| gcube2000 said: tough question.... Both will be front loaded and sell most of its units within the first year or two (just judging how its been for other games in the series) Smash Bros will have a month head start to have the advantage.. I think it could outsell Pokemon.. but lets look.. A lot of the 3DS Mario hits sold most of their units in the first year or two. That's very unusual because Mario games usually have great legs... Pokemon X and Y is having better legs than I expected. That's also unexpected because Pokemon games usually don't have amazing legs. Its going to be a hell of horse race but I think Smash Bros 3DS will sell more when all is said and done |
Reguarding legs/front loaded i disagree.
Start off with SSB. Aside from NSMB+MK SSB has one of the best legs in the industry. SSBM kept on selling for years to reach that 7mil+. As for Brawl it sold almost 8mil year 1 with over 1mil the following year and for years 3-6 sold more than half a million each. Those are insane legs. Selling 500k+ for 6 years in a row is crazy, even this year it'll sell 300k+.
As for pokemon situation, it doesn't have the legs like other Great Nintendo games but its there. They are just cut short due to pokemon being one of the only franchise (for Nintendo) that has mostly Annual Releases. But despite that, It still usually goes on to sell alot for at least 3 years. I mean Pokemon is like the only franchise where i never see the game go under $20 before its all said and done :) It goes up in price after 3-4 years on the market!
