ToonHive is reporting this evening that the visually sumptuous The Super Mario Galaxy Movie from Illumination and Nintendo has now surpassed the worldwide box-office total of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. The news comes as Variety reports that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has now made $629 Million in cinemas worldwide since it launched on 1st April. This makes The Super Mario Galaxy Movie this year’s highest-grossing film to date, though there’s some big releases on the near horizon including Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Toy Story 5 and Avengers: Doomsday.
Thanks to SonicGalaxy27 for sending in the news tip!
In less time. I guess we could say “you’re too slow” ayo!
I liked this movie, but I wouldn’t say it’s good. Nice to see it’s doing well tho.
It’s impressive what they can do on such a small budget. 110$ million dollars sounds like nothing with how absurd budgets are for most movies these days with most of disney’s movies being around 200 to 300$ million dollars.
35 years later and Mario vs Sonic is still a strong rivalry. Love it.
Dude… It’s so Sonicover… I’m still hyped as hell for the fourth film though oh and find my pages.
Honestly I’m a little worried for the tone of the fourth movie. In another time, I’d be more hyped to see Amy and Metal but with the character assassination Sega is doing with Amy, I can’t blindly trust the experience to be pleasant. They’ve already ruined her in Frontiers and Crossworlds, and something tells me that the movie’s subplot will involve Sonic as a “teenager in love” situation with Tom and Maddie giving romantic advice to him.
D-don’t worry, Sonic bros. We’ll g-gettem in the next m-movie!
NINTENDO IS KILLING IT!?
No, you are killing everybody with your repetitive, dumb and cringe quotes.
Sega always wants to beat Mario, but it hasn’t happened since the original Sonic the Hedgehog
sonic never beat mario lol
and the console war is a over glorified gamer story just because they dissed eachother on tv.
You can put the NES (61m) and SNES (49m) sales vs EVERY sega console + handheld (around 90 million units total according to google) and nintendo still outdid them (110m). Didnt even have to include Gameboy and we know how that went.
mario bros nes sold 40m.
mario bros 3 sold 17m.
sonic 1 sold 15m.
mario world sold 20m.
mario 64 11m
sonic adventure 2m.
Sales don’t always mean much. I personally thought the direction Nintendo have gone with their games is pretty boring, and they’re doing it with all others: Giant deserts with not a great amount of content, it happened with Zelda, then it happened with Metroid.. and there’s a bunch of people who dislike both due to it. It looks like an attempt to pad out game length for lack of content.
Nintendo also have a habit of giving barely enough, still can’t create an MK single player mode as good as DKR had on basic N64 hardware, bare minimum effort with Mario Tennis, games that are too easy, games that have hand holding guiding trash items etc etc.. reviewers are often far too lenient on Nintendo games, or the fanboys just lap up whatever they put out.. almost as bad as the Apple cult with the games and the hardware.
The best Mario games are on NES, SNES, and possibly the 3D Land and World games. Mario Party is pretty good too because of the variety which Mario Kart usually lacks. It’s kind of like Smash Bros, a very shallow title with little depth. But people eat it up.
Let’s not act as if sales mean much when Pokémon and COD sell like crazy, doesn’t mean that they’re good.. they often aren’t.
For starters Custom Robo Arena is better than any Pokémon game. Tells you everything you need to know.
Rare also carried Nintendo massively during the 64 days due to the better games, they outclassed Nintendo’s efforts every time on their own machine:
Diddy Kong Racing -> Mario Kart
Banjo Kazooie -> Mario 64
Conker -> Mario 64.
Sales mean everything, they are literally the only thing that matters.
Your personal (and dogshit) opinions on whether a game is good or bad means absolutely nothing in the end. If it’s more popular and has made more money than it’s competition, it’s won.
This is objective fact. Cope.
By your logic, Mario Kart 8 would’ve been a bad game if they decided to make Mario Kart 9 for the Switch instead. Sales aren’t the end all be all, there’s plenty of stuff out there that have sold very poorly but are good. How do you explain sleeper hits?
“…and possibly the 3D Land”
You’re either trolling or have genuinely bad taste. 3D Land was awful, and 3D World fared little better (and, even then, it was mostly Bowser’s Fury the good mode than the game overall).
“Rare also carried Nintendo massively during the 64 days due to the better games”
Another lie. While BK (and, possibly, BT, although in BT they really stretched some things) did help a lot, Nintendo’s projects were still the better ones. DKR had unwieldy controls, especially the hovercraft, while MK64 still holds up strong to this day. Conker is the kind of game you play once and never again, besides multiplayer. As good as BK is, SM64 still is the better game due to being more open ended.
“Let’s not act as if sales mean much when Pokémon and COD sell like crazy, doesn’t mean that they’re good.. they often aren’t.”
Of course they are. As much as CoD got oversaturated, they’re mostly good games, barring the odd one out (and, even then, people are divided as to which CoD can be considered “bad)”. Pokémon has way more good games than bad ones, it’s just that we’ve got a string of bad games in quick sequence.
That sounds more like copium than valid critics.
Nintendo won in quality, sales, and popularity.
There is no debate lol Id rather play sonic adventure or sonic heroes over any mario game myself but Nintendo and Mario are miles better.
I don’t think Mario and Sonic ever had a strong rivalry. Mario was always better hands down.
I thought Sonic was way better in Mario in the 00s, but it’s been like 20 years since then. Sonic fell off hard in the 10s, but Mario also suffered to a lesser degree. I thought they were all pretty mediocre, even Odyssey that felt a bit like one of the Rareware N64 titles, but less well executed.
That is a crazy take.
Why didn’t you like odyssey?
Moons… everywhere. When a collectathon has the main collectible so overly mass produced it stops feeling good collecting them at a certain point. Bananza also has the same problem with having too many bananas. Same reason why I didn’t bother with the korok seeds.
That’s intentional. Having lots of Moons/Banandium Gems everywhere helps people who don’t care about “gotta collect them all” decide which ones to collect. Most collect-a-thons from Nintendo always worked like that: you could finish BK with 90 Jiggies, BT with 75, DK64 with 100 Golden Bananas, Mario 64 with 70 Power Stars, etc etc. The extras add to replayability as well.
That’s also valid for the Korok Seeds. They stop being useful once you get half of them. It’s practically on your “get everything” mentality if you exhaust yourself.
It being intentional doesn’t make it enticing. Out of all of the 3D Marios it’s the one I dropped the fastest because of it.
Alright, fair take. I do personally feel the same way with the Korok seeds.
??? the 00s had Mario Galaxy 1. Nothing Sonic has ever done in its entire history has even come close to being half as good as Galaxy. The Sonic Adventure games are overrated AF, they’re the only half-decent 3D Sonic games so people hype them up to be something they’re really not.
I’m sorry but this is an awful, awful take.
Mario 64 and Sunshine were better than Mario Galaxy, and I liked Sonic Adventure better than those two. It’s called an opinion
It’s called a dogshit opinion, actually.
Mario Sunshine is the worst of the 3D Mario’s, but even it is better than any of Sonic’s 3D outings.
Mario 64 has aged poorly with its clunky controls.
None of them come close to matching Galaxy’s incredible atmosphere, creative level designs, or it’s masterpiece of a soundtrack.
I’m not going to sugar coat it; you have horrible taste in games.
Im not going to pretend your opinions have any merit to them when theyre this awful.
Sorry not sorry.
Opinions can’t be dogshit when it comes to matters of taste. Grow up and get a grip.
Opinions can 100% be dogshit, as you’ve just proven.
I just simply like Mario 64 and Sunshine better than Galaxy because of how the game feels to me, it feels better to control Mario in them whereas Mario feels more stiff in Galaxy. In Sonic Adventure, Sonic feels even smoother than that. If you disagree and like Galaxy better than all of those, then you have your own reasons. It doesn’t make either of our preferences wrong.
There is no such thing as a bad opinion. Everyone has different takes, and that’s what makes us human. If everyone liked and hated the same thing, the world would be so boring. Just because you disagree with an opinion doesn’t make it bad. Someone like shinygold has an opinion that people like or dislike, but it’s not a bad opinion because they give their reasons why they have that opinion. Hopefully people will read this comment and will accept that everyone will not have the same opinion as them.
Nah terrible opinion
I’d say the only moments when Sonic was better than Mario was during the beginning of the 90s (SMW is a very good game but it felt more of the same, while Sonic 1 was a novelty) and the very start of the 00s, with Sunshine not being exactly good compared to the Adventure games (even if they’re the most flawed ones). However, besides that, Mario completely dominated Sonic, having consistently good games and mostly improving unto the formula instead of experimenting with everything to mixed-up results (which is the biggest flaw in the Sonic franchise).
Sonic suffered around when Shadow the Hedgehog got his own game, but there were still titles that I found really enjoyable like Sonic Rush Adventure. After that was when they really dropped the ball with both the gameplay and writing. I’ve accepted that the Sonic games will never go back to what they used to be at this point.
Sonic beat Mario in the early days, the OVA was far better than whatever the hell that garbage Mario movie was.. Lmao.
Sonic fans take their miniscule, meaningless victories whenever they can lmaoo 🤣
Sonic fans take their miniscule, meaningless victories whenever they can lmaoo 🤣
No surprise again. People will pay for Nintendo because Mario is more favored than Sonic and, on top of that, the third movie was such a lowdown compare to the second and the first movie (which had its own problems with the dumb roadtrip story part.) But it only shows how low the taste of people got over the run of time and we can thank Marvel movies for that and I predict that this won’t change in the next coming future. I hope, I really hope, that we can get some good movies with actually good stories, that challenge the viewer with compelling stories. This one still hopes, but hope can last forever when the future refuses to change.
Dude, are you talking about “challenge the viewer with compelling stories” in a family movie series? Lol.
It’s not supposed to “challenge the viewer”. It’s something the whole family can enjoy together. God forbid movies being just pure, mindless fun and, instead, having to come with extremely complex stories because people are still in the illusion of “complex = good”. And it’s funny you mention Marvel because their movies are so wrapped up into “challenging the viewers” that they completely lost their appeal as products because of that.
Glad that Nintendo, at least, still thinks of pieces of fiction as simply entertainment.
I mean, it doesn’t necessarily need to challenge the viewer, but I like having movies that at least have a cohesive plot. I ended up watching the first Galaxy movie because work was being done on the house, and I went out of it not understanding the hype… I’d give it a 3/10. The first Despicable Me is an example of a simple movie that is fun to watch
“First Galaxy movie”?
There’s only been one Galaxy movie you absolute retard 🤣
Meant to say first Mario movie. Give me a fucking break.
And I was in the middle of mentioning the first Mario movie and how I thought it was better than Galaxy, but decided against including it.
Don’t worry shiny gold, this idiot only finds joy in his/her life by making fun of people’s mistakes. I actually agree with your opinions, I prefer the first sonic adventure to the second, I honestly think Mario 64 and sunshine are better then galaxy. Ignore the idiots that make fun of your opinions, because there are people that agree with you.
Thanks Frost. Yeah I used to like Sonic Adventure 2 more than Adventure, but over the years I liked the level design of the first Adventure and Sonic’s movement better whereas Adventure 2 felt too stiff with the movement and too dark and grungy for the levels. I understand they were trying to set a tone with the overall game, but I just like Adventure’s more colorful levels better.
My friend, family movies can be challenging and good. What we nowadays have, is junk food for the brain, mindless and dumb down movie wirhout any reason or logic, no story or no deeper meaning. Just because it is a family or kids movie, doesn’t mean it can’t have deeper thoughts or a good story. Don’t be just happy with slop, ask for better things. Like Studio Ghibli for example. There was once quality in movies and stories, but somehow, people lost this ability to make good things. I don’t mind a flick like back in the 80s, but not every movie needs to be like this. Especially when it comes to children entertainment.