With SMG it really depends on it's legs, anyone care to mention another 3D platformer which could truly challenge Mario on it's own console? I think it will sell around 9-9,5 mil. In comparison when SM64 there were hardly any games on the N64 which could compete as a quality game at all, the N64 was probably the console which relied the most on 1st party games, with the Wii things will defintely be different. |
But in the mean time, the N64 was also THE console for 3D platformers. Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64 or Rayman 2: The Great Escape were great games too and I believe that sales of Mario 64 would even be higher if these games wouldn't have taken away some of its potential buyers. But as you stated, there are no comparable platformers announced for the Wii, which lets me think that Galaxy will be the platforming reference on the Wii for a long time.
