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Also your Sparks of Hope number only represents physical copies sold in the first week in Japan only. It’s about 3 million now.

Might be worth double-checking your numbers across the board.

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Drat! I did not intend for this to become a long quest for accuracy. I do welcome the corrections, though.

It’s a little funny that the reason you wrote your own was because you found mine to be flawed, only to find out there were flaws in your own that might swing the whole conclusion you were hoping for!

To be clear, I'm not as invested into the conclusion as it may seem. The jabs in the direction of Mario 64 are mainly an attempt at humour. My actual preference is for the early white non-polygonal title designs.

But yes, this is Muphry's law in action. ;)

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