@MeloMan Mario has been world icon for many years. He is principally the Mickey Mouse of video games resulting from Nintendo efficiently advertising and marketing the character to normal audiences of all ages.
There are extra individuals who do not even play videogames that know Mario than Sonic. It is not a shock like in any respect, his first film would do gangbusters on the field workplace.
Disney even on their worst day, would do far more than every other animation studio by model recognition alone. It would not matter if the Mario was an excellent movie, a mediocre movie, or a downright dangerous one. Nintendo is king of the household sport market so a Mario movie no matter it is high quality was going to be an enormous success.
Sonic on the hand does not have that broad of grasp on the household market. Sega’s demographic by no means solely targeted on household/ children. Sonic sport’s have been all the time targeted extra on a ten+ market and by being a number of platform, the franchise does not have a house console the place it may be marketed aggressively to a demographic.
Sonic not making a billion {dollars} in a single go was all the time an extended shot regardless. However the truth the franchise as a complete did properly on the field workplace is a hit on it is personal, and there actually no must convey Mario on this.
On a closing notice, Mario and Sonic cease competing a long time in the past. It is humorous how players maintain pitting these two towards eachother.