What the fucking shit, the game released more than a year after the PS2 launch and still sold 8 millions...Has there ever been a similar case where a game released that late into the console lifetime became one of it's best selling games?
>>12526350DKC3 is the 11th best-selling SNES game and came out after the N64
Donkey Kong Country 3 is the 11th best selling Super Nintendo game moved 3.5 million copies in November of 1996, it came out after the N64. The save room sometimes has the character Wrinkly Kong playing on an N64 with a remix of the Mario 64 castle theme playing in the background. >>12526350Harry Potter didn't get a PS2 game until 2 years later and the Harry Potter mania was in full swing. I could see how this could happen. I'm sure it helps a lot that compact PS1's were still being sold for dirt cheap and the PS2 was backwards compatible.
>>12526350What's the 16th month? I thought there were only 12 months...
>>12526350Pokémon is the most obvious example. By the late 90s no one gave a fuck about the original Game Boy anymore. Then Pokémon Red and Blue came out internationally in late 1998 and became the best selling games on the system and gave Nintendo a second wind with their portable systems.
>>12526381I'm spanish here we say day/month/year
>>12526350Twilight Princess on the Shitcube
>>12526391That's not really the same ,there wasn't a gameboy successor
>>12526396Yes there was. The Virtual Boy. It just bombed so hard that it nearly killed off Nintendo's entire portable division with Gunpei Yokoi jumping ship afterwards. Luckily Pokémon proved to be a big enough success in Japan to encourage more developers to make games for the now extremely dated Game Boy tech. The Game Boy Color didn't even start development until 1997 when Yokoi was already gone and working on the WonderSwan.
>>12526393Ah, I don't speak Mexican. That explains it.
>>12526350Cultural phenomenon movie among the youthhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/820885.stmhttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/harry-potter-books-jk-rowling-b2107748.html
>>12526350It's a pack in game, it came free with the PSOne.
>>12526695There is something to that. A lot of people around the world could afford a PS1 for their kid on clearance when the PS2 was new and expensive.But the sales numbers are huge, it was over a year after the PS2 came out - Harry Potter was as big as (but less profitable than) Pokemon. Was it a good game? I don't know.
>>12526704>There is something to thatThat's what happened, counting pack-ins as unit sales is always disingenuous but nintendo relies on that so it's not allowed to be criticized.>the sales numbers are hugeYeah, the PSOne outsold the Xbox and Gamecube, of course it's huge.>, it was over a year after the PS2 came out Because the PSOne was available until 2005>Was it a good game? I don't know.It helps that it and its sequel are good games.
>>12526708>counting pack-ins as unit sales is always disingenuous but nintendo relies on that so it's not allowed to be criticized.Sega was even more guilty of this, since they were giving away multiple games plus slashing prices on both genesis and saturn. If you look at their top 10 best sellers its mostly bundled games. They gave away more copies of sonic 1 & 2 than they sold:Altered beastSonic 1Sonic 2Sonic 3Streets of rageGolden axeColumnsAladdin Sega was giving away 6 game bundles on their $89 genesis console, plus stores like EB and major retailers gave away free sonic 3 as in store specials even before sonic 3 replaced sonic 2 as the bundled game. This is why mortal kombat and madden 93 are the best selling non bundled games on the genesis.Same story on saturn, they cut prices and gave away vitual fighter 2, virtua cop, and daytona USA as the bundled games, and EB threw in panzer dragon or other unsold games with it as in-store specials.
>>12526350Can't ignore PS2 backwards compability likely helping its sales.
>>12526739>Sega was even more guilty of thisDisagree because I don't have sega fans bragging about game sales of their pack ins.
>>12526350harry potter hardly counts
>>12526739I forgot sonic &knuckles, and sonic spinball were bubdled later on as well. Plus sega sports 3-game bundle was common.
>>12526747But you dont see nintendo fans bragging about the sales of wii sports or super mario world either. As for Playstation it rarely came with any games at all, just a demo disc for much of the 90s. The psone did bundle games but that came out years later.
>philosopher’s stone Wat
Sneak King was released in 2006 and nearly outsold Halo 2 on the original Xbox.
>>12526695This, it was common. All the top sellers for each system were boosted by bundles.
>>12526416Spain is an european country
>>12526835No, it's in South America you idiot.
>>12526792You do
>>12526350Because PS2 could play PS1 games, some people were still on PS1, and Harry Potter was the hottest franchise then, you wouldn't get it.
>>12526350Pretty sure I had this growing up, kino game
>>12526350>the game released more than a year after the PS2 launch and still sold 8 millionsThat's what happens when you make a game and give the main character a pallete swap from a famous movie. Hairy pooper was a big deal to kids in the late 90s and early 2000s, and a lot of kids already had a PS1 due to it being such a popular console. It was a perfect storm, in some ways.
>>12526835Everyone except America is south of the border.
>>12526816Underrated post.
>>12526796Original name.
>>12527306>they reshot the scenes in the movie to match the different titlesHoly shit man. That is some dedication.
>>12526796>>12527306>>12527346changed because they figured american kids were too retarded btw
>>12526350It's kind of forgotten now, but Pottermania was a very real phenomenon after the books released in the US. I think we got the Sorcerer's Stone book in 1998, and it was kind of a slow seller at first, but it entered the bestseller's lists by the middle of '99, helped by adult word of mouth (basically parents buying this book for their kids, finding it to be great, and recommending their friends read it themselves). From then until the release of the first film in November 2001, it was absolutely the zenith of all pop culture, the release of Goblet of Fire in 2000 was one of the biggest events of the year, and people would buy absolutely anything that had the brand slapped on it. Thus for people who may have only had an old PS1 laying around and wanted to satisfy their Potter fever, this was a perfect purchase. The bundle for it too, was a huge help-- young kids begging for more Potter had their parents more willing to buy a cheap ass PSOne than a fancy PS2 or GameCube.
>>12527346>they reshot the scenes in the movieWhich ones?
>>12527378>Thus for people who may have only had an old PS1 laying around and wanted to satisfy their Potter fever, this was a perfect purchase.There was no next gen Potter game for 2 years so even if you had a shiny new PS2, this was your only option for home consoles. Also with nearly a hundred million PS1's sold vs less than 10 million PS2's (at the time) and less then 20 million 6th gen consoles sold in total, PS1 was still a power house. People forget that it takes a few years for a new generation to really get going.
>>12526381Funny how the country whose national holiday is called "The Fourth of July" still uses MM/DD/YYYY on calendars.
>>12527815>Funny how the country whose national holiday is called "The Fourth of July"Yes, it really stands out because every other day is spoken like "July 1st, July 2nd".>still uses MM/DD/YYYY on calendars.Attempting to frame it as outdated instead of alternate. It is really simple, written as spoken. November 16th, 2001. The only reason it bothers you is because you use a system that is slightly different but offer no real benefit or drawback.
>>12527821>no real benefitThe benefit of having DD/MM/YYYY is that you go from most changing (days) to least changing (years) which is logical and hence easier to deduce.Even better is the one from ISO standard - YYYY-MM-DD, you can easily sort such dates.
>>12527842>which is logical and hence easier to deduce.I promise you, know American is having trouble deducing MM/DD/YY unless they run into someone using the wrong system. It is literally just shorthand for how they say it.
>>12527804Huh that's weird actually! I didn't realize the 6th gen version wasn't released until later.
>>12526708>that picYeah resellers deserve to suffer.
>>12527847Interesting since America has a lot of people from other countries that don't follow the same date pattern...
>>12530408>has a lot of people from other countries that don't follow the same date pattern...Immigrants can either assimilate or GTFO.
