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kooltrex on 11 March 2016
Lawlight said:

SNES Gen:

 

PS1 Gen:

 

PS2 Gen:

 

PS3 Gen:

 

PS4 Gen (so far):

I can agree with all of your list except the end Killzone?! Is that a joke?



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Lawlight on 11 March 2016
kooltrex said:
Lawlight said:

SNES Gen:

 

PS1 Gen:

 

PS2 Gen:

 

PS3 Gen:

 

PS4 Gen (so far):

I can agree with all of your list except the end Killzone?! Is that a joke?

Well, I'm still going through my PS3 backlog so I haven't played a lot of other PS4 games. But the MP in KZ:SF was amazing. I was obsessed with that MP - it was that good. So frantic and epic.



curl-6 on 11 March 2016
Ruler said:
curl-6 said:

Street Fighter 2, FF7, MGS2, COD4, and Destiny are actually NOT the highest selling games of their generation, or even their respective consoles, so that's not a fact.

so granturismo made an higher impact than FF7? it barley sold more and made the lesser impact

Street Fighter II sold more than Super Mario World if you count in the Aracdes and how much money they generated, it vastly outsold Nitendos franchises

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=Street+Fighter+II&publisher=&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

Destiny sold the most if you count in all the DLC

So now you're trying to count DLC and revenue as game sales?

Those games were not the highest selling games of their respective console generations, simple as that.

You can try and argue they were the most influential, which is highly debateable, but to say they were the highest selling is proveably incorrect.



Ruler on 12 March 2016
curl-6 said:
Ruler said:

so granturismo made an higher impact than FF7? it barley sold more and made the lesser impact

Street Fighter II sold more than Super Mario World if you count in the Aracdes and how much money they generated, it vastly outsold Nitendos franchises

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=Street+Fighter+II&publisher=&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

Destiny sold the most if you count in all the DLC

So now you're trying to count DLC and revenue as game sales?

Those games were not the highest selling games of their respective console generations, simple as that.

You can try and argue they were the most influential, which is highly debateable, but to say they were the highest selling is proveably incorrect.

eh why shouldnt i count money into it? This is after all what video companys work for

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_industry

arcades were close to home market sales and even surpassed them in 1996, this is a fact its not proveeably incorrect

1996

$44 billion (worldwide)

$26 billion (worldwide arcade market)[118]

$18 billion (worldwide retail market)[119]

$64.39 billion (worldwide)
1995

$29.32 billion (worldwide)

$15 billion (worldwide retail) [28]

$9.52 billion (Japan arcade)[120]

$4.8 billion (US arcade)[104]

 $44.17 billion (worldwide)
1994

$29.3 billion (worldwide)

$20.8 billion (worldwide retail sales)[121]

$8.5 billion (US arcade & rentals)[104]

 $45.4 billion (worldwide)
1993

$29.3 billion (worldwide)

$19.8 billion (worldwide retail sales)[121]

$9.5 billion (US arcade & rentals)[104]

 $47 billion (worldwide)
1992

$27.915 billion (worldwide)

$18.045 billion (worldwide retail)[122]

$9 billion (US arcade) [29]

$870 million (UK arcade)[123][124][125]

$46 billion (worldwide)
1991

$12.73 billion (US & Japan)

$8.1 billion (US total)[104]

$4.63 billion (Japan retail)[30]

 $21.46 billion (US & Japan)
1990

$17.9 billion (worldwide)

$13 billion (worldwide retail, Nintendo with nearly 90% market share) [30]

$4.9 billion (US arcade)[104]

 $31.44 billion (worldwide)


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COKTOE on 12 March 2016

Oooh man. That's tough honestly. No matter if I were to use your criteria, or one more personal, it would be difficult to narrow a choice down to one game that defines a generation. I like your choices, with the exception of Sonic The Hedgehog. I'll try to get back to this thread later.



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curl-6 on 12 March 2016
Ruler said:
curl-6 said:

So now you're trying to count DLC and revenue as game sales?

Those games were not the highest selling games of their respective console generations, simple as that.

You can try and argue they were the most influential, which is highly debateable, but to say they were the highest selling is proveably incorrect.

eh why shouldnt i count money into it? This is after all what video companys work for

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_industry

arcades were close to home market sales and even surpassed them in 1996, this is a fact its not proveeably incorrect

1996

$44 billion (worldwide)

$26 billion (worldwide arcade market)[118]

$18 billion (worldwide retail market)[119]

$64.39 billion (worldwide)
1995

$29.32 billion (worldwide)

$15 billion (worldwide retail) [28]

$9.52 billion (Japan arcade)[120]

$4.8 billion (US arcade)[104]

 $44.17 billion (worldwide)
1994

$29.3 billion (worldwide)

$20.8 billion (worldwide retail sales)[121]

$8.5 billion (US arcade & rentals)[104]

 $45.4 billion (worldwide)
1993

$29.3 billion (worldwide)

$19.8 billion (worldwide retail sales)[121]

$9.5 billion (US arcade & rentals)[104]

 $47 billion (worldwide)
1992

$27.915 billion (worldwide)

$18.045 billion (worldwide retail)[122]

$9 billion (US arcade) [29]

$870 million (UK arcade)[123][124][125]

$46 billion (worldwide)
1991

$12.73 billion (US & Japan)

$8.1 billion (US total)[104]

$4.63 billion (Japan retail)[30]

 $21.46 billion (US & Japan)
1990

$17.9 billion (worldwide)

$13 billion (worldwide retail, Nintendo with nearly 90% market share) [30]

$4.9 billion (US arcade)[104]

 $31.44 billion (worldwide)

Sales and revenue are not the same thing. The games you specified were not the biggest sellers of their respective console generations, so that statement was technically incorrect.



Ryng on 12 March 2016

Only after 3rd gen.

3rd - Super Mario Bros 3
4th - Super Mario RPG
5th - Super Mario 64
6th - Super Smash Bros Melee
7th - Super Mario Galaxy 2
8th - Splatoon

Yes i'm a Nintendo fan



Angelv577 on 12 March 2016

My GOG for each gen I played:
SMB3
Mario kart
RE2
DBZ budokai 3
COD MW
The witcher 3



Ruler on 12 March 2016
curl-6 said:

Sales and revenue are not the same thing. The games you specified were not the biggest sellers of their respective console generations, so that statement was technically incorrect.
Ruler said:
curl-6 said:

How is that any more objective than anyone else's list?

well i tried to be the most objective despite me hating Destiny and Call of Duty, and never playing FF7. These are the most selling and most played games and the most genre defining games who spread many clones and other similiar games. Not an opinion, fact


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curl-6 on 13 March 2016
Ruler said:
curl-6 said:

Sales and revenue are not the same thing. The games you specified were not the biggest sellers of their respective console generations, so that statement was technically incorrect.
Ruler said:

well i tried to be the most objective despite me hating Destiny and Call of Duty, and never playing FF7. These are the most selling and most played games and the most genre defining games who spread many clones and other similiar games. Not an opinion, fact

But they're not the most selling.