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naznatips on 10 September 2007
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Legend11 said:
naznatips said:
I'm comparing between like titles in the same generation to show future performance in the next generation Legend. You are trying to compare the sales of two titles across a generation as signs of the sales for ANOTHER generation above that. That's a pretty large stretch of logic. That's like me saying FFVII sold 9.72 million so FFXIII will sell that much... even though that would be completely ignoring the much more recent and relevant data one generation in between. You are going back too far to be statistically accurate in a direct software comparison is my point.

I was trying to compare the first game in one series to the first in another instead of comparing the second game in the Super Smash Brothers series to the first in the Halo series. Basically I was showing that each game in one series was outselling the corresponding game in the other. Ignore it though since it's obviously not logical.


No, it's not logical. You compare games by using the closest matches you can find. Halo and Melee are much closer matches than Halo and SSB. You are comparing cross-generation when there is a clearly present title that not only was the same generation but at the same time in each console's respective life. Again, going back that far when there are more recent and relevant examples makes no sense, and you are only doing it because the more recent evidence doesn't show some huge unbreakable advantage for Halo that you want it to.

my point was that i think game eventually will(should?) come out as different price points. if the wii is all about casual gaming 40-50 dollars is about the sweet spot. i think 'hardcore' gamers would be willing to pay alot more for a halo three. that is why they have the three different editions. rainbow six users ended up paying 80 dollars for their game with the expansion packs.

btw alot of you guys are serious fanboy nerds

Ripper, my point is that you seem completely unaware of what Brawl is. It's not a casual game... if anything it's the exact opposite. It's a game built for people who have been playing games for 20 years plus. I doubt your kids (or even you) know who the Ice Climbers or Mr. Game and Watch are. Smash Bros is a series built around those who play many different genres of games and many different games on Nintendo consoles. Not to mention you are comparing the value of the game with Halo 3 based on Halo 3's inclusion of online, when Brawl has a very good chance of being online multiplayer as well. The day people tell me a game with Solid Snake in it is made for casuals is the day I lose faith in humanity...

Oh, and it's pretty stupid to call someone on a video game sales website a nerd. If you don't get the irony, there isn't much purpose in explaning it to you. For the record, I own both Halo games and both smash games, so I don't see how the person who has played all games in both series is the fanboy, rather than the person judging a game they know nothing about, who's predecessors they have never played.