Nintendo's down, but not out.

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Mazty said:

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Brawl was a gargantuan system seller. There is no doubt at all. If you understand the Nintendo player base, you'll understand that millions of consoles were sold on the promise of that game. A 400k spike on the release date is only the tip of the iceberg, most were sold before that based on hype, and after based on word of mouth and playing with friend's copies. To understand this you need to understand the power of what the game embodies; not only the representation of the childhood/teenage years of millions of gamers thru Melee, but it epitomisation of the local multiplayer casual-core bridging social experience that has been Nintendo's main source of sales since the N64.

Do you have any evidence for this whatsoever? Because the sales, looking at just the raw sales, it isnt backed up whatsoever and looks to be complete speculation. 

Those millions of gamers are now hitting their mid-twenties, in other words too old to be investing in consoles for one game as they are busy doing other things. Also MP has evolved past local play and gone online, something Nintendo games have not done. Expecting people to stick to an outdated forumla through nostalgia this time around is wishful thinking.

The evidence was written all across the internet and the offine gaming scene throughout 2007 and 2008. No offense, but if you don't see it then you clearly weren't in touch with the Nintendo side of gaming around that time. The evidence is in the Wii's massive 2008 hardware sales.

People being tipped into buying a console by one game =/= buying it JUST for that game. It only has to be the straw that broke the camel's back.

And you underestimate the continued power of local play; at parties and social gathering with friends, people still cluster around a screen to play in fours. This social aspect can't be replicated by playing with people thousands of miles away.