Best Selling Hardcore Games On Nintendo Platforms

[Gamerace]

happydolphin said:

Gamerace said:
I'm sure there's a lot of games missing here No More Heros outsold it's sequel as did Tatsunoko Vs Capcom but neither is listed.

Regardless, with the exception of Goldeneye (N64) this is really, really unimpressive. 3M is the best for any Nintendo home console ever? (By this def of 'hardcore') This truly supports 3rd Party claims that their games don't sell on Nintendo systems.

Does this help?

Pos	Game	Platform	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
8	Final Fantasy III	SNES	1994	Role-Playing	Square	0.86	0.00	2.55	0.02	3.42
11	Final Fantasy V	SNES	1992	Role-Playing	Square	0.00	0.00	2.43	0.02	2.45
14	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance	GBA	2003	Action	Square EA	0.82	0.37	0.89	0.05	2.13
15	Final Fantasy III	DS	2006	Role-Playing	Square Enix	0.84	0.02	1.07	0.08	2.00
17	Final Fantasy II	SNES	1991	Role-Playing	Square	0.24	0.09	1.33	0.12	1.77
18	Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles	GC	2003	Role-Playing	Nintendo	0.72	0.38	0.36	0.04	1.49
20	Final Fantasy III	NES	1990	Role-Playing	Square	0.00	0.00	1.39	0.01	1.40
21	Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings	DS	2007	Role-Playing	Square Enix	0.31	0.39	0.54	0.09	1.34
22	Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls	GBA	2004	Role-Playing	Nintendo	0.64	0.24	0.29	0.02	1.19
23	Final Fantasy IV	DS	2007	Role-Playing	Square Enix	0.46	0.01	0.62	0.04	1.14
24	The Final Fantasy Legend	GB	1989	Role-Playing	Square	0.00	0.00	1.10	0.00	1.10

Help make my point?  Yes.

3m back in the day was pretty good but FFVII sold over 9m on PS.   Nowadays it's common for any good title to sell over 2M+ on 360 or PS3 and some in the 5-6m range and of course the CoD/FFXIII/Halo's are higher than that.     Overall Wii sold a good amount of 'hardcore' games for a Nintendo system based on this but not compared to PS360.