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YesWiiCan on 03 November 2009
mushroomboy5 said:
Yeah they did okay for re-releases (actually most of 'em sold better than I thought they had!)...

Interesting (or predictable) to see the Mario related title sold the most...mebbe they shoulda re-released Mario Sunshine as well...

(I bought Pikmin 2 myself, not necessarily for the new controls but cos it's one of my favourite gc games and I lost my copy...but it was pretty cool with the new controls!)

Total they sold around 2,120,000 more or less.



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intro94 on 03 November 2009
gaming_addict24 said:
YesWiiCan said:
gaming_addict24 said:
YesWiiCan said:
gaming_addict24 said:

well for a motion system, i think so.

wtf is that suppose to mean


well = ok

for = implying

a = letter

Motion = movement

system = Wii/console

, = ,

i = gaming_addict24

think = using your mind/brain

so = agreeing

. = .

trying to be a smartass, eh?

lol, in a nut shell the answer is yes i do think its successful. hopefully it will be the same for god of war collection.

hes just explaining there are a lot of motion based consoles in the market.hes that well informed.



Joelcool7 on 03 November 2009

I think the New Play Control series is actually testing grounds to see just how popular franchises are. Nintendo wants to test the market for Donkey Kong and Pikmin ahead of possible entries in both franchises. Then also testing the market for ChibiRobo and Power Tennis seeing if maybe Nintendo should revive those series.

In all I think this was a big experiment. Also note that Nintendo chose titles that under performed on GameCube. Nintendo probubly wanted to make their money back on them. Combined Donkey Kong Jungle Beat has shipped over a million copies and I think that may have been Nintendo's intent.

Are the series successful?

Well I don't know how much money it cost to port those titles but I'm better 300,000 copies sold is more then enough profit. Nintendo had virtually no over head and a chance to sell titles they couldn't sell on GameCube. Nintendo has turned a huge profit by releasing these new play titles!



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JUG on 03 November 2009

Pikmin 2 will probably sell a lot more than Pikmin 1 when/if they actually release it in the States.



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YesWiiCan on 03 November 2009
Joelcool7 said:

I think the New Play Control series is actually testing grounds to see just how popular franchises are. Nintendo wants to test the market for Donkey Kong and Pikmin ahead of possible entries in both franchises. Then also testing the market for ChibiRobo and Power Tennis seeing if maybe Nintendo should revive those series.

In all I think this was a big experiment. Also note that Nintendo chose titles that under performed on GameCube. Nintendo probubly wanted to make their money back on them. Combined Donkey Kong Jungle Beat has shipped over a million copies and I think that may have been Nintendo's intent.

Are the series successful?

Well I don't know how much money it cost to port those titles but I'm better 300,000 copies sold is more then enough profit. Nintendo had virtually no over head and a chance to sell titles they couldn't sell on GameCube. Nintendo has turned a huge profit by releasing these new play titles!

If they were testing they should of made a new game instead of old games.



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davidd_err18 on 03 November 2009
YesWiiCan said:
gaming_addict24 said:
YesWiiCan said:
gaming_addict24 said:

well for a motion system, i think so.

wtf is that suppose to mean


well = ok

for = implying

a = letter

Motion = movement

system = Wii/console

, = ,

i = gaming_addict24

think = using your mind/brain

so = agreeing

. = .

trying to be a smartass, eh?


lol lol lol lol hahaha this made my day



Joelcool7 on 04 November 2009
YesWiiCan said:
Joelcool7 said:

I think the New Play Control series is actually testing grounds to see just how popular franchises are. Nintendo wants to test the market for Donkey Kong and Pikmin ahead of possible entries in both franchises. Then also testing the market for ChibiRobo and Power Tennis seeing if maybe Nintendo should revive those series.

In all I think this was a big experiment. Also note that Nintendo chose titles that under performed on GameCube. Nintendo probubly wanted to make their money back on them. Combined Donkey Kong Jungle Beat has shipped over a million copies and I think that may have been Nintendo's intent.

Are the series successful?

Well I don't know how much money it cost to port those titles but I'm better 300,000 copies sold is more then enough profit. Nintendo had virtually no over head and a chance to sell titles they couldn't sell on GameCube. Nintendo has turned a huge profit by releasing these new play titles!

If they were testing they should of made a new game instead of old games.

Why invest millions of dollars making a new game to test the waters when a couple thousand can see what people are interested in? I think Nintendo is doing alot of testing these days rather then actually producing full blown titles. They are testing the waters to see what will sell and what won't. If for example DK:JB shipped about a million copies you could gaurantee a new Donkey Kong title would be in the works.



-JC7

"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer