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Nintendo's Money Makers

Financial In Market Sure we all know Zelda, Mario and Pokemon are popular, but how did that popularity translate to game sales this past year or so? Ninteno lets loose the hard facts about it's biggest characters.

Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire GBA
6.12 million in 2003
12.78 million in total

Mario Advance 4 GBA
2.59 million in 2003
2.59 million in total

Mario Kart Double Dash GC
3.58 million in 2003
3.58 million in total

Mario Party 5 GC
1.64 million in 2003
1.64 million in total

Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker GC
1.31 millions in 2003.
3.33 millions in total.

On top of that, have you ever wanted to know what the all-time shipment figures are for ALL the Mario and Zelda games?

Super Mario series
Handheld: 9 titles, 54 million copies
Console: 10 titles, 102 million copies
Total: 174 million copies

Legend of Zelda series
Handheld: 5 titles, 12 million copies
Console: 7 titles, 30 million copies
Total: 42 million copies

Donkey Kong series
Handheld: 7 titles, 15 million copies
Console: 10 titles, 28 million copies
Total: 43 million copies

Pokemon series
Handheld: 11 titles
Total: 91 million copies

Yeah, that's a lotta games.

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