Darwinianevolution said:
Best Selling Mario: Super Mario Bros. (NES) ---- 40m Best Selling Pokemon: Red/ Blue (GB) ---- 31m Best Selling Smash: Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) --- 12.91m Best Selling Zelda: Breath of the Wild (NS + WiiU) --- 11m Best Selling DK: Donkey Kong Country (SNES) ---- 9.30m Best Selling Kirby: Kirby's Dream Land (GB) ---- 5.13m Best Selling Yoshi: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES) ---- 4.12m Best Selling Starfox: Star Fox 60 (N64) ---- 4m Best Selling F-Zero: F-Zero (SNES) ---- 2.85m
Best Selling Metroid: Metroid Prime (GC) ---- 2.82m Best Selling Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem Awakening (3DS) ---- 2.1m
Looking at this numbers it's pretty clear the Metroid series is not the biggest by a wide margin. Hell, considering how much time and efford Metroid games can take to develop, Fire Emblem games are still probably more profitable, so they would have the priority for Nintendo. |
That's not my point though? I don't know how you could misinterpret it, I said it pretty clearly.
Also those Fire Emblem numbers are wrong. Fates is the best selling by far and easily a bigger priority thus far than Metriod. Metroid and FE are both franchises that I would guess sell Nintendo consoles a lot more than stuff like Yoshi and Kirby do. Which is why I said Metroid is probably a bigger hardware seller than most 2-4 million seller games. Again I'm talking about games which sell hardware, not games that sell in general. Some of those are just odd inclusions too, like stuff that wouldn't even be in the conversation. And let's be honest, for the foreseeable future Kirby and Star Fox aren't doing those numbers. Maybe Yoshi though.
