn't matter what 3D Mario you put in World's place, sales would be roughly the same, though of course no proof of that.

Games do not just churn out numbers to a set proportion of their userbase, the game itself determines its own sales by how desirable it is, as once again we saw with Metroid Prime selling double Other M despite having a vastly smaller base.

Difference being Mario 3D World is one of the highest reviewed games of the last 5 years ... whereas Other M .... was a critical and commercial dud. 

If anything I'd NSMBU was more of a let down ... that was too similar to the previous 2D Mario games and needed to be stronger as the Wii U's big launch title. 

But still, Nintendo isn't getting Mario enough help. If this was a basketball team, Mario would be Michael Jordan ... scoring his 30 points a night, but no one else on the team is doing jack sh*t, so you can't win games even if you have the best player in the world in that scenario, you need at least 90 points a night to win most games. 

Was Mario 3D World perfect? No. But this is kinda like blasting the best player on the team for only scoring 30 points instead of 40-50, when the rest of the team laid an egg. It's not the best player's fault.