"We Passed A Somewhat-Obscure Game About A Plumber" - Terraria Overtakes Super Mario Bros.

This makes me feel a bit less bad about torrenting Terraria when it was new and I was a cringe, poor 15 y/o. I had a ton of fun and I've now purchased the game a couple of times. Godspeed, Terraria!

Do we have sales numbers for the Super Mario Game & Watch Anniversary? That could bump up the number by a million or so.

I believe I received this game for Steam as part of a Humble Bundle probably 10+ years ago and have still never played it!

Nice. All those pre-digital-downloads games' numbers are still impressive, such as SMB, because in a premodern-connected-world, those numbers predominantly came from IP exposure, and word-of-mouth.

I also imagine the SMB G&W Anniversary would bump up the SMB numbers. I enjoy mine.

Not to diminish the obvious success of this game (though I personally tried it in 2015 and found it horrible:)

This particular milestone is only impressive when you flatten the 4th dimension and stack the numbers right next to each other, as they've done. There will never be another SMB no matter what the numbers say.✌️

(Thinking historically is like drawing in 3 pt. perspective. Ignoring history to make an easy point is like conversational fingerpainting.)

@Captain-N

it's also worth noting that SMB was also sold 1:1 physically, and also generally on one platform (at a time, at least, til that 1996 milestone,) and at "full price" as a AAA title.

Also there are 2.X billion more people in the world in 2024 than 96 😆 adjusting just for that puts Terraria way behind again lol

@-wc- yes, SMB is like The Beatles of video games and you really can’t compare against how the game was bought and sold, hard copies mostly for one piece of hardware. I realize it was pack-in success too, like Wii Sports, but that’s even more impressive as this game alone sold millions of consoles. Very impressive numbers for Terraria though; congrats on your continued success, developers.

"This was somewhat by design, as we had our sights set on doing so once we passed a somewhat-obscure game about a plumber and his brother trying to save a princess from this dragon-turtle thing..."

(question: "somewhat-obscure")

@Blast16

"it was pack-in success too"

yes and also remember that the NES was a total gamble, in the aftermath of "the collapse."

"that’s even more impressive as this game alone sold millions of consoles"

one could almost see the NES as a pack in success for being bundled with SMB rather than the other way around 😆✌️

@Mario500

(question: "somewhat-obscure")

FYI thats some light hearted sarcasm on their part ✌️

@-wc- “one could almost see the NES as a pack in success for being bundled with SMB rather than the other way around”

^^^The correct version of what I said lol 😂 you said it better 💯

If we still had VC this could have been staved off for a year or so. 😆

Terraria is addictive sandbox junk. I'm not saying it's bad, it's just not the same thing, or even close to it.

Fired up Terraria once for about 5 minutes had no idea what was going on and closed it. Still not compelled to give it another go.

@Thomystic

(question: "VC")

The year of its release, Super Mario Bros was only on one console: the NES. When Terraria was released, it was on two different platforms: Windows and the PS3, either of which was in more homes than the NES. And in subsequent years, Terraria was on Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo and Windows, while Super Mario Bros has always only been on Nintendo. So this "achievement" actually only shows that Super Mario Bros was the more popular game when it was relevant.