Mario Kart Legs > GTA IV Legs in NA

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MontanaHatchet said:

rocketpig said:
*in meek voice*

I have a question:

Why does anyone care?

I wanted to lock it for this very sentiment.

So why didn't you?

Really, why it's worth having a debate about two games second week numbers and what they mean into the future is beyond me. Tey both did what every game does in their second week that sells as well as they did in the first week: drop an assload. Because, you know, there's an assload of space for them to drop.

And of course GTAIV will have better numbers than MKWii. San Andreas is the best selling non-bundled console game of all time. If you rightly separate the various Mario games into their genres, Mario Kart is Nintendo's fourth or fifth biggest franchise (a case could be made that all of the following are bigger franchises than Mario Kart: Pokemon, Mario Platformers, Zelda, Smash Brothers. If MKWii sells higher than SMG it'll be the first time a Mario Kart has ever sold more than the main series game on a Nintendo platform). If GTA IV didn't sell more than Mario Kart both in the short term and the long term that wold be a huge, shocking thing. It probably won't happen. GTA games more than any others are likely to be the biggest sellers for both HD consoles this gen.

You can gaurantee, though, that MKWii will sell more than most of the other big games for either system. As good as MGS4 probably will be, MGS doesn't sel the way Mario Kart does. And I doubt any of he biggest non-GTA game from here on in will be able to get over the massive lead in number of consoles the wii has to outsell the biggest Wii games.