Talk:List of best-selling video game franchises

message: Is there a reason why sub series are included (for example wii sports is under the wii series and has a entered all on it own) Fan Of Lion King 🦁 (talk) 16:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I presume this to be the case due to the fact that there are several Wii Sports games released over the years. Evidently the distinction between series and sub-series can be quite blurred, so whoever added it must have thought it needed to be added. Pablothepenguin (talk) 21:09, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sub 

message: The Donkey Kong series as it is a sub franchise of Mario
:While I agree with the majority of the changes, this one is ridiculous. Let me tease it out to remove any confusion.
The Donkey Kong franchise begins with the original Donkey Kong (1981), which also happens to introduce the character Mario. Mario then is the main character in Mario Bros. (1983) which is the first game in the Mario franchise. The characters Mario and Luigi, along with certain other elements like turtles and pipes, are then used in the game Super Mario Bros. which is the first game in the Super Mario series. The Super Mario franchise is a subseries of the Mario franchise, but the Donkey Kong series is not. If anything, the Mario series would qualify as a subseries of the Donkey Kong series, but I think we can all agree that that would be overly pedantic of us and not representative of how the properties are treated now.
Nintendo even has a whole sub-series called Mario vs. Donkey Kong that treats the two as separate franchises that are crossing over. (Before you ask, I would technically consider the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games Donkey Kong games that feature Mario rather than Mario spin-offs, given the elements in common with the original Donkey Kong arcade game, but it's the hardest call for sure. Do we have a precedent for treating other crossover games a specific way? How do we treat Street Fighter X Tekken, for example?)
I would help with these edits, but I'm not familiar with this type of layout and I don't wanna break anything. --Pacack (talk) 05:14, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm working my way and updating the numbers for various franchises. When I get to Mario, I'm gonna split off Donkey Kong into it's own section. Not only does Donkey Kong precede Mario as stated above, but Nintendo as recently as 2023 has listed Mario and Donkey Kong seperately as franchises. In addition, the Mario franchise page on Wikipedia doesn't have Donkey Kong listed under its list of games. 67.85.222.175 (talk) 07:00, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Donkey Kong

message: Nintendo has released their latest update on sales of games, just saying, if you want to check that out and upgrade the list. GuyUser81 (talk) 22:06, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nintendo’s financial results. 

message: Should it be 30 million as the remake did 10 million? https://twitter.com/SpyroTheDragon/status/1697658224348967118 80.192.187.151 (talk) 00:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spyro the Dragon 

message: Not THE Sims, just the subseries, but like Mario, a broader Sims as a whole series by Maxis.
Including Sim City(all games), The Sims(all games) and the misc Sim games by Maxis and EA(SimAnt,SimWorld,SimFarm, SimCopter) 2604:3D09:1F80:CA00:996D:B20A:B4D5:86D9 (talk) 02:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we start gathering data for a 'Sims' series.