mrstickball on 19 May 2007
A quick note on some looking I did through the Japanese weekly charts: The tendencies of every game in human history that's a sequal has always driven hardware if the original was popular. I would sugguest, superchunk, that you go look at EVERY single game ever created that's a sequal, and see what effect that sequal has on hardware. There are always untapped markets of consumers that will buy a system for a major sequal. 2 quick examples: FFXII increasing PS2 sales by roughly 176% (24k to 66k). Monster Hunter Portable 2 increasing PSP demand by 325% (30k to 100k) Mousou Orochi increasing PS2 sales by 24% (not much, but proves my point as there were already 5 Mousou games out on PS2)
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
