gran turismo games are the only games i know getting advertisement even months and years after release (and world of warcraft) so i can't tell you about sales of games 2 years after release with advertisement.  so yeah, no clue which other games with similiar or better ads sell less after 2 years because all the games i know get 0 advertisement few month after release, that's exactly what i'm saying, a game with advertisement should sell more as all the other games without because that's why it's advertised, to increase sales.

and gt is surely the biggest racing franchise even without that, that's not what i try to say if you think so

Well the GT serie is not the biggest advertised game in the market... Halo, CoD, Forza have more ads than GT.

Maybe it's your region the odd.

Just so you know, I was taking the piss

what has advertisement in general for other games to do with what i say? i'm talking about the sales two years after release and not if modern warfare 3 or gt 5 got more advertisement weeks before and after release. all i'm saying is that it wouldn't be in the top 20 if it would get the same advertisement as other two years old games, advertisement for 0€.

it would still sell better than most two years old games but wouldn't be on that "spectacular" position.

and if you think i try to let gran turismo look bad compared to maybe xbox games, you should check my last posts where i said forza games got lot of bundling and halo 4 still didn't have the advertisement which halo reach got in usa if i look at the preorders

How much hardware is NSMB 2 moving compared to NSMB?

That's a bit hard to say since we don't know exactly how 3DS is selling with NSMB2.

I don't think it's as much as the game isn't selling as fast as NSMB... http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/game_comparison.php?reg=Global&ending=Cumulative&game[]=New+Super+Mario+Bros.+%28DS%29+[1582]&game[]=New+Super+Mario+Bros.+2+%283DS%29+[70735]&game[]=&game[]=

nvm