Why so many great DS games sold so poorly?

[Arlo]

Stellar_Fungk said:

Arlo said:

I never said they had the same people making up their install bases.  The 3DS released into a different climate with different people.

Ok, then where were these people during the DS era? RPG fans that bought these 3DS games were surley active rpg players during the DS generation. The PSP didn't get good RPG's till 2010ish (like Trails in the Sky, Birth by Sleep) so the DS had the majority of great RPGs in the beginning to mid and therefore themajority of RPG players.

The Dragon Quest games, Final Fantasy games, Chrono Trigger sold well on the DS after all. I think it's more about piracy and lack of marketing.

A lot of them were too young to appreciate such games, or to have disposable income.  A lot of them didn't know about all these games because of how many games there were, whereas the 3DS has a smaller but very strong library.  It's definitely also about piracy and marketing, but the demographic changes along with the industry.