>>44163360There are people who buy both versions and the third version.
For example, how can we compare Emerald sales to Ruby and Sapphire sales?
How can we compare RGB, when blue released later than RG in japan, with any other original pair in any other generation?
Since ruby and sapphire don't differ that much, we can assume anyone who played RS bought atleast one version. So halving the sales is a conservative estimate on unique buyers of the game. If anything, it overestimates how many unique buyers got the games when there are two or more versions.
It lets us compare third versions to pairs (or triples in RGBs case). It also lets us compare between generations. In fact, I had another spreadsheet that showed sales per versions against sales of consoles which could play those games, to get a more reasonable comparison between the different generations.
Because the switch only sold 55million consoles, SWSH has been bought by a higher proportion of players who can run the game than gen 4 and 5, which has about 200+million sales in DS and 3DS.
But again, I can't count the number of individuals who own multiple DS and 3DS. I myself have a DS, DS lite, DSi, original 3DS, and two 3DS XL, yet I only need one to play a gen 4 or 5 game.
That's why I was asking for thoughts.
It's strange that B2W2 sold so much worse than BW, and is the worst selling game, yet is touted as the best game in the series.
It's also somewhat strange that Yellow sold the most units of a "third" version, and the most units per version.
It's strange that XY sold better than SM, and better than pretty much any other pair of games other than GS, DP, and Swoosh, despite it being touted as the worst.
I guess USUM could be added to SM, since it's so similar. But then I'd have to add every similar game to the others. Would I have to add remakes together? And so on.
Also, yes you could divide it yourself, but then you'd have to write down the numbers, to do the sorting that I've done here.
