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Soundwave on 30 October 2012

I just listed some of the better selling exclusive/premiere "hardcore" games off the top of my head, but it gives you a comparison to other platforms:

PSP:

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories: 7.14 million worldwide
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite: 5.35 million worldwide
Monster Hunter Freedom 3: 4.78 million Japan only
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories: 4.74 million worldwide
God of War: Chains of Olympus: 3.09 million worldwide
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII: 3.04 million worldwide

XBox 360:

Halo 3: 11.6 million worldwide
Halo Reach: 9.2 million worldwide
Gears of War 2: 6.54 million worldwide
Halo ODST: 6.04 million worldwide
Gears of War: 5.96 million worldwide
Forza Motorsport III: 5.11 million worldwide
Fable III: 4.85 million worldwide
Fable II: 4.08 million worldwide
Left 4 Dead 2: 3.54 million worldwide
Mass Effect: 2.69 million worldwide

Playstation 3:

Gran Turismo 5: 7.97 million
Metal Gear Solid 4: 5.69 million
Uncharted II: 5.75 million
Uncharted III: 4.69 million
Uncharted: 4.27 million
Killzone 2: 2.87 million
inFamous: 2.27 million



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happydolphin on 30 October 2012
RolStoppable said:
happydolphin said:
RolStoppable said:

I will propose a fun exercise for anyone who is willing to do the work. Compile a list with the same criteria for the PS1, PS2 and PS3.

How about a better exercise. How about stopping to criticize and doing the exercise yourself.

Fine with me. Here is the result: The PS1 did well, the PS2 did even better, but the PS3 shows a collapse. After Microsoft entered the game business in 2001, Sony took a huge hit with the PS3 which was an enormous step backwards in high selling "hardcore" content. PS3 has half the size userbase as the PS2, but was not able to bring Sony anywhere close to half of the success in this area.

Thank you. Whether you're right or wrong doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is that you put an honest effort in explaining your opinion in light of OP.



miz1q2w3e on 30 October 2012
happydolphin said:
RolStoppable said:

Fine with me. Here is the result: The PS1 did well, the PS2 did even better, but the PS3 shows a collapse. After Microsoft entered the game business in 2001, Sony took a huge hit with the PS3 which was an enormous step backwards in high selling "hardcore" content. PS3 has half the size userbase as the PS2, but was not able to bring Sony anywhere close to half of the success in this area.

Thank you. Whether you're right or wrong doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is that you put an honest effort in explaining your opinion in light of OP.

You call that an honest effort? XP



forest-spirit on 30 October 2012

I wouldn't classify Metroid as hardcore. You're a girl for pete's sake!



Jumpin on 30 October 2012

Hardcore = pornography with graphical focus on the act of sexual intercourse. These games are big in Japan; I am not sure if any exist on Nintendo consoles, maybe on PC.



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Soundwave on 30 October 2012

Playstation 2:

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: 20.84 million ww
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: 16.84 million ww
Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec: 14.88 million ww
Grand Theft Auto 3: 13.10 million ww
Gran Turismo 4: 11.36 million ww
Final Fantasy X: 8.06 million ww
Metal Gear Solid 2: 6.05 million ww
Final Fantasy XII: 5.96 million ww
SOCOM: Navy Seals: 3.06 million ww
Devil May Cry: 2.99 million ww

Playstation:

Gran Turismo: 11.15 million ww
Final Fantasy VII: 9.72 million ww
Gran Turismo 2: 9.36 million ww
Final Fantasy VIII: 7.86 million ww
Tekken 3: 7.16 million ww
Metal Gear Solid: 6.03 million ww
Resident Evil 2: 5.82 million ww
Tekken 2: 5.74 million ww

Resident Evil 3: 3.72 million



miz1q2w3e on 30 October 2012
Soundwave said:

I just listed some of the better selling exclusive/premiere "hardcore" games off the top of my head, but it gives you a comparison to other platforms:
PSP:
XBox 360:
Playstation 3:

Exactly how many Mario/Zelda games did you have to exclude from that list?



TruckOSaurus on 30 October 2012
happydolphin said:
TruckOSaurus said:
That's one of the worst definition of "hardcore" I've ever seen.

Good for you. Now propose an alternative that builds on OP rather than putting him down.

Okay, let me put it that way: the research done to get the sales of all the games is commendable but the selection of said games seems to have been done so the results would prove his final point. His rules conveniently exclude games that would go against his conclusion like New Super Mario Bros. Wii or Mario Kart Wii or Super Smash Bros. Brawl.



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Soundwave on 30 October 2012

For fun, SNES games as I recall, hard to get numbers this far back:

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior: 6.3 million ww
Street Fighter II: Turbo: 4.10 million ww
Final Fantasy III (VI Japan): 3.42 million ww
Killer Instinct: 3.2 million ww
Chrono Trigger: 2.9 million ww
Super Metroid: 1.42 million ww

Super Star Wars, Super Empire, Super ROTJ, Super Castlevania (phew), Contra III would probably have to be considered, I can't find numbers for those though.



Turkish on 30 October 2012

Pretty low numbers.

 

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (GameCube): 470k worldwide

 

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