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knighthawk
  
| #1 posted April 23, 2008 at 8:17am (EDT)
edited April 23, 2008 at 8:19am (EDT) |
the graph depicts brawl's sales. i was somewhat kinda disappointed at first til i recognized the red is 1 month for brawl. the blue is lifetime for the other titles...
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synthetic1
| | #2 posted April 23, 2008 at 11:50am (EDT) |
Wow, in one month it completely outsold the original. Thats a good sign, i think it should be able to pass melee no problem. |
Sartori
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| | #3 posted April 23, 2008 at 12:00pm (EDT) |
I was under the impression Melee was a bit higher than that. Hm. |
thelazyone22
| | #4 posted April 23, 2008 at 1:31pm (EDT) |
There is no way Melee sold under 4 million copies.
Here we go: according to Wikipedia, 4 million is the number as of last December '07. However... "As of March 10, 2008, Super Smash Bros Melee is the best-selling GameCube game, with more than seven million copies sold worldwide."
I think the more important question is whether Brawl can sustain these kinds of sales: of course the first month is going to be nuts seeing as Super Smash hadn't had an update in close to a decade, but Melee reached Best Seller and 7 mil; will Brawl be able to get that high? |
Sartori
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| | #5 posted April 23, 2008 at 1:45pm (EDT) |
thelazyone22 wrote:
> There is no way Melee sold under 4 million copies.
>
> Here we go: according to Wikipedia, 4 million is the number as of
> last December '07. However... "As of March 10, 2008, Super Smash Bros
> Melee is the best-selling GameCube game, with more than seven million
> copies sold worldwide."
>
> I think the more important question is whether Brawl can sustain these
> kinds of sales: of course the first month is going to be nuts seeing
> as Super Smash hadn't had an update in close to a decade, but Melee
> reached Best Seller and 7 mil; will Brawl be able to get that high?
That's what I thought. 4 million is just too low, I knew it wasn't 4. |
thelazyone22
| | #6 posted April 23, 2008 at 1:59pm (EDT) |
Lol, I read part of the review for Melee on Wiki.
"Too fast for it's own good"; "too frantic"; "more about wrapping your head around what's going on then actually doing stuff".
Game reviewers crack me up. |
Sartori
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| | #7 posted April 23, 2008 at 3:08pm (EDT) |
Sounds to me like those players are pretty crapty.
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BrambleClaw
| | #8 posted April 23, 2008 at 5:21pm (EDT) |
wiki can be edited by anyone isn't that right??? |
Sartori
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| | #9 posted April 23, 2008 at 5:25pm (EDT) |
That is right. But.. anything on the internet can be fabricated by anyone. |
BrambleClaw
| | #10 posted April 23, 2008 at 5:28pm (EDT) |
true but still that's my point mainly. don't believe much of what you see |
Sartori
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| | #11 posted April 23, 2008 at 5:41pm (EDT) |
I don't. |
thelazyone22
| | #12 posted April 23, 2008 at 5:51pm (EDT) |
Lol, because we all have to be extra careful of people making up numbers that can be easily cross-referenced and corrected.
Wiki can be edited by anyone, but I'm pretty sure they have at least a rudimentary filter process that prevents you from hacking, say Hilary Clinton's bio because you're pro-Obama.
Oh and by the way, the numbers ARE cross-referenced on the Wiki, from Nintendo's own website no less:
http://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/1u0FthaPxT...
All the way at the bottom: 7.09 million. |
Scorch
 
 
| | #13 posted April 24, 2008 at 7:41pm (EDT) |
I think there was only one month (could be more, but I don't think so) the entire time Melee was out that it wasn't on the top 10 seller list for GC (according to NP), I wonder if Brawl can pull the same...
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thelazyone22
| | #14 posted April 24, 2008 at 9:17pm (EDT) |
I seriously doubt it. I mean, Mario Kart Wii is coming out this month isn't it?
I think the strength of Melee was that toward the end of the Gamecube's lifespan, it was fairly cheap to pick up a copy and a system and some controllers. They kept reprinting it, so $30-40 + $30-40 + $30-40, respectively for retail copy of Melee, retail Gamecube, a retail controller or two? No more than $120-140 at the very most buying only retail, I would say.
For Brawl, you have to invest in a $250 Wii system right off the bat. It's almost uneconomical. |
Sartori
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| | #15 posted April 24, 2008 at 9:40pm (EDT) |
I don't think the strength was toward the end, but moreso it had a solid strength the whole time.
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