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Title: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: Super-Jesse on May 17, 2007, 06:33:05 AM

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Here's how all of Mario's game titles stack up in sales (Japan), in a simple to read picture form. Any of these numbers jump out at you?

Link: neo gaf forums (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6428470&postcount=1785)

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: Suffix on May 17, 2007, 02:38:29 PM

I find it kind of difficult to create conclusions from Japanese sales data. They have a vastly different culture than that of the United States, you know.

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: DeadAwake on May 17, 2007, 03:14:51 PM

I wonder if any game will ever surpass the original...

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: SushieBoy on May 17, 2007, 03:34:10 PM

SMG could have a chance...

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: Super-Jesse on May 17, 2007, 04:31:35 PM

Quote from: DeadAwake on May 17, 2007, 03:14:51 PM

I wonder if any game will ever surpass the original...

Honestly, I think only NSMB would have had that chance. SMG will be fantastic, but only an entire reinvention of the franchise can surpass the original. Of course, I haven't played SMG, so maybe the game will be just that.

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: Lizard Dude on May 18, 2007, 01:02:35 AM

I dunno, NSMB looks like it has a good chance. Since every single person in Japan owns two DSes, its sales should still grow quite a bit.

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: bobman37 on May 18, 2007, 06:38:57 AM

Besides, by the time SMG comes out, I highly doubt that 6.8 million Wiis will have been sold.

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: SushieBoy on May 18, 2007, 01:27:06 PM

Um, according to my sources, the Wii already has sold over that, about seven million.

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: Lizard Dude on May 18, 2007, 04:16:22 PM

But this chart is only Japanese sales, recall.

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: Super-Jesse on May 18, 2007, 05:00:42 PM

Interesting question:

Where's Super Mario Sunshine in all this?

Who posted that? Not me, hehe! *runs*

Title: Re: Mario sales Timeline
Post by: MEGAߥTE on May 18, 2007, 05:24:51 PM

Read the fine print at the top :-p