Can Halo 3 Outsell Super Mario Bros. 3?

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VonGak! said:
Well it is a cool avatar, even the most hardcore xBox 360 owners will admit that. :D
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Hehe, thanks. When I put it up I hoped it wasn't going to be taken as a 'sign of the faith' or anything. I own one too, I just can't help finding it funny.
 
Wii Fit and SSBB will both outsell Halo 3.

Halo 3 will get 90% of its total sales this season.

It'll sell more than Halo 1, and less the Halo 2. It'll sell about 5 million in my opinion.
 
Prime crotch said:
Are people buying games without having consoles now?
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Halo 3 fans are buying multiple copies. It was our deal with Bungie. They threw in Rocket Races and we promised to buy a copy a month, starting with the Legendary, and working our way down in quarterly increments. By the time we're done, we'll be ready for Captain Master Chief and his Space Adventures in the Haloverse and its subsequent sequels and spinoffs. I'm looking forward to CMCahSAitH: Party! already being worked on by Krome.

And maybe they'll sell one or two more 360's.
 
Uh...how about we wait for Halo 3 to outsell Halo 2's first day.

edit: I DO think Halo 3 has a good shot of outselling GTA4 (hopefully) combined. At the moment, the only real contender to outsell SMB3 is, interestingly enough, Nintendogs. And to a slightly lesser extent, NSMB.
 
cortland_andrus said:
Wii Fit will outsell Halo 3.

Halo 3 will get 90% of its total sales this season.

It'll sell more than Halo 1, and less the Halo 2. It'll sell about 5 million in my opinion.
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Fixed. But, yes, I agree.
 
I'm still shocked how many people are downplaying SSBB, look at the facts:

-It's the sequel to a game that sold ~5 million on an underperforming platform. The Wii is on track to leave Cube (and N64) in the dust
-Comes out a bit more over a year
-Online play for the first time in the series
-Has a fanbase in all 3 major markets, not just the US
-Third-party characters introduced for the first time in the series

WiiFit may eventually sell more, but SSBB will be the best selling "core" game this gen.
 
AstroLad said:
Hmmm, WRONG. How many people above the age of 30 can you name that bought SMB3 primarily for their selves? I can name at least a dozen for Halo 3.
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Are you suggesting Halo 3 will outsell SMB3? To even entertain the idea...

The only thing I said was that Halo 3 does not appeal to everyone. can you honestly tell me all demographics will be able to enjoy Halo 3? Will grandpa enjoy it? Will all females be charmed by MC's shiny green armor?

I am not saying Halo 3 is a niche title. Its quite broad but dont try to say its for everyone or that it holds universal appeal.

AstroLad said:
Some people in here are really smoking the Nintendo Kool-Aid (mushrooms?).
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You arent exactly what I would call clean of the MS marketing hype.
 
:lol at this thread.

Seriously the only likely scenario is either a PS2 (not very likely) or a DS (very likely) game. Base units FTW here guys.
 
Nope, the userbase is too small. Even if it grows to 50 million in some years i still doubt it will make it. I'd say Super Mario Bros 3 reached out to a much broader audienced than what Halo did.
 
Halo 3 has no chance to outsell Mario 3. Mario 3 sold well everywhere. Halo 3 will only sell well in two territories (and one of those two isn't even that big on Halo).

There's just no way. You forget the hype surrounding Mario 3 when it launched. They had a movie, where the whole reason the movie was made, was to hype Mario 3.
 
no, mario is more approachable than halo therefore will have a bigger audience to sell to.
 
So it might not pass SMB3, but does anyone know if Halo 3 has a chance at becoming the highest selling game in the US?? I would asume that the majority of sales from Halo are in the US and Europe with asia countries not even making a mark...so Halo vs SMB in the US who wins?
 
one thing about the industry being a lot smaller back then meant that there was far more of a chance for one title to stand out. Nintendo and the NES was pretty much *the* entire industry back then, so Super Mario Brothers 3 could go crazy with sales.

Halo 3 will sell big no doubt, but I don't see it happening, with "video game" money being split so many different ways these days.

didn't read the whole post, so I have a feeling someone mentioned this already...
 
QuickKick89 said:
In the world of video games, there's only one premiere selling pinnacle, not including games with different versions or bundled with hardware. That pinnacle is Super Mario Bros. 3, which sold an outlandish 18 million copies upon release in 1990. Despite pushes from games such as Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, and others, nobody has been able to knock SMB3 from its pedestal.
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First released on February 4, 2000, the base game has sold more than 16 million copies, making it the best-selling PC game in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims

So theres your best shot, PC gaming ftw
 
I'm pretty sure the only games you could really argue have outsold SMB3 since it came out are The Sims and Pokemon, and even then only because of multiple versions of the same game (and then if you bring in all the SMB3 remakes, including the All Stars version, it's pretty much untouchable unless you count pack-ins). The only games that really have a shot have to be (a) on an incredibly dominant platform (yes PC fucking counts) and (b) super casual.
 
djtiesto said:
I'm still shocked how many people are downplaying SSBB, look at the facts:

-It's the sequel to a game that sold ~5 million on an underperforming platform. The Wii is on track to leave Cube (and N64) in the dust
-Comes out a bit more over a year
-Online play for the first time in the series
-Has a fanbase in all 3 major markets, not just the US
-Third-party characters introduced for the first time in the series

WiiFit may eventually sell more, but SSBB will be the best selling "core" game this gen.
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~5 million on the N64, yes, but 6 million on the Gamecube. Which is all the more reason not to downplay it.
 
Halo 3 will end up being top 10 all time in sales

but Mario Galaxy will end up selling more worldwide. It will have 5 million plus in 3 territories.
 
mr stroke said:
So it might not pass SMB3, but does anyone know if Halo 3 has a chance at becoming the highest selling game in the US?? I would asume that the majority of sales from Halo are in the US and Europe with asia countries not even making a mark...so Halo vs SMB in the US who wins?
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That may be possible (worldwide it'll never hit top 10, even), but I think it's still unlikely. I'll have to look at some US numbers at home, though, before I'd give odds.
 
QuickKick89 said:
In the world of video games, there's only one premiere selling pinnacle, not including games with different versions or bundled with hardware. That pinnacle is Super Mario Bros. 3, which sold an outlandish 18 million copies upon release in 1990. Despite pushes from games such as Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, and others, nobody has been able to knock SMB3 from its pedestal.

But there's never been an entertainment release like Halo 3.

It's not going to happen initially - there's only 10 million Xbox 360s sold worldwide. But it's pretty obvious that most people will start buying 360s now that it has a definitive killer app - and they'll be likely bringing Halo 3 along with it. Since Halo 3 will likely never be packed in with the 360 (due to its M rating), it's only going to find itself sold seperately. Based upon that, in 2-3 years, we could see Halo 3 take to the top of the list.

So what do you think?
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It wont. Wiifit will. Nintendogs is on its way to 18 million also
 
It would have to outsell the total # of Xbox360s to even have as many potential buyers as there were people who actually bought SMB3.

At 18 million out of 70+ million NES owners, Nintendo (who were well into the SNES gen) stopped counting, but that doesn't mean more were sold.

They'd have to beat the 3D GTAs, but as consistency for the series, it won't be done, much less trying to outdo Pokemans or SMB. They'll do fine regardless. :)
 
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