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Which Tier does Zelda belong in terms of sales? SS sold 4 million but HD Zelda on WiiU might sell more.

A-Tier 73 76.84%
 
B-Tier 20 21.05%
 
Total:93
Player2 on 25 February 2013
Otakumegane said:
Player2 said:

Mario Strikers is missing, it should be B-C tier.

No Mario Tennis and Mario Golf too, probably C tier.

Are the Mother/Earthbound and Wave Race series considered dead?


I'll add the golf and tennis series as "Mario Sports"

Strikers is pretty much dead, there isn't looking to be a new one and neither are many people asking for it it would have been placed under Mario sports anyways.

Mother is dead. Wave race? I'll look into that.

Strikers sold quite well on the Wii, they shouldn't let it die.

I forgot Punch-Out!, but it's probably dead too.

Then there's Tomodachi Collection and Style Savvy.



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Otakumegane on 25 February 2013
Player2 said:
Otakumegane said:
Player2 said:

Mario Strikers is missing, it should be B-C tier.

No Mario Tennis and Mario Golf too, probably C tier.

Are the Mother/Earthbound and Wave Race series considered dead?


I'll add the golf and tennis series as "Mario Sports"

Strikers is pretty much dead, there isn't looking to be a new one and neither are many people asking for it it would have been placed under Mario sports anyways.

Mother is dead. Wave race? I'll look into that.

Strikers sold quite well on the Wii, they shouldn't let it die.

I forgot Punch-Out!, but it's probably dead too.

Then there's Tomodachi Collection and Style Savvy.


Punch-Out was weird. I can't really place that as a "franchise". I don't even think it was a reboot.

Tomodachi only had 1 game so far. Also can't all it a "franchise"

Style Savvy hm.....looking at current rates, low D-tier it goes.



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SwansVanTerif on 25 February 2013

Well, you placed Kid Icarus, and that only had one game before the reboot. Punch-out had two main games before the Wii game, so I don't think that makes sense.



Player2 on 25 February 2013
Otakumegane said:
Player2 said:
 

Strikers sold quite well on the Wii, they shouldn't let it die.

I forgot Punch-Out!, but it's probably dead too.

Then there's Tomodachi Collection and Style Savvy.


Punch-Out was weird. I can't really place that as a "franchise". I don't even think it was a reboot.

Tomodachi only had 1 game so far. Also can't all it a "franchise"

Style Savvy hm.....looking at current rates, low D-tier it goes.

The 3DS Style Savvy is undertracked here, the european sales are missing. A similar thing happens to the 3DS Art Academy.



Otakumegane on 25 February 2013
SwansVanTerif said:
Well, you placed Kid Icarus, and that only had one game before the reboot. Punch-out had two main games before the the Wii game, so I don't see how that makes sense.


It actually had a couple. Myth and Monsters for GB, and some GBA releases.

Punch-out I see less of a reboot and more of a re-release of the same game. Kinda like a remake.

KI:U was a full on reboot of the franchise as Masahiro Sakurai made sure to include him in brawl redesigned as he fully wanted to make another KI game by then.

(Seriously, Smash Bros is considered S-tier here but for the sheer amount of advertising it does for some of the lesser franchises, it could be placed higher.)



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SwansVanTerif on 25 February 2013
Otakumegane said:
SwansVanTerif said:
Well, you placed Kid Icarus, and that only had one game before the reboot. Punch-out had two main games before the the Wii game, so I don't see how that makes sense.


It actually had a couple. Myth and Monsters for GB, and some GBA releases.

Punch-out I see less of a reboot and more of a re-release of the same game. Kinda like a remake.


No way it was a re-release! :D Come on, that's just silly. Anyone giving that game one look, can see it's not a NES or a SNES game.

But now that I read about, I do see that there were a 2nd Kid Icarus game on the Gameboy, making them equal at 3 games. The GBA game you mention ... were a re-release. I just think you don't like it for some reason, because it makes no sense that you would include the one, but not the other.



Otakumegane on 25 February 2013
SwansVanTerif said:
Otakumegane said:
SwansVanTerif said:
Well, you placed Kid Icarus, and that only had one game before the reboot. Punch-out had two main games before the the Wii game, so I don't see how that makes sense.


It actually had a couple. Myth and Monsters for GB, and some GBA releases.

Punch-out I see less of a reboot and more of a re-release of the same game. Kinda like a remake.


No way it was a re-release! :D Come on, that's just silly. Anyone giving that game one look, can see it's not a NES or a SNES game.

But now that I read about, I do see that there were a 2nd Kid Icarus game on the Gameboy, making them equal at 3 games. The GBA game you mention ... were a re-release. I just think you don't like it for some reason, because it makes no sense that you would include the one, but not the other

I guess that's fair enough. C-tier it goes.



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sethnintendo on 25 February 2013
newwil7l said:
sethnintendo said:
Otakumegane said:
sethnintendo said:

So for Animal Crossing did you just add up their hand held and home console sales and divide?

Animal Crossing (GC) - 3.15m
City Folk (Wii) - 4.43m

Wild World (DS) - 11.83m
New Leaf (3DS) - over 3m (Japan only, VGC is behind due to not tracking digital sales)

So I would say hand held version of Animal Crossing is S-tier while home console version are B-tier.

I can't really say that the franchises are seperate though. I also though of spiltting AC cause of the divide in sales, but for now I'll leave it at the A-tier, between the S and the B.

Yea, I suppose leaving it as A-tier would be best for now.

For your Paper Mario you should maybe include the Paper Mario series and Mario & Luigi like some have suggested under Mario RPG.


But both are different series. The only thing they have in common is that they are RPG's

Sad to admit but I haven't played the Mario and Luigi series yet.  I plan on picking up the 2 GBA and 1 DS game in the series at some point though.  Probably this year when I have extra cash I'll invest in the series.



Otakumegane on 25 February 2013

I have now ranked the franchises within the tiers as well.

As always with any tier list, this list is ever-changing and open to discussion.

(Now Jaywood just needs to fix his up.)



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milkyjoe on 25 February 2013

There's definitely an argument that Zelda is in the wrong place.

Based on individual platform releases, there's 3 games with over five million sales, but when you add in ports and remakes, and consider it cumulatively, that number increases.

A Link to the Past and Zelda II both jump above the threshold, as will Wind Waker later this year (the remake is going to sell more than 400k). That basically just leaves Majora and SS as the only home console releases not to hit the threshold.



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