I can't name that many because I don't think it happens that often, but Dead Space is a recent example even though that did bad. Final Fantasy Dissidia, XII: Revenant Wings and Crisis Core are good examples of spin-offs that sold well, but they did not beat the original series. 

Final Fantasy Tactics outsold Final Fantasy I,II,III and equal to FF V back in the day.

@c0rd: I only used recent examples, not really familiar with every one of their relseases of DQ.

Marketing games on the Wii is not difficult. The problem is that nobody does it; not even Nintendo most of the time. The real trick is that you can't market to the blue ocean the way you market to the fratcore, because most people won't be taken in by a shiny trailer and a couple of awesome screenshots the way the fratcore are: the blue ocean still knows that graphics don't matter. Instead, you have to convince them of something these things can't show: that the game is actually fun to play. Nintendo has mastered this with the Wii _____ series, by showing people actually having fun with the games in their ads. This was so successful that even Wii Music broke 2.5 million, despite being smeared mercilessly by reviewers.

The problem is, I'm not sure Nintendo really knows what they have here, since they have failed to use this tactic with anything that doesn't have the word "Wii" in the title. Squeenix certainly doesn't know, because they're still marketing Crystal Bearers in the fratcore fashion: lots of pretty pictures, but no evidence of the game actually being any good. This will not work on the blue ocean, and so the game will not sell.

This is what companies should be doing with all of their games, if they want to capture the blue ocean: show people having fun. This is not hard to do at all, as long as your game is any good. If you can't find people visibly having fun while playing your game, then it's time to upend the tea table, because something is seriously wrong with your game if people are not having fun.

'Third parties that put out quality titles that people want have not had a problem. Crystal Bearers may not be as wanted as the main FF series, it is far more wanted than an on rails shooter. Assuming it's actually a quality title, it will easily break 1 million.'.

Easily?

Suggesting SE games are poor quality?

I can only assume that is one of your sarcastic posts.

Have you played FF CC?

And Crystal Bearers?

No, but I'm wondering how you are judging the quality of it. A Famitsu review? Or if I want it on PSP or not?

I don't want it because Soriku had it in his sig. Sure sign of a terrible game.

On another note, I'd quite like 4 warriors of Light on PSP. That looks pretty cool.

lol, you been lurking?

so they were absolutely right then