...What?

-_-U

As I said, it's common knowledge Mario Kart is a franchise that appeals to a wider range of people than the average game. I shouldn't need facts to prove something to you that you already know and digging up surveys that may or may not exist publically is not worth my time. Games like Uncharted and Halo are aimed at males aged 18-30, and therefore appeal to males aged 13-30. Mario kart is aimed at everyone, and is therefore less popular with the 18-30 males as normal games, but you'll find a broader age range in general (though people over 40 are probably not playing without their kids)  and a much higher percentage of females.

If you want I could go back and read your long-ass OP and point out all the arguments you made without factual evidence... at least assuming it isn't a joke.

EDIT: NM... just read the OP, it has to be some kind of sarcasm... hell you barely even make an actual argument, didn't have any actual data apart from the GC comparison, which handily ignored the userbase issue I mentioned and most of your evidence comes from you asking 17, 19 or possibly 18 people from your school... something you haven't and can't prove you did at all, never mind if you did it in an unbiased way (finding that many in any school that haven't played video games must have been difficult though).

Yes. But these games have "Wii" on the boxart 1 additional time.

Super Mario Bros & Duck Hunt were pack ins for the NES, most of the copies that were sold came with the system.

Tetris was a pack in with Gameboy.

Only Pokemon and NSMB help your argument.

This is a good observation. But there is more to it than symbolism and subliminal messages, you see. It is true voodo, or brainwashing power if you will. While Apple discovered the power of the single lowercase i on the human mind, Nintendo discovered that if you double the amount of ii's, it doubles the brainwashing power. Therefore, the overwhelming power of the two lowercase ii's together bring about a hypnotic trance that force the poor, unsuspecting gamer into buying casual Nintendo products such as Wii Play  and Wii fit (the latter of which actually has three iii's, hence the even greater sales!). This is proven, scientific fact!

This thread is bad and you should feel bad.

Mother of God, now everything makes sense.

I think there's a grander scheme going on.  Nintendo found a way to double the brainwashing powers with the double i but Apple found a way to brainwash you more quickly by putting the i before the product name.  It takes over your brain faster but the power is not a strong.  This explains why so many people by ipods so quickly.  The problem is that the trance doesn't last very long so they have to keep releasing products yearly or the people will move on.  Now Nintendo knew the power of the ii but realized if they put the ii upfront right away people would catch on to their world domination scheme.  That's why Nintendo formed Apple many years ago so they could slowly saturate the market and gain trust.  In a few years time the iiPOWii will release and Nintendo will have absolute authority over the human populace.  They must wait a few more years though because they do not have a big enough influence on 3rd world countries.