, Mario has earned over $55 billion globally from merchandise, films, etc. The franchise is the second highest earning video game franchise just after Pokemon.<\/span><\/p>\nIn June 2024, the Mario franchise had sold over 900 million copies globally, making it the number one best selling video game franchise of all time. The main series had sold over 495 million copies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe most successful platform is the Nintendo Entertainment System, selling 61.91 million consoles. In 1985, The main Super Mario series began with the release of Super Mario Bros. Overall, this played a massive contribution to the franchise’s success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAmong related Mario games, Donkey Kong has generated the most income from the franchise, with 17,791,825 sales and $4,400,000,000 in revenue.<\/span><\/p>\nCommentary<\/b><\/h2>\n Neil Roarty, spokesperson of Casino Apps said the following about the data: \u201c<\/span>The Mario series is undoubtedly one of the most recognisable cartoons in the world. And with the 40 year anniversary of the Super Mario Bros game coming up in September, we thought it was relevant to conduct research on the different characters. With multiple generations experiencing the game over the years, it\u2019s still popular in 2025 and looks set to continue in popularity for years to come.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nMethodology<\/h2>\n Using Google Trends, we analysed search interest in 10 popular ‘Mario’ characters across all 50 U.S. states over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n
Google Trends measured each character’s popularity using an Interest Over Time (IOT) metric which can reflect search volume.<\/p>\n
The character with the highest IOT score in each state was identified as the most popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ahead of Mario Day on March 10th, Casino Apps can reveal each U.S. state’s favourite ‘Mario’ character. Using data from Google Trends, we have found the most popular \u2018Mario\u2019 character for all 50 U.S. states. We compared 10 characters, giving us an IOT (interest over time) rating for each over the last 12 months.\u00a0 Every … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":45879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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