Is that like all Nintendo has? Or are some franchises missing? Well I suppose Mario should be split down into bros,3d and kart. But yeah shows why there is a games drought.

I think Mario Kart needs to be separate from Mario franchise. Mario Kart is own franchise as much as Smash Bros.
And Mario Party and Mario Sports could easily have own franchises.

Also where is Yoshi on list!?
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Yoshi

Wiki says Mario Sports games are around 35m.

thanks - yes as above Mario Kart shoudl be separate as well as Mario Sport - Mario Paper+Luigi Saga.

There are some games missing - see any yoshi there, for instance? Or Wario? Also a lot of smaller NES games like Tennis, Soccer, etc... and Exitebike of course.

I guess they choose only games above a certain treshold of sales.

Where is xenoblade? Pushmo? W101? I feel like there is a lot missing, or there is just too much under "Mario".

But you added Golden Sun, so yay!

Not sure where these come from and too lazy to look, but the list on Wikipedia misses most sales of the New Super Mario Bros. series at least as is evident from the notes there. Similarly, VGC misses some early games of some series or is proven wrong on others, but anyway, impressive for sure.

Also, I don't think it's wrong to combine all Mario related sales when talking about franchises. The franchise is the all-encompassing thing; 'Mario' is the franchise. 'Super Mario', 'Mario Kart' and 'Mario Party' among others are series within those franchises. If you want to split Mario into sales for several of it's series which you could do, you would, to be fair, also need to do that for Pokémon (seperating the main games from Mystery Dungeon for example), the Wii series (by counting Sports (including Fit with Sports here sparks it's own discussion I guess) and Party seperate), Zelda (discounting Crossbow Training and the other spin-offs from this number) and some others. Then , you're comparing series, not franchises.

Yes, Mario Kart games are all one thing, racing. "Mario Sports" is a blanket term involving golf, tennis, football, etc etc etc.

Got a bit confusing with the latter half of the list, as they are not in order, but still good nonetheless