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Pineapple on 29 January 2012
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axumblade said:
Pineapple said:

That's a nice list. As you asked for what you missed, here's a couple that beat some of the ones you listed.

Mario & Sonic (although this one is debateable as a new IP)  - 22.78 million

Imagine - 19.7 million

Cooking Mama - 14.63 million

MySims - 12.18 million

Big Brain Academy - 10.22 million

High School Musical - 8.83 million (excluding the Ps2 games)

Carnival Games - 8.00 million

 

Edit: Oh, and depending on how you count it, the Lego series might count for this generation too, as the first proper Lego game launched after the DS was released. It's at around 34 million not counting the Ps2 games.

Imagine is already on the list.

Also, I wouldn't count Mario & Sonic because those could be classified under Mario Sports games (though technically it was made by Sega so it might still count...).

He also might be viewing MySims as a version of The Sims.

And he also included Big Brain Academy in the Brain Age listing (which if that's the case, then the other Nintendo brain teasing games should be listed as well).

Cooking Mama and High School Musical do seem to qualify I think...Carnival Games would qualify if it weren't for the fact that either of those 2 IPs would kick both Carnival Games and Bioshock off the list.


You're right. No idea how I missed all of that, so thanks for pointing it out.

I'd have to disagree with Brain Age and Big Brain Academy. They're the same genre, and made by the same company, but that doesn't make them the same franchise. They're highly different games, and made by different studios at Nintendo.

Edit: You're also going to have to find out what to make of Nintendo's mental training franchises. It's sort of hard to define stuff like Flash Focus: Training, English Training, Personal Trainer: Cooking and such. They're all training games made by Nintendo for the DS. Are they all part of the same franchise, or are they all different franchises? They're made by the same company, and are all training oriented. They're just as similar as each other - some actually more - as the Wii series is.

You have the following games, and probably some more

Personal Trainer: Cooking, Personal Trainer: Math and Personal Trainer: Walking totalling up 5.39 million. Then there's Flash Focus (3.77 million), English Training (3.33 million), Common Sense Training (1.71 million).

The three Personal Trainer ones are obviously one IP (they share a name), but the other 3 are a tad harder to tell.

 

You could also probably just as well put Zumba Fitness up there now as a series. It's currently at only 6.83 million, but it's already sold 550,000 in 2012. It's easily going to pass 10 million for the generation, and is probably likely to shoot past 15 million too.

There's the "EA Sports" franchise, too. It's at 8.7 million, and looking to pass 10 million as well.