It is a considerably more diverse list in terms of genres, that's for sure.
It would have to sell more than triple what it already has, it's not impossble but we are talking 37 million units total just to get to mkwii's level.
This is strictly US sales. It's the same reason why Mario Kart 64 placed so high here, yet we've known for years that SM64 is the best selling N64 game worldwide.
Damit now you reminded me how I thought it would be clever if the successor to wii was wii 2. Then they could have the commercials show even more business men knocking on the door and saying
Nintendo knew exactly what they were doing with that bundle, but I don't think that even they could have anticipated the fervor for the Wii in its first three years to have had the results that it did to propel Wii Play to such heights.
You know that wouldn't be the case. Nintendo doesn't repeat some titles because there is clearly no reason to...
Brawl is right there.
Combined WiiU/Switch it's about 17 millions behind
Dang that is quite the opposite than.
IIRC, the graph that Nintendo released for overall game sales on the Wii painted the split between first- and third-party software sales was something close to 35/65. Third parties did very well on the Wii, but they weren't generally the kind of third party games that got message boards excited, like Carnival Games, Guitar Hero or Just Dance.
oh. Well both are/were full priced games so I think your metric holds up. Unless there's something about MK64 in dollar sales I don't know about lol
IIRC, Nintendo's own games generally hung around the $60 price point at launch, unless it was a situation where it had a pack-in accessory, like Star Fox 64 or Pokemon Stadium. N64 did really poorly in Japan and Europe, so it's not entirely inconceivable that a game like Mario Kart 64 could have overperformed in the US as a result of how much that region carried hardware sales for the system.
