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JackHandy 5 days ago
curl-6 said:
JackHandy said:

Yeah, but it sold without them.

The games still sold systems though; it would have sold less without GT3 or GTA or FFX or MGS2.

For sure.

I just think Ninendo's brand is apex right now. Probably hasn't had this easy a route with a handheld since the Gameboy days.



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CaptainExplosion 5 days ago

I'm still shocked that Donkey Kong Bananza isn't a system seller for Switch 2. It does a better job at showcasing the system's capabilities than Mario Kart World has.



Wyrdness 5 days ago
CaptainExplosion said:

I'm still shocked that Donkey Kong Bananza isn't a system seller for Switch 2. It does a better job at showcasing the system's capabilities than Mario Kart World has.

Outside of Mario the are very few actual platformer system sellers if any, the genre for most part in the modern era has more been one that compliments a platform's library.



newwil7l 5 days ago

Its obviously Mario Kart. Nothing else even comes close



curl-6 5 days ago
CaptainExplosion said:

I'm still shocked that Donkey Kong Bananza isn't a system seller for Switch 2. It does a better job at showcasing the system's capabilities than Mario Kart World has.

DK just isn't as big a series, it hasn't really been a killer app outside of DKC on the SNES.

It's a good game, it's just for something that sells to people who are already gonna buy a Nintendo console for other stuff.



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Leynos 4 days ago
CaptainExplosion said:
Wyrdness said:

PS2 did have a killer app at launch, DVD, it was the cheapest DVD player on the planet this is highlighted in how in Japan the biggest seller at PS2's launch was The Matrix DVD. Lack of DVD is one major reason DC lost Japan so quickly to the PS2 despite a really good start in the region, brand perception is one thing but it's not as key as a solid line up which PS2 had that's why people got it and DVD covered that in Japan for the first year.

In it's first year in the west mean while which was the second year for Japanese consumers (we still had staggered launches back then) PS2 had GT3, FFX, Jak and Daxter, Onimusha, Devil May Cry, MGS2, Silent Hill 2, Red Faction and the break out hit of that decade GTA3.

I told you all it was a glorified cheap DVD player.

I feel this is a myth. PS2 launched in late 2000 in the west at $300. I got my first DVD player in early 2001 for $150 and it was a Sony DVD player. If you only used one for DVDs, better prices out there at the time even from Sony. 



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