Avinash_Tyagi said:
JapanMan4 said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
^Actually yeah Monster Hunter was a failure on Wii compared to the PSP versions.
No all that other stuff is crap, if the marker considers a game good, then it will sell, if not then it won't, the highest selling 2D mario's were on consoles, so the idea that NSMB Wii can't outsell the DS version due to demographics and suitability is stupid, if it doesn't outsell the DS version, then it'll be because the market didn't consider it as good at the DS version |
It's not about failure because of a bad transition to console to handheld or vice versa.
You were generalizing the decline of the whole franchise because an iteration didn't perform aswell on a different platform.
And you were using that assumption as evidence as to why the PS3 version wont sell.
Here's another analogy.
GT psp didn't do aswell as the older GT's.
Does that mean that the franchise is in decline?
Not necessarily.
Does it mean the console GT version will not create a hardware bump or beat GT4 sales?
Seems unlikely considering how much people are anticipating it's release.
As you can see, it's an illogical fallacy to assume that it's an "end all" indicator of future sales or a decline in the franchise in general.
Now I'm not saying that Tekken 6 will sell boat loads considering into account the lack of hype for the game, but I doubt PSP sales for one iteration of the game is a good base to build upon for your argument.
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Ah, but i'm not ust using the PSP version, the PSP version is part of a trend, Tekken 5 sold less than 4 and Dark sold less than 5, now might 6 sell more, sure, but if not, it'll just show that there is a downward trend |
Yes, Tekken 5 did indeed sell less than 4 but it's a negligible amount which is inside the margin of error in sales tracking which is 10%.
Even if VGC is 100% accurate a difference of less that 10% between their sales would count more as "in-line" instead of "Decline".
Now portable sales we've mentioned is not an accurate representation of a console franchise's popularity or sales power as seen in GTA and GT.
So with that said, I really don't see a downward trend with this franchise in the PS2 era and it's hardware moving capabilities should not be discounted because of said trend.
