jarrod said:
Munkeh111 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Munkeh111 said:
Now GTA IV was developed in Edinburgh, with the help of the Rockstar games head office in New York. The writers themselves are based in New York, and so I think it only fair to consider it a western game.
If you look at the list of good selling franchises released by American publishers against the list of good selling Japanese games, and the US list is just going to win every single time. I haven't made a full list, because I have better things to do, but those are the first franchises that come to mind, but the key one is CoD, that alone sells 10 million every year. NFS sells 5m, Madden sells 5m FIFA has surpassed PES. There are plenty. On the Japanese side, most of the big sellers come from Nintendo, and then Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and PES, no others are that big
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REsident Evil is that big too!
And MGS4 is basically at 5 Million!
And then we have the monster Gran Turismo!
Thats 3 more I added
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You can't just look at individual titles, you have to look at franchise sales as a whole.
So we get a Gran Turismo game every 3 or 4 years, that sells 10m copies, but we get a CoD game every year selling that amount.
Resi sells well, about 6m for the last one, but it is so infrequent again.
The key thing for publishers like EA and Activision (and Ubisoft for Assassin's Creed) is they are producing yearly games which are selling these numbers, the Japanese publishers are taking a few years over each game
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GT Prologue also had about 5m, if we're going by "franchises" this gen, plus GT PSP around 2m. You could also add in the DS/Wii versions of RE1/RE4 for another 2m for Resident Evil. Plus the Chronicles spinoffs (another 2m ) if you want to branch out more.
And really, if we're doing franchise sales, Nintendo tops about everyone still, even though they don't have frequent sequels (Wii Sports @ 79m w/2 games, Super Mario @ 47m w/4 games, Mario Kart @ 40m w/2 games, Wii Fit @ 35m w/2 games, Brain-Age @ 34m w/2 games, Pokemon @ 32m w/3 games, etc)
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