Mazty said:
tbone51 said:
Mazty said:
curl-6 said:
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.
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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 Expecting people to stick to an outdated forumla through nostalgia this time around is wishful thinking.
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i like how you tell people to show you proof, but then you go around saying stuff without proof lmao. Mid 20's? Really?! I was 12 years old playing SSBM with lots of people in their 20's. Its very competitive game tht also suits casuals. Where is your proof that mid 20's dont play SSB? WTH seriously pls dont ask others to prove something while you cant do the same. 1 last thing, 12% in gaming is a huge success, A FREAKING HUGE SUCCESS!!! cuz in your logic every game failed on PS2, when thats the best console ever made.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/140575/article.html
Woops, I meant late 20's. People at that age outgrow nostalgia do they not?
http://mynintendonews.com/2012/08/01/the-average-gamer-is-30-years-old/
Average gamer is mid 30's.
Enjoy proving SSBB sold milions of consoles. Lawl. GLHF.
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In the case of super smash bros we can actually just look at the sales figures to figure out whether or not the series is popular and if it has the potential to sell consoles; http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=super+smash+bros
SSB1 sold roughly 5m
SSB2 sold roughly 7m
SSB3 sold roughly 11m
This gives us an indication that the series actually is GAINING fans and popularity. It stands to reason that the series has a standing fallowing that play each installment, and that should mean that people in their 30's are willing to play the next installment as well. It's not all about nostalgia; people play this game because they think it's good, or else it wouldn't see growing sales.
Let's compare this to other fighting games; Tekken has sold 39m over 20 games on multiple platforms, and Street fighter has sold 31m over 40 games on multiple platforms, while Super Smash has sold 24m over 3 games only on Nintendo consoles. All according to VGC. This tells us that people actually thinks that SSB is the BEST fighting game out there since it consistently sell more copies per installment than the best selling fighting franchises out there. And don't it stand to reason that the best game in a genre would sell some consoles if it were exclusive (which SSB actually is)?
