No PS5 in sight.

Fair enough though that seems like kind of an understatement. It is the best selling console of all time in Europe after all so to see it somewhere in the middle at basicly half the sales of the DS is a little crazy.

On topic that's a great yoy hold for the Switch and amazing sales for TotK

Pretty huge discrepancies between the two lists, especially on older consoles.

Master System: 1.6M vs 970k

NES: 2.4M vs 1.788M

Switch: 7.81M vs 7.945M

Also, Xbox S/X still over 200k behind Wii U sales? Even though France was one of the best countries for the Wii U, that's still a pretty bad showing for the Microsoft console.

People really don't like to credit Sony for Niche man's success huh. 

Activision made Niche man games until 2014 and they barely sold over 3 million per game.

Sony and insomniac's Niche Man PS4 sold over 23 million units and counting.

So yeah, it being a massive brand has little to do with its success.

By that logic, Avengers should have been a massive success as it is a Much Bigger brand than Niche Man.

Anyway, To each their own. 

Literally nobody called it niche, it's a multi-billion dollar brand.

The old games took place before superhero mania took off in the 2010s, at a time when software sales across the board were far lower than today, and didn't get the kind of push that AAA exclusives get nowadays, it's a completely apples to oranges comparison.

Avengers failed cos people were tired of live service shit. Spiderman by contrast is a regular AAA action adventure, one of the most popular genres in gaming. It selling well was as predictable as Mario selling well.

Literally nobody called it niche, it's a multi-billion dollar brand.

The old games took place before superhero mania took off in the 2010s, at a time when software sales across the board were far lower than today, and didn't get the kind of push that AAA exclusives get nowadays, it's a completely apples to oranges comparison.

Avengers failed cos people were tired of live service shit. Spiderman by contrast is a regular AAA action adventure, one of the most popular genres in gaming. It selling well was as predictable as Mario selling well.

Many have called it niche for a video game franchise. This forum is pretty slow when it comes to traffic so basing everything on this forum when the discussion here is limited to like 10 people at best, and what super hero craze are you talking about? Batman sold cause the games were literally 10s.

Just seems weird to call it niche here if nobody on here was actually saying that. 

Starting around early 2010s, superheroes became an absolutely massive craze across pop culture with the likes of the MCU. This benefitted Spiderman greatly as both a popular superhero IP and a Marvel property.

I wasn't downplaying its success, just saying it's not really surprising, just like it wasn't surprising that Mario Wonder or Tears of the Kingdom were highly successful.

I agree with you on spider man 2 but not spiderman  2018 there was no history on spiderman gam even coming close to even 10 million not even 5 million. It's like botw while people expected success most did not think it would be a massive success.