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Tachikoma said:
okr said:
It's already at number 4 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games ) and isn't even released on PC yet.

not bad when you consider number 1 costs $.099, number 2 came bundled free with almost 80% of consoles and number 3 has been released on virtually every non-nintendo platform imaginable.

V will in the end double the sales of San Andreas and is without a doubt already the game that made the most revenue ever.

(But as you decided to make fun of Wii Sports: Remember that this game achieved something different and arguably even more impressive than GTA V: It's the biggest system seller of videogame history).



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okr said:
It's already at number 4 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games ) and isn't even released on PC yet.


After it crosses Minecraft its gonna be the best selling game of all times (excluding Wii sports and tetris for obvious reasons)



deserves every single sale it gets. an excellent game after the medicore GTAIV.



Tachikoma said:
okr said:
It's already at number 4 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games ) and isn't even released on PC yet.

not bad when you consider number 1 costs $.099, number 2 came bundled free with almost 80% of consoles and number 3 has been released on virtually every non-nintendo platform imaginable.


Exactly.



Its very impressive. I don't think it deserved such high sales though.



    

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@Ka-pi: There is not even the shadow of a doubt that Wii Sports is the biggest system seller ever. This is not up for debate.

BTW: When I said that V already made the most revenue ever, I forgot about another game that became a worldwide phenomon ages ago: I hope we some day see revenue comparison GTA V vs. WoW.

So for the time being I change my statement to:
GTA V has made the most revenue ever for a single game (not counting World of Warcraft).



Ka-pi96 said:
okr said:
Tachikoma said:
okr said:
It's already at number 4 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games ) and isn't even released on PC yet.

not bad when you consider number 1 costs $.099, number 2 came bundled free with almost 80% of consoles and number 3 has been released on virtually every non-nintendo platform imaginable.

V will in the end double the sales of San Andreas and is without a doubt already the game that made the most revenue ever.

(But as you decided to make fun of Wii Sports: Remember that this game achieved something different and arguably even more impressive than GTA V: It's the biggest system seller of videogame history).

Yeah, GTA V has the revenue record without a doubt.

@Bold not necessarily true. The fact that it wasn't optional means it can never be proved to be the biggest system seller, it also can't be proved not to be, but saying it is is based on assumptions so it being the biggest system seller isn't a fact.

Indeed, and I don't really see how stating the obvious is "making fun of wii sports". you can't just say "x heavilly bundled game is the biggest system seller in videogame history", because it's a misnomer, anyone who wanted a Wii at certain points in time, even if they did not want or plan to play, wii sports, would be getting the game bundled in for free anyway, so lumping every single sale of a wii that just happened to have the game bundled, as "see, they bought the game for wii sports" is an extremely contorted view to have.

That's like saying the PS2 pad is the biggest system seller in history, it's just fudging the situation to ensure a win.



 

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