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Shanobi on 20 July 2008
Gnizmo said:
Leetgeek said:

I bet you a million dollars that 400% will be conservative in but a few months time and the number will be more like 600%. That's how I slam a fanboy.

 

 Swing and a miss. While 600% is unrealistic for a few months, I would say it is probably a lowe estimate for a year or so off. Metroid Prime 3 was god awful and did nothing to live up to the charm of the original Prime let alone the original Metroid series. Feel free to keep trying though.

You must not have played the same MP3 that I, and all the critics who praised it, did. That was in almost every top 10 list of last year.

 

Maybe you didn't like it, but that game was amazing. Period.

 



 

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sc94597 on 20 July 2008
Leetgeek said:
sc94597 said:
^ Then your grammer is wrong, because you said "outsold" rather than "sold". You should have just used the phrase" Wii Fit sold 4 times more than Metroid Prime 3".

See me and this guy disagree more often then not and yet we can have a civil discourse. You are correct Sc94597. But the heart of the matter is that casual games are vastly outselling core games on Wii so don't be surprised that that is Nintendos focus.

 

And yes Smash Brothers and Animal Crossing are casual.

 

If smash bros is casual, then so is Grand Turismo, Final Fantasy, Halo, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, and tons of other ps360 franchises. As for casual games selling more than core games. Here is a list of 1st party nintendo games. Any game that interests the core gamers, automatically registers as core imo even if it also adresses casuals.

Core

Super Mario Galaxy-6.68m

Super Smash Bros Brawl-6.24

Mario Kart Wii-6.27

Metroid Prime 3- 1.43

Twilight Princess-4.81

Mario Strikers Charged- 1.71

Super Paper Mario-2.40

Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn-.52

Battalion Wars 2-.16

Excite Truck- .62

Total-30.84

Casual

Wii Sports(Not including NA, Idk if its bundled with the wii in EU so I'm going to post those numbers)-13M if it is bundled in Eu then 3.13 mln

Wii Play- 13.57

Link's Crossbow Training-2.13

Big Brain Academy-2.51

Pokemon Battle Revolution-.99

DK Barrle Blast-.44

Wii Fit-5.73

WarioWare- 2.34

Endless Ocean-.57

Total-41.07 or 31.91mln depeding on if wii sports is bundled in Eu or not. To me that doesn't seem like highly outselling core games. The only casual games to outsell the best selling core games are the "Wii" titles.

Edit: Oops forgot wii fit (:. Edit2: And wario ware,endless ocean.

Edit3 As for metroid prime. I actually thought Prime 3 was close to the level of the original in terms of greatness. Definately a great ending to the prime series. Btw I'm a big metroid fan if you haven't noticed.

 

 

 

 



The_vagabond7 on 20 July 2008

People should just ignore DTG, he doesn't know what art is. He just makes up his own definition, and standard and then denies that anything else is art because it doesn't live up to his definition or style of it. Why isn't this guy permabanned? If not for trolling, then at least for being insanely annoying. I mean if leo-j can be permabanned for it, why not this guy?



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Gnizmo on 20 July 2008
RolStoppable said:
Gnizmo said:
Leetgeek said:

I bet you a million dollars that 400% will be conservative in but a few months time and the number will be more like 600%. That's how I slam a fanboy.

 Swing and a miss. While 600% is unrealistic for a few months, I would say it is probably a lowe estimate for a year or so off. Metroid Prime 3 was god awful and did nothing to live up to the charm of the original Prime let alone the original Metroid series. Feel free to keep trying though.

The only good game Treasure ever made was Ikaruga.

 I will get you back for this one. I don't know how yet, but I will. Even if I have to fly all the way to Australia to get you back I will have my revenge!

You must not have played the same MP3 that I, and all the critics who praised it, did. That was in almost every top 10 list of last year.

 

Maybe you didn't like it, but that game was amazing. Period.


Oh I did but I had higher standards than most people. The original Prime outsolde 3 by 100%. Critics lavished praise on the original Prime and it was one of the highest rated games ever. So really the question is what game were you playing that it actually lived up to the legacy of the original Prime.



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ItsaMii on 20 July 2008

Well, Wii Fit outsold PS3 in Japan and America.



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Leetgeek on 20 July 2008
ItsaMii said:
Well, Wii Fit outsold PS3 in Japan and America.

I guess you're trying to hurt my feelings by slamming the PS3 but that won't change the Wii's gaming linup or Nintendos focus on casuals.

 



DTG on 20 July 2008
The_vagabond7 said:
People should just ignore DTG, he doesn't know what art is. He just makes up his own definition, and standard and then denies that anything else is art because it doesn't live up to his definition or style of it. Why isn't this guy permabanned? If not for trolling, then at least for being insanely annoying. I mean if leo-j can be permabanned for it, why not this guy?

Because being "annoying" isn't defined in the ToS and I would take such a judgment to court if came be.

 



SleepWaking on 20 July 2008
Gnizmo said:
RolStoppable said:
Gnizmo said:
Leetgeek said:

I bet you a million dollars that 400% will be conservative in but a few months time and the number will be more like 600%. That's how I slam a fanboy.

 Swing and a miss. While 600% is unrealistic for a few months, I would say it is probably a lowe estimate for a year or so off. Metroid Prime 3 was god awful and did nothing to live up to the charm of the original Prime let alone the original Metroid series. Feel free to keep trying though.

The only good game Treasure ever made was Ikaruga.

 I will get you back for this one. I don't know how yet, but I will. Even if I have to fly all the way to Australia to get you back I will have my revenge!

You must not have played the same MP3 that I, and all the critics who praised it, did. That was in almost every top 10 list of last year.

 

Maybe you didn't like it, but that game was amazing. Period.


Oh I did but I had higher standards than most people. The original Prime outsolde 3 by 100%. Critics lavished praise on the original Prime and it was one of the highest rated games ever. So really the question is what game were you playing that it actually lived up to the legacy of the original Prime.

 

So a game not as good as it's predecessor is automatically  god awful???



sc94597 on 20 July 2008
Leetgeek said:
ItsaMii said:
Well, Wii Fit outsold PS3 in Japan and America.

I guess you're trying to hurt my feelings by slamming the PS3 but that won't change the Wii's gaming linup or Nintendos focus on casuals.

 

Where did you get this idea that nintendo is focused on casuals. There is Disaster Day of Crisis, Fatal Frame IV(Which nintendo will be publishing, and there are great chances they bought the ip), Pikmin 3, New Zelda, New Mario, Wario Land, Captain Rainbow(Looks pretty core, but I don't know yet). It just they won't be showing their core games for a while before release.

 



LordTheNightKnight on 20 July 2008
Leetgeek said:
ItsaMii said:
Well, Wii Fit outsold PS3 in Japan and America.

I guess you're trying to hurt my feelings by slamming the PS3 but that won't change the Wii's gaming linup or Nintendos focus on casuals.

 

 

No, Nintendo's focus is on holding back so that the third parties can fill in the void, just like with the DS. They did this at the end of that system's second year as well.



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