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TalkBack / RE: Report Says DS Outplays PSP
« on: July 10, 2005, 05:31:51 PM »
I've not played it so I couldn't say, but it's a new franchise which may not even appeal to the American segment and it doesn't feature online play. I understand the game has excellent reviews and all, but that's from Famitsu and the Japanese segment tends to have a great deal more affection for the "giga-pet" genre than the US does.
I'm not doubting the selling power of Nintendogs, but unless Nintendo fires up a multi-million dollar ad campaign for the game in the US and hypes it like crazy, then I doubt it'll see the same sales here that it did in Japan.
I cite MK and AC because we already know they've both succeeded around the world AND there has been a great deal of fanfare about seeing both games online (MK more so than AC, but AC was still widely speculated as being an excellent potential online game). Before the release of MKDD, people were going crazy over the notion that it COULD feature online play.
If Nintendo launches the game with an online meeting server, ladders and even tournaments, then I expect it will tear up the sales charts for quite some time and lend the DS its first TRUE system-seller. Right now, my friends who don't own the console find it to be a neat gimmick, but I don't yet have a game I can place in front of them which will cause them to say, "I need to buy this." However, AC online would do that in a heartbeat and MK online would likely do the same.
Maybe Nintendogs could perform the trick, but I'll have to play it before I can make a judgement call and thus I'm not certain. Unless MK and AC are royally botched, then they'll both haul DS systems like nothing else has yet.
-SB
Edit: And no, that was not intended as a pun.
I'm not doubting the selling power of Nintendogs, but unless Nintendo fires up a multi-million dollar ad campaign for the game in the US and hypes it like crazy, then I doubt it'll see the same sales here that it did in Japan.
I cite MK and AC because we already know they've both succeeded around the world AND there has been a great deal of fanfare about seeing both games online (MK more so than AC, but AC was still widely speculated as being an excellent potential online game). Before the release of MKDD, people were going crazy over the notion that it COULD feature online play.
If Nintendo launches the game with an online meeting server, ladders and even tournaments, then I expect it will tear up the sales charts for quite some time and lend the DS its first TRUE system-seller. Right now, my friends who don't own the console find it to be a neat gimmick, but I don't yet have a game I can place in front of them which will cause them to say, "I need to buy this." However, AC online would do that in a heartbeat and MK online would likely do the same.
Maybe Nintendogs could perform the trick, but I'll have to play it before I can make a judgement call and thus I'm not certain. Unless MK and AC are royally botched, then they'll both haul DS systems like nothing else has yet.
-SB
Edit: And no, that was not intended as a pun.