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AstroGamer on 10 September 2012
Jay520 said:
Chark said:
PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale confirmed megaton seller. Move over PlayStation Move Heroes, there's a new kid on the block.


Actually, the rule doesn't apply. 'Playstation' isn't the name of the console. 'Playstation 3' is the name of the console. 'Playstation' is just the name of the brand.

If there was a game with 'Playstation 3' in the title, that game would do 20 million easy. 


it's not because it has the console but because Wii gained a lot of publicity and became a brand name. People buy typically Levis and other major brand names for jeans no just any old pair. The same applies to Wii. Playstation hasn't really gotten that much GOOD publicity to incite that PASBR will become a best seller.



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ninjabake on 11 September 2012

Nice try it was thoroughly entertaining but the jig is up. LOL I can't believe others bit the bait.



Galaki on 11 September 2012

Uncharted Wii for the PS3 will sell 20 millions!



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Blacksaber on 11 September 2012
Jay520 said:
Metallicube said:

Decent joke thread, but done before. 

really? are you sure?

I do remember another thread along these lines a year or so ago.



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voty2000 on 11 September 2012

I don't think it's Wii as much as two i's together. When you see ii you think two I's which signifies two people together. Since all gamers are single overweight males the ii sends a subliminal message to your brain and makes you think you'll be together with someone. When you actually play the games you really connect with the Mii's (again 2 i's) or the Mario characters so you get hooked.

Nintendo uses this method so you'll search out more Wii games instead of looking for a female thus keeping you hooked. Then, the single overweight males pick a fight with Jay520 and beat him up because they are so frustrated from being lonely.



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cyberninja45 on 11 September 2012

Even this thread is doing well because it has wii in the title.



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Conegamer on 11 September 2012

Wow. My eyes have been opened. I guess Nintendo are doomed now, because it obviously wasn't because these games were either bundled with the console, or heavily advertised, or successors to other highly successful games, no, surely not.

And, of course, the sales CAN'T be higher on the Wii than the GC because the Wii sold more than 3x as many systems as the GC, could it? No! It's because they have Wii in the title, and the other games with Wii in the title which didn't sell well? We can ignore them! They don't count! Yay!

Using logic, here



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Conegamer on 11 September 2012

Oh, and yeah, this thread was done before. Can't remember who, but it was early last year. I'll see if I can find it because I believe I posted in it, at some point...

I guess why do you need to be original when you can just throw "Wii" in the thread titles and get thousands of hits?



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

man-bear-pig on 11 September 2012

Conegamer said:
you can just throw "Wii" in the thread titles and get thousands of hits

 

Noted...



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

TWRoO on 11 September 2012
Jay520 said:
TWRoO said:

I couldn't be bothered to read the whole OP as I suspect the general premise stems from your thoughts in the other thread (in which I already replied... kinda surprised you bothered to make a thread about it unless it's some kind of joke)
However I wanted to point out a small flaw in your Wii > GC comparison: Userbase. Mario Kart for example has a wide appeal so the larger the number of people with consoles capable of playing a Mario Kart game, the higher MK sales will be (in the case of MK64, DD and Wii it seems to be around 30-35% of users) The other 3 games don't have quite as wide an appeal, but they are still not niche games so when the userbase increases so will the games sales.

Can you prove those statements?

Not with facts, because to do so would involve taking a poll of MK users and comparing it to the other games (well there may be studies done of that kind, but I am not willing to look for them)... but it is common knowledge that Mario Kart appeals to younger, older and more female gamers than the average game, many Nintendo games are designed to have a broad appeal.