Beacause they're vastly inferior to their console counterparts. Also the appeal of these games simply don't translate well to the handheld market. It works both ways as well, I coundn't see Nintendogs doing as well if it were released on consoles.
Third person ports and first-person shooters (good, bad, or indifferent) are not the strength of the DS -- or any handheld system.
So the sales reflect the tastes and desires of the game-players as well as reaction to inferior games in some cases.
No surprise there.
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 I am Mario.I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can't stay out of trouble. Wii Friend Code: 1624 6601 1126 1492 NNID: Mike_INTV |
scottie said:
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 |
GTA was for home consoles first.Then it came on PSP.
Lets see...5.21 M and 2.88m.
It will be interesting to see how GTA Chinatown Wars does on Ds.
Take my love, take my land..
@ simulacrum I agree that it'll be interesting to see how GTA:CW does, but I think you're crazy if you think it'll sell on par with the games in the OP
some games weren't meant to be portable
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
"WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
Because they were bad and deserved bad sales!
scottie said:
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 |
I created it. And the DB for some reason doesn't register hits from the one who created the game, happens with all the games I add
Just play the games... they are horrible by themselfs.
zexen_lowe said:
I created it. And the DB for some reason doesn't register hits from the one who created the game, happens with all the games I add |
Sweet, that's that mystery solved
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