Most Legendary Video Game Character?

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Carl on 23 December 2009

impur1ty said:

Carl2291 said:

Jumpin said:
It's Mario:

He introduced a whole generation of people to videogames. Had an entire continent excited about Super Mario Brothers 3 with the movie the Wizard (we dreamed about the game). Has managed to sell over 385 million units across 79 titles baring his name in the title (this doesn't include Donkey Kong, Smash Bros, and others where is a major character).

Mario is indeed the biggest of legends of the videogame world, and one of the biggest in creative history, he surpassed Micky Mouse in recognition among children decades ago.

Pikachu > Mario.

I don't think this can be argued with.

Pikachu is the face of Pokemon. When you think Pokemon, you think Pikachu.
The Pokemon games alone have (AFAIK) surpassed 200million units in sales.
Then we have the trading cards which have been around for over 10 years.
The Anime, which has been around for over 10 years... Possibly the most successful cartoon of all time?
Over 10 feature length movies.
Pokemon ThemePark
Pokemon MMO Possibly the most wanted MMO ever?

Mario franchise - 222 million

Pokemon franchise - 193 million

Pikachu may be the face of pokemon but Mario is the face of video games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises

Pokemon gained 193m sales in 14 years.

Mario gained 222m sales in 29 years.

Take a look at those stats, and do the math. Pokemon is more popular than Mario.

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impur1ty on 23 December 2009

222 > 193, do the math. If Mario has been around longer it just means more people will know of it.

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nordlead on 23 December 2009

Carl2291 said:

impur1ty said:

Mario franchise - 222 million

Pokemon franchise - 193 million

Pikachu may be the face of pokemon but Mario is the face of video games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises

Pokemon gained 193m sales in 14 years.

Mario gained 222m sales in 29 years.

Take a look at those stats, and do the math. Pokemon is more popular than Mario.

well, to be fair, he only provided sales for the mainline super mario platformer franchise. If we count everything with the name mario and use VGChartz as our source (makes sense since we are on the website) Mario has sold ~385m compared to Pokemon coming in around 180m (obviously missing some sales as it is 13m low compared to Nintendo's statements)

So as a semi fair comparison

Mario = 385m / 29 years = 20.26m/year

Pokemon = 193m / 14 years = 13.78m/year

Just this year we have

Mario = ~24m

Pokemon = ~10.3m

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impur1ty on 23 December 2009

Why would sales per year mean anything? That's not indicative of popularity as a whole.

The longer something exists and maintains popularity the longer it has had to enter human consciousness. Many people over 30 won't know Pokemon but will know Mario and so fourth.

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KingKold on 24 December 2009

This thread is a great idea, too bad it turned out to be a complete joke.
Was it meant to turn out this way, or do some people not understand the meaning of "Legendary"?

I'll ask one simple question to sort out everyones delusions:

Which is the one character that has revolutionized the gaming industry, who after more than 20 years can still sell games in record numbers?

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Solid_Snake4RD on 24 December 2009

You all messed up the count,i search all 17 pages and got the count back on track.My following post has the right count including my next vote to snake

And it took alot of TIME getting the Cont Back On Track

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Solid_Snake4RD on 24 December 2009

Snake - 45
Toad - 36

Mario - 6
Tingle - 5
Gordon Freeman - 3
Duke Nukem - 2
Nathan Drake - 2
Cloud - 2
Kratos - 2

Sonic - 1
Link - 1
Prince - 1
kirby - 1
Guybrush Threepwood - 1
Ms. Pac-Man - 1
Reverend Ray - 1
Exploding Barrel - 1
pikachu - 1
pong paddle - 1
Lara Croft - 1
Captain Falcon - 1

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Marco on 24 December 2009

Solid Snake (METAL GEAR SOLID)

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Solid_Snake4RD on 24 December 2009

taking marco's vote into count and mine,now the count is:

Snake - 47
Toad - 36

Mario - 6
Tingle - 5
Gordon Freeman - 3
Duke Nukem - 2
Nathan Drake - 2
Cloud - 2
Kratos - 2

Sonic - 1
Link - 1
Prince - 1
kirby - 1
Guybrush Threepwood - 1
Ms. Pac-Man - 1
Reverend Ray - 1
Exploding Barrel - 1
pikachu - 1
pong paddle - 1
Lara Croft - 1
Captain Falcon - 1

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