Could someone explain it to me ? (Ps2 sales)

[binary solo]

RolStoppable said:

binary solo said:

It did. Actually it was worse for DS, because Nintendo pretty much sucked out all the oxygen. 24 of the top 30 games are all Nintendo published. Highest selling non-Nointendo published game was Cooking Mama at 5.5 million. Compare to PS2 where the top 2 selling games are 3rd party (GTAs at 20 and 16 million) and 25 of the top 30 games are 3rd party.

Also 6 of DSs top 30 are Pokemon, and 7 of the top 30 are Pokemon.

And aside from the top top selling games PS2 did better in individual game sales. PS2 had 38 games sell over 4 million. DS had 21 games sell over 4 million.

So the picture is really no different for DS, and is arguably worse.

Why does a distinction between first and third party software even matter?

You've basically shifted the goal posts to a point where the PS2 could come out on top.

But where is all the innovation that has lead to large amounts of sales of new and interesting games for DS? It also matters that 6 of the top selling games are more or less the same game but with slight variations (Pokemon). And many of those Mario games are merely continuations of franchises from previous generations (mario kart, NSMB DS, Super Mario 64). And there's DQ IX, which if I'm not mistaken is the 9th game in the franchise.

There's really no evidence to show that new and innovative games fared all that well on DS, apart from a handful of exceptions, compared to how PS2 games sold. The vast majority of great and excellent games sold <3 million on DS and PS2. So there's no real difference and DS isn't a special snowflake because it has a large number of amazing innovative games that sold 10s of millions of copies, or even a large number of amazing innovative games that sold over 5 million.