24th August 2006, 3:28 PM
That list does have one error, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (in the US, at least, it is NOT Super Mario Brothers DX, darnit... :)) is a GBC game, not a GB game. :)
Those numbers are interesting though, shows how different the markets are... SMB 3 sold 18 million worldwide, presumably mostly in the US and Japan because those were the main markets Nintendo controlled (they never did as well in Europe...), so that means that it sold a huge amount here... while with some newer titles the discrepancy is less, most obviously with NSMB, which is selling far better there than here... it makes sense, what with the DS doing dramatically better in Japan than anywhere else thanks to Nintendo's Japan-first policies, but still, it's interesting.
I predict that it just boosts the victory of the casuals that the DS has brought... it will do very well, but like the DS there is going to be a pretty high casual-to-hardcore-game/gamer ratio, I think.
Those numbers are interesting though, shows how different the markets are... SMB 3 sold 18 million worldwide, presumably mostly in the US and Japan because those were the main markets Nintendo controlled (they never did as well in Europe...), so that means that it sold a huge amount here... while with some newer titles the discrepancy is less, most obviously with NSMB, which is selling far better there than here... it makes sense, what with the DS doing dramatically better in Japan than anywhere else thanks to Nintendo's Japan-first policies, but still, it's interesting.
Quote:It'll be interesting to see if Wii can rebuild Japan's interest in gaming.
I predict that it just boosts the victory of the casuals that the DS has brought... it will do very well, but like the DS there is going to be a pretty high casual-to-hardcore-game/gamer ratio, I think.
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