Can Pokemon Black/White have a record 1st week?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Games4Fun said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

CoD, Pokémon, Halo, Mario doing always the best first week and lifetime sales... Do console and portable gaming actually ever evolve?  Oh, just  looked at the lifetime totals and Nintendogs is a quite recent top seller. So no, it neither evolves nor remains the same, it's actually devolving...

PC is ready to disrupt the gaming world again! But this time smartphone gaming will help it doing a pincer movement! The battlefield will be littered with Pokémons' mangled little corpses!   

I really have to ask when did PC disrupt gaming the first time...

During the previous console crises. It also disrupted itself with the first widely successful FPS, Doom, and years after, Quake, that also strongly tied FPS and graphics progress (in this case consoles, not having upgradable GPUs, weren't subject to FPS and graphics upgrades mutual feedback, so they weren't affected, it took MS huge marketing, Halo, and making a console very similar to a PC for FPS to become huge on consoles too, actually creating from nothingness the market segment of console FPS enthusiasts). It disrupted the gaming again in general with online multiplayer, also mass launched by Quake, to the point that often devs have to tack, or at least promise, multiplayer to games born to be SP, it launched MMOGs and I'm surely forgetting something. Oh, yes, flashgames, browser games and social networks-based games, for example. The online avatar craze, it started on PC far before Miis. An embarrassing record, patches, successively copied by consoles, that in the past had games released when they were debugged and reliable enough. Networking also for gaming on portables.

All these things could have just been evolutions, but they often brought disruption, I guess this happened each time they arrived when gaming was stagnating.

Now the gaming world is ripe to be disrupted again, because the biggest publishers let marketing and not gaming elements costs go out of control, bloating cannot continue indefinitely, while indie or generally nimbler companies are thriving without the problems of the fossilized giants, and they do their best on PC, and smartphone gaming is growing too on the most casual front. Not the whole console world is at risk, and Nintendo always avoids bloating like the plague, but the most tired, milked and watered down series and the publishers counting on them could suffer the most. But also the most solid series could eventually meet newer and fresher ones that, without necessarily killing them, replace them at the top, and the more gaming grows, attracting people with tastes not catered for previously, the more the probabilities grow.