Farsala said:
JWeinCom said:
Farsala said:
fillet said:
To simplfy further, is that even possible?
Obviously I'm talking about people who play video games, wtf else would I be talking about?
Most of them would not recognize most of this roster. That means, most PS3 owning gamers too, it's just common sense, these are not recognizable people, it's not hard to put yourself in the mind of the average person that owns a PS3...sheesh. Obviously there are hardcore types who will know all those characters, but the MAJORITY will not know more than half. That is very important for a game.
I mean the appeal of a fighter is it's characters or branding.
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Kind of a ridiculous post. If you reverse that and average person that owned a N64 who knew the characters before release. Most would just say Mario. It is obvious that Sony does not have a Mario, but they have lots of moderate known people like smash did.
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Lol. Do you really think all of those people who know Mario didn't know Luigi and Yoshi? Do you think they didn't know who link was when Ocarina of Time sold over 7 million copies? Do you think there are many people out there who weren't familiar with Donkey Kong? Do you think that people didn't know who Pikachu and Jigglypuff were when Pokemon Red and Blue sold 30 Million copies and Pokemon was the most popular thing on planet Earth? Do you think that people didn't know who Star Fox was when Star Fox 64 sold 4 million copies? Even Kirby had a five million seller under his belt and regularly pushed out about 1.5-2 million copies per game. Ditto for Samus.
The only characters you can claim were really obscure in that game were Captain Falcon and Ness. Silly post is silly.
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Lol. And reverse. I admit nintendo fans will definitely know smash people before getting it. Sony fans definitely know majority of the people in PSASBR. And just because you threw out numbers....
God of war 20m- more recognizable then all but pokemon and mario
Uncharted 15m- same as above
Ratchet and clank 15m- same as above
Jak and daxter 10m- same as above
Parrappa= to Falcon and Ness
Twisted metal 10m- same as above
Bioshock 8m- Decent
Btw I didnt know pokemon did 12m in NA alone in 3 months as your post would suggest.
Need I go on? silly post is silly
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Smash came out in April 1999. Pokemon was the end of september 98. So, it was actually 7 months. Considering how popular Pokemon was, unless you were living in a cave from the time Pokemon came out to the time smash came out, you knew who pikachu was. Plus the game had been available in other regions for a couple of years by that point.
And I never said anything about Nintendo characters being more recognizable than Sony's. I was just pointing out the sheer idiocy of someone claiming that people playing Smash Bros were not aware of DK, Luigi, Link, Pikachu, and so on. Are you trying to defend that position?
