Will Pokemon XY Be The Highest Selling Title on 1 Platform This Entire Generation?

[aryu]

garretslarrity said:

aryu said:
I think it's unfair to compare 2 Pokemon games to a game such as Halo. Some people buy both versions of Pokemon but will only buy one copy of Halo.

Sure, some people do.  Though I think that it's fair to say that there are so few of those people that when we're talking sales numbers, they're neglibile.  You mentioned in a later post how someone can buy both games out of confusion, I bet this happened a lot in the first generation, but now people are more familiar with how things work around here, and also the audience is more mature, and therefore knowledgeable, than it was in 1998.

You do make a good point but what about parents who were never gamers? You can't just assume people would be familiar with how things work. Not everyone has played Pokemon so the mistakes made in gen 1 are likely to happen in any gen. Also, the game wants you to collect pokemon so people are sometimes inclined to buy both and grab all the legendaries. I don't think that it's negligible as you state.