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

[Bofferbrauer2]

quickrick said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

And you don't seem to understand what the bigger franchise here actually is. 3D Mario isn't all that big, Nintendo has a lot of series which are bigger than that, among them Animal crossing. Heck, you where saying that GoW4 will outsell Smash easily, even though GoW is a much smaller franchise than Smash with barely half as much sales (and that's being generous, it's 13M to 5M ffs)

Seriously, Nintendo hasn't yet released any of the big guns in terms of sales, save for Splatoon 2 in Japan. Fire Emblem had an enormous growth on the 3DS and became pretty huge, Animal Crossing kept getting bigger, Pokemon always are huge. Compared to any of them a 3D Mario is generally small fry. The reason they aren't in Switch yet is that they are still supporting the 3DS, hence why those teams didn't make the Switch (ha!) yet. Smash could also easily get up there if it can marry the good parts of the 3DS, Wii U, Brawl and Melee parts together, and it has been growing ever since it's inception on the N64.

at bolded that's a pretty silly thing to say and makes 0 sense. smash is a much bigger franchise then GOW, but GOW on ps4 is a totally different beast, and will do over 10 million, i just don't expect smash on switch do over 10 million. 

You point out something telling it's silly, only to follow up with something that's even far more silly. GoW selling 10 million is certainly possible with the hype if the sales ain't very frontloaded, but for Smash doing less than that it must be a totally broken failure to achieve such low numbers On a console with adequate sales numbers like the Switch.

As for 3D Mario vs Animal Crossing: AC is generally the bigger seller, because apart from 64, Galaxy and now Odyssey, they really don't sell that well. 7.5M for Galaxy 2, 6M for Sunshine, 5 for 3D World. And all of them had bundles (especially Galaxy, Sunshine and 64) helping their numbers even further. The real sellers are the 2D Marios, which normally sell about 3 times as well as the 3D ones.

That said, Odyssey is an obvious masterpiece and selling appropriately. It will, without a doubt, outsell any other 3D Mario by a country mile, considering the best-selling one is 64 with 11.9M sales (Maybe even as soon as the IR Meeting  next week). While AC is bigger, it's just slightly so. It will get tough to beat Odyssey for Animal crossing