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friendlyfamine on 10 March 2018
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abronn627 said:
friendlyfamine said:

Recent 2D Mario games don't sell much better than 3D Mario.

NSMBU - 5.75 mil

3D World - 5.75 mil

 

NSMB2 - 12.43 mil

3D Land - 11.77

NSMB2 > 3D Land, maybe because of 2DS bundling, NSMBU was released at launch and was bundled earlier than 3D World.

If a 2D Mario releases for the Switch, I doubt it will carry any sort of significant buzz that causes it to double Odyssey sales. Hell NSMBWii sold so much better than Galaxy cause of bundles. Put both games on the same weight and Odyssey will sell more.

NSMB Wii sold through 10 mil in six weeks and after one year it was at 17 mil, there were no bundles involved in those numbers. 

That's fine, but the bundles at least pushed another 5-10 million units. Take out the bundling and it would've sold around 5 million more only. After all, this was released during the Wii's peak era, and would've quickly fell off it weren't for bundling. Besides, it's kind of pointless talking about this, since these numbers were fads anyway. Recent games pretty much show the series' popularity now, which is heavily decreased since the Wii era. So much so to the point where 3D Mario is becoming more popular with Nintendo making the games more accessible.