"The DS numbers are HEAVILY biased thanks to 1.8M copies of pokemon going out the door. There is/was still plenty of money to be made on the DS.. I mean it WAS pokemon after all. Likewise, the number one selling console game in the month was a Mario platformer on Wii.... again, this will heavily skew numbers on that system especially at 350K and with few new releases (and 0 f***ing quality releases) on the system during the month.
You'll see similar type percentages from first parties on the XBox come September. This type of reporting is nothing more than flagrantly sensationalistic."---borghe
I agree wholeheartedly with the above statement, after Halo 2 launches we'll see how well 3rd parties perform on the 360. It's the exact same situation here. Since when has a new Mario title failed to perform market-wise on either the Nintendo handheld, or console side for that matter? Tiger Woods is at what, 200k in its 2nd week on the NPD? Zelda continuing to sell well? I'm shocked, as this is unprecedented. (TP has outlasted GoW, & both were released during last year's huge Nov. holiday period. 10th in overall sales currently is extremely impressive for a game 6 months old) Even PM:TTYD on the GC did 500k+ ltd. on a system not nearly 1/10th as popular. (TTYD which launched on October 11th of '04, when the installed userbase was 7.8million+) I'm not compairing a ww established brand franchise such as Zelda to a brand new IP, but Halo was also a brand new IP last gen & we saw how that sold.
"The things we touch have no permanence."
