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Mr Khan on 03 January 2010
psrock said:
Arius Dion said:
I don't know, Rock, there were many people trumpeting NSMB as being Gigantic, lol. Rol comes to mind and Avinash also was one of those who said the game would be huge.

But on the other hand even Famitsu put NSMB at what 2.5m LTD? It's already there in less than a month lol. So that says a lot. But even the most optimistic person probably didn't see Japan's NSMB performance being this incredible.

Everyone thought the game would be huge, but not fastest selling game ever huge, I saw it as a game with years of legs, no doubt sells 20 million plus, but so far, it's selling over 1.5 million a week. That's something noone expected.

As far as hardware, in japan, yes, would the wii had sold less without it in NA and Others, i doubt it.

That's the power of Nintendo's bridge games. You can get the hot sales out front, and the long legs in back, for optimum sellage.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 03 January 2010
Akvod said:
I think nostalgia and the local multiplayer would actually attract a lot of customers.

Nostalgia has little to do with the sales, its selling because its one of the best games ever



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Akvod on 03 January 2010
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Akvod said:
I think nostalgia and the local multiplayer would actually attract a lot of customers.

Nostalgia has little to do with the sales, its selling because its one of the best games ever

I don't think my mom looked up its score in meta critic before asking me about the game, and staring at a family playing local multiplayer at Best Buy before buying it...



MontanaHatchet on 03 January 2010

Sounds like another one of those "Lol, I was right, you were wrong, you're an idiot" threads. These are so annoying and pathetic. People say a lot of things. Honestly, I'm sick of many posters on this forum trying to inflate a game's success because a couple people made bad predictions. Tons of people make bad predictions. Hell, I predicted that Halo 3 would sell 10.5 million lifetime once. Does that mean that it's sales are more successful because I guessed lower sales? No, I'm just some random guy.

Garrrr!

Some people just disgust me.



 

 

Avinash_Tyagi on 03 January 2010

^That's not nostalgia though, that just shows that she saw the quality, protip, metacritic doesn't decide what is quality



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

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Avinash_Tyagi on 03 January 2010
MontanaHatchet said:
Sounds like another one of those "Lol, I was right, you were wrong, you're an idiot" threads. These are so annoying and pathetic. People say a lot of things. Honestly, I'm sick of many posters on this forum trying to inflate a game's success because a couple people made bad predictions. Tons of people make bad predictions. Hell, I predicted that Halo 3 would sell 10.5 million lifetime once. Does that mean that it's sales are more successful because I guessed lower sales? No, I'm just some random guy.

Garrrr!

Some people just disgust me.

On most games I'd never bring it up, as predictions are just that, but when you say a 2D mario won't be a monster success, even when History says it will, I just have to point it out



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Akvod on 03 January 2010
Avinash_Tyagi said:
^That's not nostalgia though, that just shows that she saw the quality, protip, metacritic doesn't decide what is quality

She didn't care about the quality though. She simply remembered how much fun she had playing Mario as a young woman (nostalgia), and was also attracted by the local multiplayer (so many parents desperately want to be the mom playing Guitar Hero with their kid, or the dad snowboarding on the Wii with his family [on TV lol]).



psrock on 03 January 2010
Avinash_Tyagi said:
^That's not nostalgia though, that just shows that she saw the quality, protip, metacritic doesn't decide what is quality

How do you see quality?



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Akvod on 03 January 2010
psrock said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
^That's not nostalgia though, that just shows that she saw the quality, protip, metacritic doesn't decide what is quality

How do you see quality?

That ass is quality.



MontanaHatchet on 03 January 2010
Avinash_Tyagi said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Sounds like another one of those "Lol, I was right, you were wrong, you're an idiot" threads. These are so annoying and pathetic. People say a lot of things. Honestly, I'm sick of many posters on this forum trying to inflate a game's success because a couple people made bad predictions. Tons of people make bad predictions. Hell, I predicted that Halo 3 would sell 10.5 million lifetime once. Does that mean that it's sales are more successful because I guessed lower sales? No, I'm just some random guy.

Garrrr!

Some people just disgust me.

On most games I'd never bring it up, as predictions are just that, but when you say a 2D mario won't be a monster success, even when History says it will, I just have to point it out

Coming from the guy who said Wii Fit would outsell the GTA franchise (among a number of other AMAZING predictions).

You're not exactly one to point out other's bad predictions.

Edit: By the way, do you really think that the Wii will be able to more than double its install base and outsell the PS2 by the end of this year, master of predictions? Do tell.