I'm wondering why games like Cod,POP,Assasin Creed and others sell millions in other consoles but then fail at Ds.

Sure Ds power is limited when compared to home consoles,but still they fail too hard.

0.03m 0.05m 0.17m

  0.02m 0.23m

I think 0.23 isn't a fail on the DS.

The reason is simple, those games seemed like a cash-in.

both prince of persia games and assasins creed are just plain bad games and COD titles are average plus they weren't advertise at all. i didn't know that there was any COD game on ds even though i'm interested in this handheld. so how do you think these games would sell when nobody knew they existed?

because they're not fit for the DS? Dunno...

because maybe they have like multi system versions of those games?

Most people who own a DS would probably own a console. So why wouldn't they get those games on their home console.

If it was unique like a DS only game then they would see more sales.

Cheap and easy to make games on, and almost 100million DS.

1% of DS owners buying the same game = 1 million copies sold. Easy money just like that.

because there games that not many people would want even on another console?

yes, i understand with cod, but who wants a handheld cod when the console one is prolly much more superior?

i heard PoP and assassins creed were bad games.... and not only that... but all of the big games of those series are on other consoles.

i was really confused when i heard the ds was getting an assassins creed game, and i laughed, and never gave it a chance, ever. i think most people like myself did the same.

Because these were good console games that were crammed onto the DS in a cash-in to piggyback sale off of the much better console versions. Very little effort was put on these ports, they were reviewed poorly, and never advertised.

Unless you can link to high selling Cod, AC or PoP on a Portable

Oh wait, I checked for you

PSP has PoP:revelations on 0.16 mill

GBA has Pop:Sands of Time which wasn't tracked

PSP has PoP:Rival Swords which was not tracked (or isn't released, I suppose. Not sure)

PSP has CoD: Roads to Victory at 0.12 million

Assasins Creed is portable exclusive to the DS. Although the VGChartz database mentions a game that has 0 hits. Man, surely the person who put the game in the database would've looked at it. No, I was the first

Some franchsies are just best on home consoles, I don't see why to single out the DS

Because people buy DS for handheld games and that's the reason why is so succeful. All the games that sell gazzilions on the DS are fit for handhelds, but these are not. The only reson to release them is the fact that it's cheap to do it and a easy cash. 200k x $20(?) is 4mln. How much it cost?