Is Nintendo's third-party ecosystem really in danger?

[oniyide]

happydolphin said:

oniyide said:

sure, but the interest still should have been there, or at least maintained close to the number of people it had. I thought SSF43d would have done better personally

Yup, I don't disagree, I was just injecting facts to your analysis.

I wouldn't expect the same number maintained, but an interesting question would be was the DS one a launch game? If not, it's understandable to see lower sales since there is higher competition. In other words, in the GBA's sales there were many non castlevania fans. Other question, did the GBA have 3 versions of casltevania, I can't remember.

EDIT: Here, this might help:

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	Castlevania: Circle of the Moon	GBA	2001	Platform	Konami Digital Entertainment	0.60	0.22	0.05	0.02	0.89
3	Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow	GBA	2003	Platform	Konami Digital Entertainment	0.20	0.07	0.00	0.00	0.28
4	Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance	GBA	2002	Platform	Konami Digital Entertainment	0.16	0.06	0.04	0.00	0.26

that is a massive drop between the first GBA game and the 2nd