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Slownenberg said:
curl-6 said:

Eh not really, software sales don't scale linearly with install base. To compare with its contemporary, Galaxy sold more than any PS3 game not called Grand Theft Auto or COD.

How not really? Galaxy was a critically acclaimed Mario game on a system that got to 100m and sold less than a side series like Luigi's Mansion on Switch. The fact that Odyssey is 2x Galaxy's sales and still selling further shows the point. And it's not like there's an argument that what I said isn't true haha, everyone knows a lot of the Wii audience were non-gamers. Galaxy's sales really makes that fact obvious, and Luigi's Mansions sales beating Galaxy's, and with plenty of time left to keep selling, just really drives home the fact that Wii's userbase was significantly non-gamers while Switch's userbase is a more traditional blend.

You ignored his point about the PS3. A portion of the audience was like that yeah but it's overstated since the sales for it's "normal" games were not abnormally low, the games sales on the Switch are just abnormally high. New Super Mario Bros. Wii sold as much as the one on DS for example reaching 30m.

Last edited by Norion - on 11 May 2023