Call me confused.  The first bolded title is 2D and the second bolded title is currently the highest selling 3D platformer, correct?

According to Wikipedia, New Super Mario Bros is 2.5D. So, we round it up to 3D.

Hi confused, you can call me Reggie. Or Jesus. Or wfz. They're pretty interchangeable as I'm sure you've noticed.

Also yes, according to VGChartz, SM64 is the highest selling "Platformer".

I'm sure Montana's post has something amazing going on that we just can't comprehend with our limited knowledge. He is a wolf after all.

EDIT: ^ Well, there ya go.

Oh wow, I rofled. You're a real card.

But I'm looking right now, and the highest selling platformer is not SM64 (even if you don't include bundled titles).

While the graphics may be 3D, the gameplay is 2D.  I may be in the minority, but I define my 2D/3D platformers by the number of directions I can travel in.

Also SM64 is the highest selling 3D platformer, but certainly not the highest selling platformer overall.

Well I meant 3d platformer. Do I win now?

You don't round up to 3-D. You round down. The 2.5-D is just 3-D sprites in a 2-D environment. The gameplay only consists of 2-dimensions! You can't say... turn around a corner.

Blecch, this argument is too complicated. It's irrelevant anyways because SMG will never pass SM64.

Some nobody a couple hundred years noted that as soon an idea is incorporated into the convention wisdom it has already become irrelevant. Or something like that. But yeah, good post.

And per Montana's idea that the WiiMote invented Wii Sports I'm looking forward to even more purulent and revisionistic outbursts later on in this thread.

Watch your tongue, Doherty.