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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 audien ce is more mature, and therefore knowledgeable, than it was in 1998.
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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.
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I acknowledged that there are of course some people who buy both games. I'm starting to think that you and I have different definitions of the word "neglibible." So let's put connotation aside, and let me ask you this; Do you think the sales of Pokemon XY will be increased by over 1 million from people buying both versions?
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Probably. Negligible is anything under 30k for me. Regardless this is all just speculation. We can't ignore the fact that there are people who buy both versions of the game.
Also you keep spelling negligible wrong.
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Alright I fixed the spelling errors. Anyway, I was right about us having different definitions of "negligible." <-I got it right this time! You say anything under 30k, I would say anything under 150k. For Pokemon XY, that's less than 1%. Of course it can be noticed, but not a game changer. Pun intended. Now I don't see how there could be more than a million people who buy both versions. That's almost 10% of of the buyers. Could you explain how you think this could be the case?
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Does the word 'probably' mean anything to you? It just means that its possible. There's a chance. I didn't say that I feel that a million people will buy both versions. I think it's more along the lines of 100-250k. Also pokemon has a very huge fanbase so it wouldn't be out the question for the loyal fans to buy both versions.
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When you said "probably" I assumed you saying that in response to my question if you think sales are increased by a million from people who buy both versions. If you "think it's more along the lines of 100-250k" then I'm confused as to why you said "probably." Probably means more likely than not, but you seem to contradict that.
Anyway, if you think it's increased by 100-250k on a game that sold 11.61M in 2013, is that really such a big, or even notable difference?
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Apologies for that and my behaviour. I've had a very long day sorting out my work for tomorrow. You are indeed correct. When I said probably, I was trying to go for possibly lol I think the point that I was trying to get across was that we don't know the exact details of how many people bought both versions of the game. Taking that into account, it wouldn't really be a fair comparison to other games.
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Apology certainly accepted. Of course we don't know exactly how many people buy both versions, and of course technically it wouldn't be fair to compare them to other games for that reason, I was only making the argument that this technicality is meaningless when looking at the big picture.
