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Teeqoz on 27 September 2014
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Pyro as Bill said:
Teeqoz said:

 

1. New Super Mario Bros. 2006 Platform Nintendo 11.15 9.00 6.49 2.86 29.50
2. Nintendogs 2005 Simulation Nintendo 9.04 10.89 1.93 2.74 24.60
3. Mario Kart DS 2005 Racing Nintendo 9.60 7.34 4.12 1.88 22.94
4. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day 2005 Misc Nintendo 4.73 9.15 4.16 2.04 20.08
5. Pokémon Diamond / Pearl Version 2006 Role-Playing Nintendo 6.35 4.41 6.04 1.36 18.16

DS 'only' got 4 20 million+ sellers, so no, unless it's a Wii Sports style mass-bundling, they can't sell 20 million+ copies of one game on handhelds anymore, because they'll never have a handheld tat rivals the DS's success.

Numpty.

It was those games that made the DS a success, not the other way round. What you're essentially saying is

'they can't make software that sells 20M because they'll never make a 20M system seller'


the 3DS has the sequels to two of the four 20 million+ sellers (at least, I don't know about Nintendogs.) Yet none of them are close to those numbers. Obviously those games largely drifted on the incredible success of the DS. What you're saying is akin to saying that

'it wasn't the motion controls that sold the Wii, it was Wii Sports that did it'

And the DS didn't have the fierce competetion of phones and tablets that the 3DS has now.