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Salnax on 24 August 2012
bananaking21 said:
Salnax said:
bananaking21 said:
Salnax said:
bananaking21 said:
this is just the 3DS line up for this holiday?


Yeah, that's all I was focusing on.


i dont wanna start a flame war or anything so dont nobody start with me lol but is it me or does the vita's holiday line up seem better?


Oh yeah. I'm a 3DS fan, and am unlikely to buy a Vita anytime soon, but looking at the current lineup for the Vita, it looks stronger than the 3DS's.

On the Vita's side, you have half a dozen or so potential million sellers: Madden, Fifa, LittleBigPlanet, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, PSASBR, and Ratchett and Clank. On the 3DS side, you have Paper Mario, Layton 5, Scribblenauts, and Epic Mickey.

Honestly, I'd almost say the Vita deserved to sell better this holiday except for one word: Mario. This is going to be a 2D Mario's first holiday season. The Vita has nothing to compete with that combined with already existing evergreen titles in addition to the new lineup.

well doest littlebigplanet compete with the 2D mario games? it actually provides more content then both of them combined (in any games defense LBP offers more content than any game in the world i think expect MMO's)

Theoretically, maybe. In pratice, LBP games are outsold by Mario games by a ratio of at least 5 to 1, despite the LBP games' critical praise. It's less competition and more slaughter.



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bananaking21 on 24 August 2012
Salnax said:
bananaking21 said:
Salnax said:
bananaking21 said:
Salnax said:
bananaking21 said:
this is just the 3DS line up for this holiday?


Yeah, that's all I was focusing on.


i dont wanna start a flame war or anything so dont nobody start with me lol but is it me or does the vita's holiday line up seem better?


Oh yeah. I'm a 3DS fan, and am unlikely to buy a Vita anytime soon, but looking at the current lineup for the Vita, it looks stronger than the 3DS's.

On the Vita's side, you have half a dozen or so potential million sellers: Madden, Fifa, LittleBigPlanet, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, PSASBR, and Ratchett and Clank. On the 3DS side, you have Paper Mario, Layton 5, Scribblenauts, and Epic Mickey.

Honestly, I'd almost say the Vita deserved to sell better this holiday except for one word: Mario. This is going to be a 2D Mario's first holiday season. The Vita has nothing to compete with that combined with already existing evergreen titles in addition to the new lineup.

well doest littlebigplanet compete with the 2D mario games? it actually provides more content then both of them combined (in any games defense LBP offers more content than any game in the world i think expect MMO's)

Theoretically, maybe. In pratice, LBP games are outsold by Mario games by a ratio of at least 5 to 1, despite the LBP games' critical praise. It's less competition and more slaughter.

ohh your talking in terms of sales, i was comparing the games them selfs. 2D platformer with another 2D platformer



Salnax on 24 August 2012
bananaking21 said:

ohh your talking in terms of sales, i was comparing the games them selfs. 2D platformer with another 2D platformer


Sorry for any misunderstanding. I assumed you were talking about sales too because this was in the Sales Forum.



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VicViper on 24 August 2012

Code of Princess: 3 million copies with ease

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WiiBox3 on 24 August 2012

I have a feeling Skylanders might break 1mil.



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the2real4mafol on 25 August 2012

New Super Mario Bros 2 - 4 million
Paper Mario: Sticker Star - 1.8 million
Professor Layton 5 - 900,000
Skylanders Giants - 700,000
Scribblenauts Unlimited -1.5 million

Quite amazing how short the 3DS of key titles, even now . it's lucky to have mario



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Chandler on 25 August 2012

NSMB2 - 8 million
Sticker Star - 1.1 million
Layton 5 - 0.8 million
Skylanders Giants - 0.5 million
Scribblenauts Unlimited - 0.3 million
Fluidity - 1 million
Code of Princess (US only) - 0.1 million
Epic Mickey - 1.2 million
Style Savvy - 0.6 million
Harvest Moon - 0.7 million
Adventure Time (DS) - 0.3 million
Pokemon B2/W2 (US & EU only) - 3 million



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