Amazon U.S. April bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

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quickrick said:

tbone51 said:

Super smash bros brawl 13mil. There is your answer. As for mario kart that has nothing to do with what he was referring too. He is talking about a point that flew over your head unforntually

Mario kart did 38 million on wii, so i don't think we should look at the wii for reference, to what a franchise baseline. i know what he was referring too basically wiiu vs switch in terms of how games are selling.

Well I would say Smash definitely has more of a core-gamer leaning, for lack of a better term.  And also did not benefit at all from the motion control craze that helped Mario Kart grow that much.  So much like 3D Mario, I think the Wii is a fine enough metric in this instance.  Plus when you compare Brawl to Melee, the growth in sales relative to growth in install base is well within acceptable levels.