Super Mario Bros.
I don't think people are mentioning this because NES never really had a competitor, but that's kind of cause they won the war with the first strike. There were other companies that were selling consoles at the time but Nintendo smoked them and Mario Bros was a huge part of that.
You could make similar cases with Tetris, Pokemon Red/Blue, Pokemon Gold/Silver, and Pokemon Ruby Sapphire. Gameboy never really had a competitor either, but that was largely based on the strength of a few games.
Wii Sports is also arguable although the Wii had a much wider variety of games that did big sales.
| JackHandy said: It's generally accepted that, at least in the US, DKC did for the SNES. But other than that, I can't think of another case where one game tilted the race so thoroughly. |
Huh? DKC came out like a month before the Playstation and Saturn. Sega was done with the Genesis.The generation was basically over. And I'm pretty sure SNES was already ahead, especially if you align launches. Definitely WW and probably in the US.
DKC sold about 4.36 million units on NA according to the data we have. SNES beat the Genesis by about 4.38 million units. Even if we assume every single person who bought DKC bought an SNES just to play that, the SNES still would have outsold the Genesis with or without DKC. Gap is even bigger in Japan, and Sega won in Europe... so I'm not getting how anyone could possible accept that.
