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Jranation on 18 September 2017
poklane said:
Why do people even still respond to X1Gates? Every time I see him post here it's nothing but spouting pro-XB1 bullshit and/or shitting on PS4.

Theres always 1 or more user in an MS/Sony/Nintendo fanbase that does that....... and still don't get banned



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Pavolink on 18 September 2017

BotW is the successful story of the year.



Proud to be the first cool Nintendo fan ever

Number ONE Zelda fan in the Universe

DKCTF didn't move consoles

Prediction: No Zelda HD for Wii U, quietly moved to the succesor

Predictions for Nintendo NX and Mobile


tbone51 on 18 September 2017
Pavolink said:
BotW is the successful story of the year.

Nah Switch itself is a bigger story. :P

 

I need to bumo that Zelda 10mil seller thread soon



DonFerrari on 18 September 2017
Jranation said:
poklane said:
Why do people even still respond to X1Gates? Every time I see him post here it's nothing but spouting pro-XB1 bullshit and/or shitting on PS4.

Theres always 1 or more user in an MS/Sony/Nintendo fanbase that does that....... and still don't get banned

As far as I remember VGC policy and rules allow for exagerated supportive comments and behavior and doesn't allow excessive negative. That is probably why he isn't banned.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Jranation on 18 September 2017
CGI-Quality said:
Jranation said:

Theres always 1 or more user in an MS/Sony/Nintendo fanbase that does that....... and still don't get banned

I don't see anything that's worth banning right now. 

And thats the thing. Someone is getting pissed about the comments a user continually  makes but mods cant do anything......  Anyway im dropping this since its off topic. 



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Flilix on 18 September 2017
Lawlight said:
palou said:

The wii stuff, Pokemon, if you consider it to be Nintendo. Just do a blank search on VGChartz, and look at a couple of the top games.

Yeah, the closest they have is less than half GTAV's sales. And that was during the casual era which they weren't able to re-capture with the WiiU or 3DS. The closest is a Pokemon game pair at roughly 16M.

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/

24 out of the 30 best selling games of all time are Nintendo games. 5 of the 6 others are GTA games.

Nintendo will probably never make a game that can outsell GTA 5 (since they're tied to only one console), but they still have better chances to do it than anyone else.

By the way, the best selling Nintendo game is at 82.5 million, which is just as much as GTA 5.



tbone51 on 18 September 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
tbone51 said:
The only company that could rival GTA in sales would be nintendo but obviously in rockstars case it has an overwhelming advantage

Activision?

Their COD games sell what 20-30m a year? Now if they were to release them 4-5 years apart instead of every year and were to have regular updates in that time period (ie. same release pattern that GTA has) it's not unrealistic to think they could have GTAV kind of legs.

True i could see that. Too bad we will never kno lol



DonFerrari on 18 September 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
Flilix said:

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/

24 out of the 30 best selling games of all time are Nintendo games. 5 of the 6 others are GTA games.

Nintendo will probably never make a game that can outsell GTA 5 (since they're tied to only one console), but they still have better chances to do it than anyone else.

By the way, the best selling Nintendo game is at 82.5 million, which is just as much as GTA 5.

Giving things away free =/= selling

And that list you linked is wrong anyway since it only includes a single platform...

I agree with you, but in the case of Wii Sports, that was basically the purpose to buy the console, it sold a lot in Japan where it wasn't bundled.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 18 September 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
DonFerrari said:

I agree with you, but in the case of Wii Sports, that was basically the purpose to buy the console, it sold a lot in Japan where it wasn't bundled.

Based on VGC (which I assume gets its Japan figures from MC/Famitsu) it sold 3.77m in Japan. Which while good means about 70% of Japanese Wii buyers didn't want it. If the same had been true in the west (and they weren't forced to have it regardless of whether they wanted it (yes, I'm still bitter about being forced to have a game I didn't want!)) then the amount it would have actually sold would be nowhere near the likes of GTAV.

Yeah sure... 30-50M possible total sales for WiiSports without bundles... but comparing to 80+M is silly. We can count them the Tetris sold worlwide on several pirated versions that count upward 100M or facebook games and say they outsold GTA V but we know it is a bad comparison just to win a point.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 18 September 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
DonFerrari said:

I agree with you, but in the case of Wii Sports, that was basically the purpose to buy the console, it sold a lot in Japan where it wasn't bundled.

Based on VGC (which I assume gets its Japan figures from MC/Famitsu) it sold 3.77m in Japan. Which while good means about 70% of Japanese Wii buyers didn't want it. If the same had been true in the west (and they weren't forced to have it regardless of whether they wanted it (yes, I'm still bitter about being forced to have a game I didn't want!)) then the amount it would have actually sold would be nowhere near the likes of GTAV.

Yeah sure... 30-50M possible total sales for WiiSports without bundles... but comparing to 80+M is silly. We can count them the Tetris sold worlwide on several pirated versions that count upward 100M or facebook games and say they outsold GTA V but we know it is a bad comparison just to win a point.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."