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TMK Stuff => Game Blog => Topic started by: Super-Jesse on May 30, 2007, 06:51:10 PM
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Ever wonder how much money our favorite little plumber has made for Nintendo? Well, wonder no more, as Nintendo has disclosed the exact amount (give or take a decimal) of units the Mario series has sold since it's inception in 1983. For kicks, I've included the top five franchises for Nintendo, with units sold as of March 2007:
Total Mario series: more than 198 million units sold worldwide
Total Pokémon series: more than 164 million units worldwide
Total Zelda series: more than 52 million units worldwide
Total Donkey Kong series: more than 48 million units worldwide
Total Metroid series: more than 13 million units worldwide
I wish the Metroid series was higher up. That series has a lot of potential, and it just has never seem to hit mainstream like Nintendo's other franchises.
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I heard Metroid is liked better here than in Japan at least.
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What about the Kirby series? Do you have any data on those games?
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So Donkey Kong doesn't count?
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Pokemon kind of has it easy, since most people buy both versions at the beginning of a generation and get the third after recovering financially... Since Wikipedia groups each trio as one game the top-seller for each Nintendo handheld is pretty much guaranteed to be Pokemon on the article for it. Mmmmm...
Chup: If he shoots ya, it's gonna hurt. Sssh.
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So Donkey Kong doesn't count?
from what I can gather, that is bundled with the Total Donkey Kong series sales. Of course, I could be wrong, but Nintendo doesn't specify if the original DK is with which sales.
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Total Metroid series: more than 13 million units worldwide
Total Nintendogs series: more than 14 million units worldwide