| oniyide said: Castlevania, IMHO it was never that popular of a series anyway, there was only one entry that sold more than a mil (not counting multiplats) and that was SoTN. I think those DS games problem was A they seem to try to capture the magic of the PS1 game, which will never work because people will always compare them to that and they will like SoTN better and just keep playing that and B there are too many releases they dont give the games time to move units and people will just wait cause they know they are going to put another one out anyway. The games are good though. Dont know what this new one on 3DS will do |
I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that Circle of the Moon broke 1m copies as well. I think it was on GT's retrospective they did a while back.
Kind of Edit:
http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episodes/l7v3qr/gt-retrospectives-part-iv--procession-of-portability
go to 9:40: 'The first GBA Castlevania did what it's forefathers could not; sell over 1 million copies'.
They don't expand on whether 'forefathers' is used to describe all previous Castlevania games, or just all previous handheld games in the series. However I wouldn't be surprised if SotN didn't break 1m copies sold, despite being my favourite castlevania game I have played. I imagine the game might've seemed backwards at the time for keeping 2d, maybe harming sales, I not sure to be honest.
