S.T.A.G.E. said:
the_dengle said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
When I say the SNES was more popular, I meant their core games and games for the family were equally popular on the Wii it wasn't equal at all and the third party titles were not helping anything.
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I don't know about that, but I guess it depends on what you consider "core games." Surely Super Mario World was a "core game," right? Wouldn't it be alright to compare its sales to NSMBW? What about Mario Kart?
Barring those, you've got Twilight Princess outselling A Link to the Past, Metroid Prime 3 outselling Super Metroid, Smash Bros. Brawl outselling every game in the SNES library sans 1.
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Nintendo during the SNES had games for everyone because they had the third parties and they had the Nintendo first party. Most of the core games were made by third parties. I mean yeah, some games like MK had the blood taken out of it to save their family image, but you get the picture. Nintendo makes games casuals and core gamers alike can get into, but third parties tend to push controls in a more complex direction and I believe thats where core games started with the MK's, Killer Instincts, Contra's and teen and up games of that ilk. Games that took a certain level of skill, I guess.
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Man, I just don't get your definition of "core games." Nintendo lost a lot of third parties to the Genesis that generation, and that was when they had only one competing console to worry about. I don't think you're taking the competition into account -- of course Call of Duty didn't sell very well on Wii, there were much better versions of the game available for competing consoles.
Suggesting that Super Metroid and A Link to the Past are not "core games" is blasphemy imo.
