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Forums - Nintendo - Most important third party game on a Nintendo system (and why)

Wman1996 5 hours ago

Tough to pick just one.
Street Fighter II and its variants gave SNES a big advantage over Mega Drive.
Just Dance and its spin-offs and sequels helped interest in Wii (which was already popular granted). It even got supported as a series longer on Wii than Wii U.
Minecraft has sold well on Switch, and who knows how well it could've done on Wii U if it was a launch title.



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Switch: 159 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million, then 161 million)

PS5: 116 million (was 105 million, then 115 million, then 122 million)

Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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V-r0cK 4 hours ago
JRPGfan said:

the SNES days... with SquareSoft.

Think of there being now Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger ect.

This!!

....along with Secret of Mana!! One of the best and earliest co-op RPG experience I've played.



Salnax 1 hour ago

Strong Candidates:

  • Xevious (NES) - Easy to overlook nowadays, but the success of Xevious in Japan led to the Famicom actually selling reasonable numbers in Japan, along with attracting lots of third party support for possibly the first time for a Japanese game console. The Famicom started with a couple of Nintendo arcade ports and reached the big leagues with Super Mario Bros, but Xevious was what bridged that gap.
  • Dragon Quest I/II/III (NES) - Made Nintendo the home of the most popular genre in Japan for a decade. 
  • Street Fighter II (SNES) - Adding up the various SF2 versions on SNES, the game sold over 12 million copies, an attach rate of roughly 1 in 4 SNES owners. This was what kept the Genesis from completely defeating the SNES in America during the window of 1992 to 1994.
  • Just Dance 2/3/onwards (Wii) - In the Wi's latter days, as well as during the Wii U's lifespan, it was the Just Dance series that kept casual Wii owners playing every so often. Just Dance 3 was the best-selling Wii game released after NSMB Wii, and according to old VGChartz estimates, new entries sold at least a million each year until the Switch era.
  • Monster Hunter 4 (3DS) - This was the game that killed PlayStation's handhelds, albeit indirectly.



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