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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 00:45:25 No.22544205 View View Reply Original Report

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DS sales when HGSS came out: 125M
HGSS sales after 6 weeks: 5.8M

3DS sales when ORAS came out: 49M
ORAS sales after 6 weeks: 7.1M

Was RSE that popular? I don't think only Christmas could explain that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 00:49:27 No.22544252 Report

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hoenn 2 stronk

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 01:00:28 No.22544359 Report

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>>22544205
RSE are popular, not of course is as popular as muh genwun but the reason it's sold as well as it has is because people have been waiting so long for these remakes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 01:06:50 No.22544429 Report

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>>22544205

HGSS was after the 3rd version came out.

ORAS came after the main games. Plus, the 3DS fanbase is nowhere as big or varied as the DS fanbase.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 01:33:33 No.22544741 Report

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>>22544205
It feels like a lot of people who haven't played for ages or at all picked up ORAS. The 3D obviously helped, but I think the increased story/shipping shit snagged more of an audience this time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 01:43:07 No.22544840 Report

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Also less handheld console sales in general cause of mobile "gaming"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 04:45:53 No.22546597 Report

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>>22544205
Because casuals loved all of the new features that ORAS brought to the table and didn't care about the shit that /vp/ wanted, like muh frontier and muh game corner.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 04:47:07 No.22546603 Report

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>the worse game sold more

fuck this reality.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 04:47:09 No.22546604 Report

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>>22546597
Pretty much. I can really see kids totally eating up Delta Episode as the best shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 04:49:26 No.22546614 Report

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>>22544205
I wouldn't be surprised if RSE were more popular than GSC.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 04:52:58 No.22546639 Report

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>>22546597
>>22546604
/vp/ is just an echo chamber, lots of people here think that the Battle Frontier being gone (among other things) is a big deal. But, well... it's far from being a big deal. Including a ton of legendaries in the game instead of the Frontier was a great idea, and sales number back that up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:06:17 No.22546751 Report

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>>22546614
It wasn't though. GSC was around the time when Gewunners started leaving the franchise as they grew up. When you couldn't transfer your Gen 2 Pokemon to RS, that just made even more people drop the series.

I imagine RSE regained some popularity with the prominence of GBA emulators later on, but Gen 3 in general were the dark ages of Pokemon popularity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:09:27 No.22546783 Report

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>>22546751
This, and do not forget DP were so shitty that a lot of those who remained decided to leave... everything started going upwards again with the release of Platinum, and that some genwunners were attracted back with HGSS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:12:26 No.22546808 Report

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>>22546783
>DP
>Shitty

nah, with Wifi and Phys/Special split?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:12:33 No.22546811 Report

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>>22546783
Pretty funny how D/P are arguably the worst games in the series while Platinum is one of the greatest despite being essentially the same game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:12:37 No.22546812 Report

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>>22546751
Yeah, RSE barely missed the nostalgia cutoff.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:19:36 No.22546894 Report

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>>22544205

RSE was actually the best generation, it is sad the battle frontier is gone from the remakes, but to be fair I doubt people put too much care into it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:21:27 No.22546915 Report

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>>22546811
the time it takes for a blissey hp bar to go to 0 from a ohko really makes a difference dear cynthia

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:22:46 No.22546931 Report

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>>22546811

It's all about those times, Cynthia.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:22:55 No.22546934 Report

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>>22546811
> D/P are arguably the worst games in the series

I thought Gold and Silver were worse if you played them standalone.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:28:45 No.22546998 Report

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>>22544205
X Y sold 4M in two days, 8M in 6 weeks, 12M in 4 months.

The shift to 3D and being the first Pokémon game for 3DS brought huge amounts of people back, and that trend passed on to ORAS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:36:01 No.22547064 Report

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>>22546934
D/P is slow as fuck, if you want the battles to go faster you have to forgo intimidate mons aka staraptor, arguably the best pokemon for a solo run, and without infernape you are fucked

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:40:01 No.22547098 Report

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>>22546998
It brought me back. Hadn't played a Pokémon game since 2002.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:41:59 No.22547122 Report

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Gee, it's almost like most people didn't give a shit about the Frontier, the way some shitposters here did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:42:54 No.22547134 Report

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>>22547064
>D/P is slow as fuck

Meh i am an impatient person and i didnt find it slow at all.

Maybe ionly in the Battle Tower/Frontier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 06:09:30 No.22547415 Report

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I didn't bother to buy a 2DS only to buy ORAS that didn't have battle frontier. Not paying for a half assed game

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 06:11:32 No.22547432 Report

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>>22544205
Obviously. Emerald was the best game after all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 06:15:34 No.22547457 Report

Quoted By: >>22548096

3DS does not have as many games as the DS, at least not yet. The DS had more things to spend money on, the 3DS has less to choose from.

Just remember that sales do not dictate if a game is good or bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 07:10:46 No.22547807 Report

Quoted By: >>22548096

There's far less people owning a 3DS than old DS.

Plus, nowhere as many games on 3DS has the DS. And HGSS not only had their attention cut short by Gen 5, it came after DPPT. ORAS is in the middle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 07:48:41 No.22548053 Report

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HGSS wasn't worldwide launch

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 07:55:01 No.22548071 Report

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>>22546597
>Muh hardcore gamecorner

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 08:00:31 No.22548096 Report

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>>22547457
>>22547807
>>22548053
>all this damage control

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 08:30:29 No.22548285 Report

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>>22548096
This. /vp/ is so unaware of what the majority of people like or want it's hilarious. Consider HGSS next to ORAS. One is 3D, has a pretty large and likeable cast of characters with an okay plot, legendaries flying out of its ass, and an easy maingame. The other is 2D, has no real plot, no standout characters, and relies mostly on nostalgiafag hype. I love both games, but I have to laugh at people trying to blame the hardware for ORAS doing better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 08:38:31 No.22548326 Report

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>>22548285
ORAS had a worldwide release.

HGSS was released in Japan on September 12 2009, February 4 2010 in Korea, March 14 2010 in North America, March 25 2010 in Australia and March 26 2010 in Europe. This has nothing to do with hardware.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 08:39:29 No.22548330 Report

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>>22548285
>ORAS has a pretty large and likeable cast of characters
>HGSS no standout characters
>HGSS no real plot
>Listing ORAS mini games but not listing HGSS mini games, instead using buzzwords like nostalgiafag
>but I have to laugh at people trying to blame the hardware for ORAS doing better. Yet earlier in the post mentions how ORAS has 3D model and HGSS does not
Dat bias

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 08:51:53 No.22548365 Report

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>>22544205

3DS is currently back in nogaemz mode until Fire Emblem comes out, so it's not surprising that a lot of people bought it since otherwise their 3DS would be collecting dust.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 08:55:00 No.22548377 Report

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>>22548365
>Majora's Mask 3D

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 09:01:06 No.22548397 Report

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>>22548377

>port

literally the vita

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 09:02:06 No.22548400 Report

Quoted By: >>22548425

XY master race here, skipping ORAS

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 09:09:18 No.22548425 Report

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>>22548400
Good decision. If you ever feel the urge to purchase it, please purchase a second hand copy so as to not give GF and Nintendo more money.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2015 09:15:33 No.22548448 Report

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The 3DS still had no games. The gba and the DS had a lot more games after being out this long. The pokemon games were not worth spending £200 for. The power of it isn't even that great either, smartphones have better graphics which should not be the be the case because it's not a dedicated consol. It's just gimmicky crap. Having 2 screens is useful but having 3D is a gimmick. Every new portable machine that can play games are better than the DS. Nintendo's hardware for consoles are always crap it out goes for portables too. The DS only got more sales than the psp because of casuals but now that there are smartphones they're obsolete. They are behind and a few candy crush clones aren't going to make it better because casuals would have an ipad or something. Do the 3DS sucks and pokemon is overrated outdated shit that should ditch handheld and be put on home consoles.

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