Mario Galaxy will DESTROY Halo 3 in sales.

[QUOTE="49erfanatic"]

Let's have a little history lesson, shall we?

Super Mario Bros. - 40.24 million sold

That's more than both Halos combined times two!

Super Mario Bros. 2 - 7.46 million sold

More than Halo CE

Super Mario Bros. 3 - 17.28 million sold

More than both Halos combined.

Super Mario Land - 18.14 million sold

More than both Halos combined

Super Mario Land 2 - 11.18 million sold

More than either Halo

Super Mario World - 20.61 million sold

More than both Halos combined

Super Mario All-Stars - 10.55 million sold

More than either Halo

Super Mario 64 - 11.89 million sold

More than either Halo

New Super Mario Bros. - 9.77 million sold

More than either Halo

StephensAngel

Too bad I don't live in the 80's anymore and Nintendo ruled everything. Maybe you should warp into 2007.

firest of all, Mario is for jst about all audiences because it is rated T

most people who own a Wii are under seventeen and will buy Mario Galaxy

XBOX360 is geared towards older, cooler players who are smart and like a bit of complexity in their games, or just fun blood and guts

Every single person who has a 360 will buy Halo 3. You can't say the same about the Wii and Mario Galaxy.AbusementPark

You can't say the same for Halo 3 either. Halo 2 only managed to get to 30% of Xboxes.

Every single person who has a 360 will buy Halo 3. You can't say the same about the Wii and Mario Galaxy.AbusementPark

most people who own a Wii are under seventeen and will buy Mario Galaxy

XBOX360 is geared towards older, cooler players who are smart and like a bit of complexity in their games, or just fun blood and guts

myrtlebeach

Haha no, fanboy.

The "cool and smart" people like shipping their console away to repairs after a couple of years?

firest of all, Mario is for jst about all audiences because it is rated T

most people who own a Wii are under seventeen and will buy Mario Galaxy

XBOX360 is geared towards older, cooler players who are smart and like a bit of complexity in their games, or just fun blood and guts

myrtlebeach

Yes because it's been 10 year old's who have waited outside store's for shipment's to get their hand's on a Wii, PLEASE, I would say the nearly the entire Wii's demographic at the moment has been +18.

Hard to say at this stage. Halo 3 has something like 4 and a half million pre-orders, do we have pre-order figures for SMG?

In Japan though, Halo 3 will be as chaff before a hurricane.

Every single person who has a 360 will buy Halo 3. You can't say the same about the Wii and Mario Galaxy.AbusementPark

that actually goes more of the other way around. Some kids with 360's will not be allowed to buy Halo 3, as it is M.

Super Mario Galaxy, is part of a huge franchise, with a huge fanbase, on a greatly popular console. And it will likely be rated E10+ or T.

ANd some people might only see Halo 3 as a game that is only good for its online multiplayer, and if they dont have XBL, they might not think its worth it.

[QUOTE="Teh_Stevz"][QUOTE="Thebettertwin"]yay thanks for reminding me how many times nintendo have released a mario brothersgame

answer: far too many, i wish they will kill this stupid, fat, plumber already.Thebettertwin

10 seperate Mario bros games...

... As to how many World War FPSs? :?

http://uk.gamespot.com/search.html?type=11&stype=all&tag=search%3Bbutton&om_act=convert&om_clk=search&qs=mario#game

ok i meant mario overall

you dont think that 196 mario games is too many?

Dude a lot of those games aren't even Mario games.. And most of them are multiplats...

Super Mario Sunshine - 5.91 million copies

Considered the biggest disappointment in the Mario Franchise and still came within a half million of Halo CE

49erfanatic

But it still didn't outsell it. Considering this is the only 3-D Super Mario platformer that came out during Halo's time this is the only one we can assume Galaxy will sell like, and this game didn't outsell Halo. If you want to say Galaxy will destroy Halo 3 in sales, be my guest. Just remember that sales point otherwise.

*Applause* I mean if anyone can be this illogical, they deserve an applause. BTW, you do realize that there was very little competition back then, right? It was Sega and Nintendo and they both sold like 60 million NES or more. Lets say Nintendo sells 60 million, that means 1/6th of owners bought a game, right? Ok, now lets say that Halo 2 sold about 8 million, I think. 18 million systems were sold, that makes for an average of about 1 in every 2 people who owned an Xbox bought the game. See where there is a logic flaw?luigigreen

Actually, there were about 7.5 million copies of Halo 2 sold, and 6 million of Sunshine. The Xbox had 24 million sales and Gamecube had 21 million sales. So the attachment rate is nearly the same.

[QUOTE="luigigreen"]*Applause* I mean if anyone can be this illogical, they deserve an applause. BTW, you do realize that there was very little competition back then, right? It was Sega and Nintendo and they both sold like 60 million NES or more. Lets say Nintendo sells 60 million, that means 1/6th of owners bought a game, right? Ok, now lets say that Halo 2 sold about 8 million, I think. 18 million systems were sold, that makes for an average of about 1 in every 2 people who owned an Xbox bought the game. See where there is a logic flaw?Eponique

Actually, there were about 7.5 million copies of Halo 2 sold, and 6 million of Sunshine. The Xbox had 24 million sales and Gamecube had 21 million sales. So the attachment rate is nearly the same.

SMB 3 was godly. the movie created hype only paralleled by the PS2 launch.Dreams-Visions

Your logic fails only because most of the games you just quoted existed back when there were no other consoles out there that really competed with Nintendo. And as for the DS, there's crap load of them out there so there should be that many sold at least (I being an owner of one of the 9.77 mil sold). :)

feryl06

I'm sorry?

SMB 3 was godly. the movie created hype only paralleled by the PS2 launch.Dreams-Visions

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Actually I wanted to reply in homage of your SIG. :oops:

You only seem to include the games decades old or the handhelds... if we think logically here, the last two console games didn't "DESTROY" any sales at all. Mario 64 sold more than Halo, but didn't "DESTROY" anything. It also had the advantage of being revolutionary as the first proper 3D platformer. Mario Sunshine failed quite awfully because it was just Mario 64 with improved graphics. I dont see how Galaxy is going to U-turn the series.

Bad thread.

[QUOTE="Dreams-Visions"]SMB 3 was godly. the movie created hype only paralleled by the PS2 launch.Teh_Stevz

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Actually I wanted to reply in homage of your SIG. :oops:

:lol:

[QUOTE="Dreams-Visions"]SMB 3 was godly. the movie created hype only paralleled by the PS2 launch.Jandurin

I almost fell out of my chair at the theater when they played SMB3 in the "finals" in that movie. I remember we left the theater and went to Toys R Us to preorder...and the name list was already 500 names deep. Madness.

Their is more competition now. The old Mario's had it to themselves and for the DS Mario well look at the hardware sales. Mario Galaxies will sell great and so wont Halo 3 but if I could only get one game well that would easily go to Halo 3.

BTW I own both Wii and 360.

AgileNate

You pretty much killed your argument with that line right there.

sheep are blind........ what a sad thredmattyomo99

How in the world does this add to the arguement?

You only seem to include the games decades old or the handhelds... if we think logically here, the last two console games didn't "DESTROY" any sales at all. Mario 64 sold more than Halo, but didn't "DESTROY" anything. It also had the advantage of being revolutionary as the first proper 3D platformer. Mario Sunshine failed quite awfully because it was just Mario 64 with improved graphics. I dont see how Galaxy is going to U-turn the series.

Bad thread.

Ninja-Vox

Did you see the gameplay video? Galaxy is nothing like Sunshine, and now the Wii has a larger userbase and this game has casual and hardcore appeal.

People used to buy systems for Mario games...that is not the case anymore. They(Nintendo systems) are now bought for cheap motion sensing thrills brought to life by mindless minigames. white_sox

It's impossible for the Wii system to take over 360 sales this year,that automatically makes it impossible for Mario galaxy to sell more than halo 3.blacktorn

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It's impossible for the Wii system to take over 360 sales this year,that automatically makes it impossible for Mario galaxy to sell more than halo 3.blacktorn

why is it impossible for the wii to over take 360 in overall sales this year?

These game sales are including re releases on other systems and rehash versions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Halo would have the same numbers if it was mad old and have a new game being released every year that's the same game with fatter plumbers.JedimasterNick

No it's not. :|

[QUOTE="blacktorn"]It's impossible for the Wii system to take over 360 sales this year,that automatically makes it impossible for Mario galaxy to sell more than halo 3.Ontain

why is it impossible for the wii to over take 360 in overall sales this year?

Because they can't manufacture enough maybe?

The only 3D Mario game to come out in the last 10 years sold less than both Halo games.

Don't get too far ahead of yourself. This isn't the 90s anymore. Mario doesn't dominate consoles like he used to.

[QUOTE="blacktorn"]It's impossible for the Wii system to take over 360 sales this year,that automatically makes it impossible for Mario galaxy to sell more than halo 3.Ontain

why is it impossible for the wii to over take 360 in overall sales this year?

[QUOTE="Ontain"]

[QUOTE="blacktorn"]It's impossible for the Wii system to take over 360 sales this year,that automatically makes it impossible for Mario galaxy to sell more than halo 3.blacktorn

why is it impossible for the wii to over take 360 in overall sales this year?

Because they can't manufacture enough maybe?

They're dishing out 1.5 million Wiis a month. I'd say that's sufficient.