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quickrick on 18 April 2018
peachbuggy said:
quickrick said:

laughable. how many games have broken over 5 million for animal crossing? only 2 in the past 18 years. Lets look at every entry in both franchises. its not even close, 3d mario is much bigger.

mario 64 11.9 million

mario 64 ds 11.09 million

mario sunshine 6.31 million

mario galaxy 12.7 million

mario galaxy 2 7.7 million

mario 3d land 11.7 million

mario 3d world 5.75 million

mario odyssey probably 18 million ltd. 

 

animal crossing.

 

2001 GameCube Animal Crossing 2.32 million[1]
1.68 million in US, 641,300 in Japan[2]
2005 NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World 11.75 million[1](March 2015)
2008 Wii Animal Crossing: City Folk 4.32 million [1](December 2013)
2013 3DS Animal Crossing: New Leaf 11.59 million[3] (September 2017)
2015 3DS Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer 3.04 million[4]
2015 Wii U Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival <<1 million

 

 

 

 

Animal Crossing (Mainline) games are historically bigger than 3D Mario, at least in terms of sales. You have had that shown/proven to you in the past with figures. Your table shows 2 games which were both spinoffs and major cashgrabs, especially Amiibo festival. As for the Wii version, yes that had subpar sales but the impression i got for that was because the game buying public saw it as too similar to wild world. If you want to do comparisons, then compare wild world and New leaf with past 3D Mario titles, as these were the mainline Animal Crossing iterations for their respective consoles. Admittedly in any other metric 3D Mario is bigger and yes, i'm sure the next Animal Crossing will have a tough time competing with the masterpiece that is Odyssey. However, if the trend of Nintendo franchises selling  best ever figures on the Switch and if the next AC is truly groundbreaking and is a great game, then, sure it has a shot at beating out Odyssey in LT sales.

 

As for Smash Switch not selling 10m on Switch.

1. LOL!

2. Any game that has enough built up hype that it goes to #1 on Amazon the DAY AFTER the reveal with literally no gameplay/release date info shown other than 2018 is going to be massive!

3. Did you not see the reaction Videos to the reveal? Youtubers and others were literally screaming and crying!

4. "OMFG! OMFG! OMFG! It's all they needed. It's all they needed baby!" :- Etika 2018.

I honestly don't see how can think that from that data provided. on DS mainline animal crossing vs a port of mario 64, and they nearly sold the same, but animal crossing beats a old mario 64 port that already sold nearly 12 million on a user base of 33 million. then mario galaxy and 3d world beat mainline animal crossing as well, is there something i'm missing?



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peachbuggy on 18 April 2018
quickrick said:
peachbuggy said:

Animal Crossing (Mainline) games are historically bigger than 3D Mario, at least in terms of sales. You have had that shown/proven to you in the past with figures. Your table shows 2 games which were both spinoffs and major cashgrabs, especially Amiibo festival. As for the Wii version, yes that had subpar sales but the impression i got for that was because the game buying public saw it as too similar to wild world. If you want to do comparisons, then compare wild world and New leaf with past 3D Mario titles, as these were the mainline Animal Crossing iterations for their respective consoles. Admittedly in any other metric 3D Mario is bigger and yes, i'm sure the next Animal Crossing will have a tough time competing with the masterpiece that is Odyssey. However, if the trend of Nintendo franchises selling  best ever figures on the Switch and if the next AC is truly groundbreaking and is a great game, then, sure it has a shot at beating out Odyssey in LT sales.

 

As for Smash Switch not selling 10m on Switch.

1. LOL!

2. Any game that has enough built up hype that it goes to #1 on Amazon the DAY AFTER the reveal with literally no gameplay/release date info shown other than 2018 is going to be massive!

3. Did you not see the reaction Videos to the reveal? Youtubers and others were literally screaming and crying!

4. "OMFG! OMFG! OMFG! It's all they needed. It's all they needed baby!" :- Etika 2018.

I honestly don't see how can think that from that data provided. on DS mainline animal crossing vs a port of mario 64, and they nearly sold the same, but animal crossing beats a old mario 64 port that already sold nearly 12 million on a user base of 33 million. then mario galaxy and 3d world beat mainline animal crossing as well, is there something i'm missing?

Yes. The key point here is that New Leaf is still selling. It will likely surpass all 3D Marios bar 1. AC titles have legendary legs. New Leaf and WW beat out MOST 3D Mario titles, so yes you are missing something.



DON'T WIN ME CHIBI BUDDY DON'T WIN ME.

ANIMAL CROSSING NEW LEAF FRIEND CODE:- 5129 1175 1029. MESSAGE ME.
ANDY MURRAY:- GRAND SLAM WINNER!

In my opinion the N64 was not just the best console of the 5th gen but, to this day the best console ever created!

CosmicSex on 18 April 2018
Barkley said:
Kerotan said:
psn cards currently unavailable. god of war never appearing on amazon uk, among many other games for pre order. sony and amazon are definitely having a dispute.

Something is definitely wrong, every psn card is out of stock, even every ps+ package is out of stock...

Apparently, something happened and killed the codes for Amazon products so they pulled them to fix them I believe.

Its affecting all of their codes and everyone whith a code of war code got burned.:

https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B01GW8XOY2/ref=zg_bs_videogames_cr_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=ZDGD9X40JGAC6BFGNANP



CosmicSex on 18 April 2018

Nevermind. All PSN codes are dropped and Amazon may be walking away with your money.
http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/04/playstations_relationship_with_amazon_worsens_as_psn_codes_are_dropped



PortisheadBiscuit on 18 April 2018

It really isnt up for debate, Smash will be huge regardless of baseless facts some try to present. Switch's attach rate has been amazing thus far, why would one of their biggest franchises suddenly not be able to do huge numbers?



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Kai_Mao on 18 April 2018
CosmicSex said:
Nevermind. All PSN codes are dropped and Amazon may be walking away with your money.
http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/04/playstations_relationship_with_amazon_worsens_as_psn_codes_are_dropped

That’s so bizarre. I don’t know what to think of this at the moment. I’m also surprised it hasn’t happened, to my knowledge, at this extent in years prior. 



PortisheadBiscuit on 18 April 2018

I hope that isnt true, I always buy my PSN cards on Amazon.



VGPolyglot on 18 April 2018
Kai_Mao said:
CosmicSex said:
Nevermind. All PSN codes are dropped and Amazon may be walking away with your money.
http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/04/playstations_relationship_with_amazon_worsens_as_psn_codes_are_dropped

That’s so bizarre. I don’t know what to think of this at the moment. I’m also surprised it hasn’t happened, to my knowledge, at this extent in years prior. 

It doesn't make sense why Amazon would do that, especially if they made a hefty profit from it. Unless it was on Sony's end.



JRPGfan on 18 April 2018
VGPolyglot said:
Kai_Mao said:

That’s so bizarre. I don’t know what to think of this at the moment. I’m also surprised it hasn’t happened, to my knowledge, at this extent in years prior. 

It doesn't make sense why Amazon would do that, especially if they made a hefty profit from it. Unless it was on Sony's end.

Could be Amazon trying to strong arm Sony into giveng them a better deal (bigger % cut of the pie).



Roar_Of_War on 18 April 2018

Why is BOTW almost constantly sold out lately?