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

[quickrick]

Nuvendil said:

quickrick said:

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.  

it didn't benefit as much as mario kart, but when a system is selling 600-700k on regular months just in the US, i'm sure smash got a nice benefit out of it .