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Farsala on 09 November 2012
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JWeinCom said:
Farsala said:
JWeinCom said:
 

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?


Smash came out 1st in January 1999. PS will come out 1st in Nov 2012. So 3 months. As I said people who did not play Nintendo probably only knew Mario.

My posts are pertaining to the topic at hand of course...

I honestly have no idea what the three months you're talking to refers to.

Unless wikipedia is wrong (which it is sometimes). Smash came out in Japan in January 1999. Pokemon came out sep 30 1998 (basically oct) in NA then 3 months later smash is out. So my original dispute was it would be improbable for pokemon to reach 30 mill before smash came out when 12m of its 30m came from NA (which only had 3 months to buy).