Wyrdness said:
twintail said:
the game and publisher support was still there for a good few years after the DS launched. Couple it with Nintendo made software and it would have been healthy.
One the best selling games on PSP was a late 2009 release: GT with over 4 million sales and yet VGC lists it at only 3 million. That is a large chunk of sales for 1 single game from 2009 onwards that your source is innaccurate. PSP still received game support, and still receives game support to this day.
No the majority of ppl expected the WiiU version to sell less when it was discovered that the 3DS version was going to release a good few months first. It was pretty obvious to everyone which version would sell better because of that scenario.
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Lets look at the scenario you're putting forward and use another example to highlight how it could have played out, so Nintendo keeps the GBA around and it gets a few more sales problem is with out the DS but then Sony may have taken hold of the portable market, the SNES was healthy when the PS1 and Saturn arrived but the result of that was that when the N64 came it was thrown in a losing battle by default against the PS1, Monster Hunter made its jump to PSP not long after it launched and that was a huge killer app for the PSP and the GBA at that point already had all its big guns out, MH could have done for PSP what the likes of Wipeout and Crash did for PS1. That risk was far too big for Nintendo to take and they were right as PSP sold GBA numbers for a while after launch, Playstation as a brand was a massively known factor in gaming at this point unlike with the SNES so the risk was even bigger.
That game highlights my point it's one of the best selling games so they have some numbers for it even if as you claim they're inaccurate the site indicates that it sold well.
Sorry but that'snot true as the majority of people didn't expect the portable version to sell more at any point because the Smash community are console based and fighting games on portables struggle, the earlier release was seen by people as an attempt to give the portable version a chance to sell as everyone expected the home version to demolish the portable version if released together and it's possible Nintendo may have felt the same.
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Atleast backup what you're saying lol. I certainly expected Smash 3DS to annihilate Wiius Smash hands down. Bigger user base and earlier release was absolutely retarded on Nintys part. It also served as proof Ninty doesn't give a damn about home consoles.
