Because if you ask Nintendo fans how popular the series is, you'll generally get answers that suggest its some third rate series selling worse than Advance Wars and F-Zero.
However, that's actually not the case. For instance, do you know well the worst Wario Land games sold?
No? Well, Wario Land 2 and Shake It were the worst selling, and they sold more than a million copies. That's about as well as Metroid Prime 2 and Hunters, as well as significantly better than any Fire Emblem title prior to the 3DS era.
Decently selling Wario Land games (and a fair few WarioWare titles) have broke the 2 million mark, which puts them ahead of all but 2 Star Fox games and every Metroid title barring the original NES game and Prime.
And the original game? Well, that sold a fantastic 5.2 million copies worldwide. For comparison sakes, that blows many Zelda games (like the Wind Waker and Skyward Sword) out of the water and nearly matches what Super Mario Sunshine sold on the Gamecube.
So no. The Wario series isn't 'obscure' and it doesn't sell poorly either. It's actually a system seller on par with at least Nintendo's second tier titles, and can even threaten the likes of Zelda, Donkey Kong or Mario in certain situations.
Kind of like Donkey Kong itself really. Again, people really like to look down on the games and say they're 'lesser' than Mario or the likes, yet the original Donkey Kong Country outsold every game in the Legend of Zelda series and beats Metroid so tidily that it could almost be seen as business suicide for Retro to be working on a Metroid Prime game instead of a Donkey Kong Country one.
But what do you think? Do people generally underestimate how popular the Wario series actually is?
However, that's actually not the case. For instance, do you know well the worst Wario Land games sold?
No? Well, Wario Land 2 and Shake It were the worst selling, and they sold more than a million copies. That's about as well as Metroid Prime 2 and Hunters, as well as significantly better than any Fire Emblem title prior to the 3DS era.
Decently selling Wario Land games (and a fair few WarioWare titles) have broke the 2 million mark, which puts them ahead of all but 2 Star Fox games and every Metroid title barring the original NES game and Prime.
And the original game? Well, that sold a fantastic 5.2 million copies worldwide. For comparison sakes, that blows many Zelda games (like the Wind Waker and Skyward Sword) out of the water and nearly matches what Super Mario Sunshine sold on the Gamecube.
So no. The Wario series isn't 'obscure' and it doesn't sell poorly either. It's actually a system seller on par with at least Nintendo's second tier titles, and can even threaten the likes of Zelda, Donkey Kong or Mario in certain situations.
Kind of like Donkey Kong itself really. Again, people really like to look down on the games and say they're 'lesser' than Mario or the likes, yet the original Donkey Kong Country outsold every game in the Legend of Zelda series and beats Metroid so tidily that it could almost be seen as business suicide for Retro to be working on a Metroid Prime game instead of a Donkey Kong Country one.
But what do you think? Do people generally underestimate how popular the Wario series actually is?
