| oniyide said: oh and how the heck is Sonic Mega Collection not the same product? they just added few features no different than any game that is a late port, by that logic you might as well count GE for PS360 as a different game than the Wii one or HOTD overkill or No More Heroes etc. And as for Sonic 4 here you go: "Speaking with VG247, Sega West CEO Mike Hayes stated that Episode I cleared over one million downloads across all the platforms,[40] with the PlayStation 3 version selling the most copies.[41] Direct from Wikipedia via Sonic Stadium website You compared a DS game to a PS2 game but i cant compare two different versions of the same game? Fair enough, thats still accounts for three games though. Sonic Heroes, Collection (your moving goal post with this one) and Sonic 4 |
Adding features to a late port makes it a distinct game, so better sales needn't be due to better market. Of course, if you add features to a late port, and don't remove any, and it makes a "better game", yet the game sells worse, it may be indicative of market issues (it depends on the extent of feature additions, etc).
For Sonic 4, as I said, we don't know the *extent* of the difference. It could be 300,000 copies on PS3, 290,000 on 360, and 280,000 on Wii, for all we know. Or it could be 900,000 on PS3, 80,000 on 360, and 10,000 on Wii. Without specific figures, we can't know.
And I didn't compare the DS game to the PS2 game. It was purely an aside, intended to emphasise that Nintendo platforms are a better home for Sonic games.
And best doesn't have to mean most. It can mean best relative to <something>, where the something could be install base, years on market, price, or one of many other factors. Which sold better - a game that sold 30 million copies at $50, or a game that sold 300 million copies at $1? It depends on how you define "better", of course.
