LordTheNightKnight said:
Michael-5 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Michael-5 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Michael-5 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Michael-5 said:
Metroid!
Metroid Prime sold 2.83 million, and the original NES Metroid sold 2.73 million. Every other mainstream Metroid game sold 0.7-1.7 million.
Halo.
Halo 1 sold 6.43 million, and now Halo 3 sold 11.14 million, with Reach expected to better it.
Forza Motorsport
Forza Motorsport 1 sold 1.07 million, Forza Motorsport 2 sold 4.02 million, and Forza Motorsport 3 is looking to do about the same.
Super Smash Bros.
the N64 version sold 5.55 million, GCN sold 7.08 million, and Wii version is at 9.61 million and growing.
Thats all that comes to mind except for Call Of Duty.
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You're missing the point. Only Forza really fits.
Metroid never broke through, and since the first game sold so closely, that means Prime doesn't have significant sales over a previous iteration.
Halo and Smash Bros broke through in the first game. Did you not read the whole OP?
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I did, and 2.83 million is a break-trough. It may not be blockbuster, but it was one of the best selling Metroid games.
Also Halo and Smash Bros are just less ectreme examples. Smash Bros wasn't that huge of a game on the N64, now it's the best selling fighting games. Same goes for Halo as well.
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It doesn't matter if it wasn't a blockbuster. The first sentence made it clear this is about significfant sales increase over the previous games, which the game did not have.
Plus Smash Bros sold about 5 million on the 64, which was a breakthrough, and Halo 2 had in between sales of the first and third game, showing a progression, not a breakthrough (again, already achieved by the first game).
Try looking at sales of all the games in the series you want to list.
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Well 2.8 million from 1.5 million is almost double. I think Metroid Prime made a significant sales boost over past titles.
I'll accept your logic about Halo and Smash Bros. I thought they would serve as less extreme examples, but I guess you want only the big cases. So I'll retrack Halo and Smash Bros.
However after FF, GTA, CoD, Forza, and Metroid, I really can't think of any franchises that had extreme sales breakthroughs.
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I meant any game in the series before it. So since the first Metroid game sold about as much, the breakthrough wasn't there.
BTW, the Halo and Smash Bros thing was related to me mentioning Mario Kart as an odd case. It also broke through in the first game, but selling so many millions more this gen showed it broke through twice. If Halo Reach achived something like 15 million sales, compared to just the 8 million of 2, that would also be a double breakthrough.
As for other series, some have been brought up already, like Monster Hunter. Didn't break a million last gen, and now is a multi-million franchise.
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Yea, but Metroid kind of became a small franchise for the 10 years plus between Metroid and Metroid Prime. It only got re-sparked because of Samus's appearance in Super Smash Bros.
As for this double breakthrough, Halo 1 only sold 6.5 million, so if Reach gets 13 million does that count? Also if Brawl gets 11 million (maybe a Platnium hits?) that would be double the original. Does that count?
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Okay, give a sort of resurgence for Metroid, but the lack of any games the previous generation still makes it muddy.
As for Halo, you're still forgetting 2 was also last generation, and again, that sold over 8 million.
Smash Bros also has to take Melee into account, and even 11 million for Brawl couldn't quite be enough.
Oh, and Mario Party, is another breakthrough. The first game was the previous top seller at 2.7 million, while DS and 8 sold over 6 million and over 7 million respectively.
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