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*Sound Of Rain on 04 September 2010
Viper1 said:

Pikmin were never expected to have Mario or Zelda like sales for 2 reasons.

1. Mario and Zelda had over 15 years of a growing fanbase to work with.

2. Pikmin was established on Nintendo's lowest selling home console ever.


If you look at the ratio of install base to software sales, you'll see Pimin didn't do to bad when compared to Zelda.

NES (61 million | Legend of Zelda (6.5 million ) = 10.6%
SNES (49 million) | Link to the Past (4.6 million) = 9.4%
N64 (32 million) | Ocarina of Time (7.6 million) = 23%
N64 (32 million) | Majora's Mask (3.4 million) = 10.6%
GC (21 million) | Wind Waker (4.6 million) = 21.9%
GC (21 million) | Twlilight Princess (1.6 million) = 7.6%
Wii (74 million) | Twilight Princess (5.7 million) = 7.7%

GC (21 million) | Pikmin (1.6 million) = 7.6%

So your saying that Pikmin didn't do all that bad for the console it was on since it started on Nintendo's least selling console? So the Wii is Nintendo's best selling Home Console so Pikmin 3 should get a growing fanbase and outsell both Pikmin 1 and 2.



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Viper1 on 04 September 2010
*Sound Of Rain said:
Viper1 said:

Pikmin were never expected to have Mario or Zelda like sales for 2 reasons.

1. Mario and Zelda had over 15 years of a growing fanbase to work with.

2. Pikmin was established on Nintendo's lowest selling home console ever.


If you look at the ratio of install base to software sales, you'll see Pimin didn't do to bad when compared to Zelda.

NES (61 million | Legend of Zelda (6.5 million ) = 10.6%
SNES (49 million) | Link to the Past (4.6 million) = 9.4%
N64 (32 million) | Ocarina of Time (7.6 million) = 23%
N64 (32 million) | Majora's Mask (3.4 million) = 10.6%
GC (21 million) | Wind Waker (4.6 million) = 21.9%
GC (21 million) | Twlilight Princess (1.6 million) = 7.6%
Wii (74 million) | Twilight Princess (5.7 million) = 7.7%

GC (21 million) | Pikmin (1.6 million) = 7.6%

So your saying that Pikmin didn't do all that bad for the console it was on since it started on Nintendo's least selling console? So the Wii is Nintendo's best selling Home Console so Pikmin 3 should get a growing fanbase and outsell both Pikmin 1 and 2.

To a large extent, yes.  Because the fanbase is built from those earlier titles, the percentage will certainly drop but the total units should go up.  Provided it is well marketed.  2 million is not out of the question for Pikmin 3 if it's given a high marketing priority.



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*Sound Of Rain on 04 September 2010

Thats good because in my personal opinion the Pikmin franchise is the best franchise ever created and deserves Mario like sales but I know that won't happen but 2 Million would be low for what it deserves but high considering its Pikmin.



jarrod on 05 September 2010

For a console RTS exclusive to a 3rd place system that only sold around 20m, I think the games did about as well as possible.  How many console RTS sold better, even on PS2?



*Sound Of Rain on 06 September 2010
jarrod said:

For a console RTS exclusive to a 3rd place system that only sold around 20m, I think the games did about as well as possible.  How many console RTS sold better, even on PS2?


I just looked it up and according to this site Pikmin is the #4 best selling Home console Strategy game of all time only being outsold by:

#3: Halo Wars            #2:Pokemon Stadium 2               #1:Pokemon Stadium



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kopstudent89 on 08 September 2010
*Sound Of Rain said:
jarrod said:

For a console RTS exclusive to a 3rd place system that only sold around 20m, I think the games did about as well as possible.  How many console RTS sold better, even on PS2?


I just looked it up and according to this site Pikmin is the #4 best selling Home console Strategy game of all time only being outsold by:

#3: Halo Wars            #2:Pokemon Stadium 2               #1:Pokemon Stadium

Beaten by only pokemon and halo... not bad!



hentai_11 on 08 September 2010
*Sound Of Rain said:
jarrod said:

For a console RTS exclusive to a 3rd place system that only sold around 20m, I think the games did about as well as possible.  How many console RTS sold better, even on PS2?


I just looked it up and according to this site Pikmin is the #4 best selling Home console Strategy game of all time only being outsold by:

#3: Halo Wars            #2:Pokemon Stadium 2               #1:Pokemon Stadium

The Pokemon Stadium games are turn based. So it's even the second best selling console RTS, only beaten by Halo Wars. Wow.



*Sound Of Rain on 08 September 2010
kopstudent89 said:
*Sound Of Rain said:
jarrod said:

For a console RTS exclusive to a 3rd place system that only sold around 20m, I think the games did about as well as possible.  How many console RTS sold better, even on PS2?


I just looked it up and according to this site Pikmin is the #4 best selling Home console Strategy game of all time only being outsold by:

#3: Halo Wars            #2:Pokemon Stadium 2               #1:Pokemon Stadium

Beaten by only pokemon and halo... not bad!

Yup not bad at all!