| mrstickball said: Mind telling me exactly how the Sonic series has done so much better now, on DS/GC/Wii than it did during the Genesis/MD era? Sonic 1 sold 800k units in 1991-1992 on just over 1.1m Mega Drive's in Japan. Sonic 2 did 500k units in 1992-1993. Sonic 3 did 590k in 1994. Sonic Jam did 250k on Sat in 1997 Sonic Adventure 1 on Sat did 1.3m in 1998-1999 Sonic Adventure 2 on DC did 350k in 2001 Sonic Advance did 203k on GBA in 2001 Sonic Adventure Battle on GC did 608k in 2001-2002 Sonic Advance 2 on GBA did 636k in 2002-2003 Sonic Mega Collection did 147k on GC in 2002-2003 Sonic Adventure DX on GC sold 194k on GC in 2003-2004 Sonic & The Secret Rings sold 24k on Wii in 2007 thus far Sonic software on Nintendo systems has sold 1.8m units in Japan. On Sega systems, it's sold 3.7m for the same number of games. Thefore, Sonic games on Sega systems has sold twice as well on Nintendo systems. I truely fail to see how I am wrong about my assumption(s). Not to mention the fact that only 2 Sonic games have sold over 500k on Nintendo systems, 1 handheld, 1 console. Care to back up pro-nintendo statements about Sega fans with actual numbers now? I've given you numbers - Sonic sold far better on Sega systems than Nintendo systems. Now, I just need to wait for some actual American data on Sonic games. Lets hope we can get some American data to compare. |
I think you got the comments of the others wrong. Nobody doubts that Sonic games would do best on Sega consoles, but because there are no Sega consoles anymore, the question is which of the systems left fits best, and at least for Sonic this is clearly the Wii. Platformers always used to be big on Nintendo consoles, and even if there were not that much of them on the GC i guess that the platformer fans are still buying Nintendo consoles.
I generally think that the Sega fanbase has shifted mostly to Nintendo because Nintendo's thoughts about gaming are just closer to the ones of Sega than Sony's are. It would have been the best anyway if Nintendo had bought Sega after the failure of the dreamcast, an alliance of this two old-school gaming companies would might have had a chance against PS2's dominance.
If Nintendo would stop making consoles, I would also buy a PS3, even if Sony is Nintendo's biggest enemy, because I think Sony is closer to Nintendo than Microsoft is.
