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zorg1000 said:

1. My last post said that handhelds have a higher chance of being rebought, we have already established that, but the overall point remains the same, all devices that have revisions and special editions will have people who own multiple units. 

Individually would those games have helped significantly? Probably not, but its the overall library that makes a device a worthwhile purchase, not games in isolation 2. so singling out a title that also happens to be a much smaller franchise than many of the ones i listed is extreme cherry picking.

I never said Nintendo IP alone will make a device sell 80 million, I said they carry alot of weight. I pointed out that this generation Nintendo has sold 80 million units of hardware and of the 400 million units of software that has sold on 3DS/Wii U about 200 million of it is from Nintendo IP so a very large number of those 80m are because of a desire to play Nintendo games.

I dont see how you can seriously say most 3DS/Wii U games dont sell well, They have 7 games that have sold over 10 million, 17 that have sold over 5 million (or will shortly), 25 that have sold over 3 million & 65 that have sold over 1 million.

1. Again. Saying that "well both have revisions" is clearly downplaying. It's like saying that "Ninty , too, relies on shooters. Look at Splatoon". The difference between unique owners of home console and handheld owners is  siginificant. It is so siginificant that you can't put these two together because you're donwplaying its effect on the total hardware sold of 3ds.

2. I gave an example. Obviosuly I'm not going to analyse each game you mentioned. That's not the only one though. I could have mentioned Luigi's mansion or some of the rest.

3. We all know that some first party games sell extremely well. Most of the rest that come out for them don't sell well at all. Ps4/xb1 constanly have games charting. Ninty every now and then. That wasn't the case with wii and nds which both sold software well.

But honestly, we're just repeating ourselves. If you have anything new to add, you may wanna post it on my wall.