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@Agramonte "It is a "record year" but they lost Bungie and they had an entire division working on support for Destiny they have zero need for. Forecast for 2019 is down.

Also, everyone At Blizzard gets 2 Bonuses a year depending on the profit for that quarter. So they have profit sharing with the artist that make games. They actually hiring more Game Designers and Digital Artist"

Bobby couldn't have said it better, you should ask him to hire you for PR, you'd be great.

@Agramonte nobody defended Nintendo for firing people, unlike Bob Cottick's lap dogs here and on other sites

@Agramonte I was expecting the corporate apologists to come sooner, thanks for showing up to defend your buddy Bobby. Also, we're in 2019, not 2014, might need to update your calendar

@Bliquid are you triggered darling? Breathe. Relax. Go out and find some friends.

@Bliquid we're here. If you can't afford 20 bucks a year you either need to look at your life choices or get a better job. Your pick

@misterMike get a better job, this one doesn't seem to be paying you enough which means we have to read your mindless moaning all the time. Good job=more money to spend and play quality games=less time to moan about things that nobody makes you buy

@koekiemonster the fact that they know doesn't mean they can. Do you see Sony reporting how many copies RDR sold? Or Microsoft reporting COD sales? As for mobile sales, they report downloads, not sales, and unless the game was not free to play it is again impossible to approximate how much it really sold

@diablo2 not your fault, it's that headline they use and they do it every single time

@diablo2 this list is from Nintendo and thus contains only Nintendo published games. They cannot publish sales of third party games, that's on the respective publishers, and there's plenty of multimillion third party sellers on 3DS, off the top of my head I can think various MH games, Yokai Watch, Minecraft, etc

@SwitchForce it's the same guy who said the only good Mario Kart is the SNES one and Hollow Knight and Celeste are "crap." Don't mind him, he sometimes forgets his meds and that's what happens

@Evilworm send an email to Nintendo to complain then and stop destroying everyone's brain cells.

Oh look, it's @Evilworm the prophet! Let's see what this specimen wrote in the past: "Watch it Nintendo Fanboys you're celebrating too early. Many people buy the console placing high hopes in their titles but soon nintendo gonna dash this hope. If Nintendo keep announcing ports and indies and double down on Mobile titles, it really is Nintendoom when least expected!." Not a very good day for you buddy, let me know if you want me to send your local water company to collect your tears

@Agramonte these numbers are from September. I guess if you have the emotional maturity of a 10 year old and never read a good story in your life, David Cage's "games" would appeal to you. Why don't you tell us about the press Sony got for his studio's work culture and the lawsuits that are still ongoing? Great press right there too

@Agramonte still, this sold more than Detroit become Human. Now go enjoy the vaporware you've been waiting 10 years for and let people enjoy creativity than the same old bollocks

@Kienda a) your number of Switch owners is 3 months old, b) one has been in the market for 5 years and a few months, the other for less than 2 years. Basic math should be required before commenting here, wtf

@electrolite77 you're right, my bad. To be honest I don't see why you'd need that kind of info if you're not a shareholder or something. At the end of the day for them it's just more income for them for a service that was provided for free previously

@Kienda good points except that about 40% of PS4 owners have a PS plus subscription as per Sony's info and half of Switch owners have Switch online so I wouldn't say they "dwarf" anything

@RedMageLanakyn careful there or you might cut yourself on that edge..

@BarFooToo weren't you around in the Wii/DS era?

@Agramonte never said it was the cost of the first game, read my comment again. For a studio the size of Bungie 100m is peanuts when they're used to have the backing of Microsoft and Activision

@Agramonte that's one fifth of Destiny's budget for a studio of 700 people based in Washington. Nowhere near enough well funded, unless the scope is one fifth of Destiny- not that Bungie ever made limited scope games

@Mykillvee stop posting the same crap on every page. Nobody is forcing you to buy it

I mean, Nintendo has moved on since last year, the fact that they are still selling the system doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. There haven't been much but ports in more than a year and the few remaining games are also ports, so I think it's only on NL's mind that the company hasn't entirely focused on the Switch

@Blitzenexx that's exactly what people forget. While Superstar Saga was a GBA game, therefore not playable on 3DS, Bowser's inside story is a DS game that I'm sure can be found for cheap second hand if someone was desperate to play it before the remake

@Steel76 agreed 100%, with the exception (I think) of ports that include a ton of DLC that they previously charged for (like Hyrule warriors for example). But this, alongside DKTF, should have been 30$ max, considering that both games received selects versions that were sold exactly for that price

@Gowtu_Games did you even bother reading the article?

@ryancraddock Nintendo has done that many times in the past, from the previous generation as well, and not just in Europe. That's not new (or newsworthy), so either report it each and every time they do it or not at all

@Morph well my response was to your comment about cracking Europe. During the Wii generation Nintendo sold more than the competition even across Europe (the Wii itself sold 8.4 mil consoles in the UK alone, the PS4 is not even close to that number). They crack Europe when they sell something appealing even if it's not as prevalent as Japan or the US.

@Morph all these series except for red dead have been on Nintendo consoles (and handhelds) in the past, both on instances where Nintendo crashed the competition (Wii/DS gen) or was crashed by the competition (Wii U gen). Guess what they both have in common? These games didn't make an ounce of a difference. I don't think anybody bought a Wii for the multiple Call of Duties it received or the Wii U for the two Assassin's Creed games. They're a nice bonus, and good to have, but that's it

@Tao 7 exclusives (excluding ports) but yeah man, just Smash. To be fair, you sound very confused. Early New Year's eve drinks?

@brunojenso me too man, me too.

@Wanjia it also came out on the PS3 (that's the version I bought)

@Ralizah apologies they did announce it in December, which is 9 months after the Switch was out, you're right. Anyway, this is irrelevant to persona, the original Catherine was also on the 360 but the remake won't be. I think the only reason it's put out is so they can make some money off the 5 people that still play on the Vita, Atlus always releases games till the very end of a platform's lifetime so that's no different

@Ralizah that was announced in 2017 though, before the Switch even existed and before the Vita stopped production of both hardware and software. Not the same thing at all

@Ralizah while what you say about the main Persona games is true, I think of it from a different angle. Every mainline persona to this day had a home and a portable version (except for 5) with the portable version coming later down the line. The 3DS can't get 5 and the Vita is dead with no successor on the horizon. If a portable version would come, and I do think it will since there are no power issues (the difference between the PS3 and the PS4 versions is purely visuals), the Switch would be the only viable platform

@GrailUK I was gonna say, there are some third party gems that are stuck on the Wii U and could easily sell a lot better on the Switch. Besides the ones you mentioned,I'd also add Injustice (as a complete edition), Mass Effect 3 (with the addition of the first 2 if EA had any sense), Splinter Cell Blacklist, and maybe Tekken Tag tournament 2 if they don't want to put out a main series game

@c2018nlifemedia did you seriously create a new profile just to defend yourself? Hahahaha no way, now I've seen it all

@Minouche all 3ds games work on a 2DS, it's the same system minus the 3D effect

@NEStalgia well it's 14.7 millions on 85 million consoles combined so 1 in 6 people owned smash in the previous generation, it'll be interesting to compare sales related to install base end of January when the financials will be announced.

@Helix87UKNOW your stupidity knows no limits. These numbers are for Japan only, sorry if that hurts your feelings. These numbers are reported each week, which you would know if you weren't a sad pathetic troll who's not only lying but literally claims that a report of sales is NL hyping Smash fans. Go out, get some air, talk to a therapist. Sounds like you need it

@NEStalgia Smash 4 sold 14.7 millions (both versions combined). The series has been selling more with each iteration, Ultimate should easily clear 20 million in the long run. No other fighting series (nowadays, not the SF2 days) could even dream of these numbers. And people forget something else. How much money did they make from the more than 70+ amiibo (this is the game that started them in the first place) that they are still making, the various pieces of DLC on Wii U/3DS or the season pass from Ultimate? For me the greatest part is that the game is not just a celebration of all things Nintendo but of gaming in general, no other series could do a crossover like Smash

@WiltonRoots Pacman!

@NEStalgia I studied in the US from the early to the late 00's, Smash has always been huge in the West, I don't know how a series where the worst selling title still sold 5.5 million can ever be "niche." It was always among the top choices for games in our college dorm and we were far from the only playing either Melee or Brawl (depending which console was available at hand)

@WiltonRoots there couldn't be a better placement for your comment, the perfect follow up!

@electrolite77 I think he means the weekly results, not overall. I would prefer of they included actual figures with the weekly results, like in Japan, or otherwise make them monthly like the US.

@Mountain_Man he's just jealous his "hardcore" console isn't getting a Civ game anytime soon. And he's using the UK charts as if they mean anything 😂😂

@Cobalt take your trolling and gtfo here. Literally every comment you make has a ton of dislikes, go be a troll somewhere else, I'm sure other basement dwelling neckbeards will welcome you with open arms

@WiltonRoots he's got fajitas in his username

@WiltonRoots there's a certain dude who occasionally posts here (usually with comments that he probably thinks are very witty and snarky) and in the PS sister site and has been crying about Pokémon's sales for weeks now. I can't wait for next week so I can drink his delicious tears, it'll save me a trip to Tesco to buy bottled water for a month or so

@NewAdvent I mean, it's also released for the PS4 and the Xbone at the same time, so nothing to do with the machine the "casuals" play.

@construx while that's a noble aim, even when Nintendo is at its most successful (as with the Wii for example) it still doesn't get many of these games. Some will come, like the next Doom and the next Wolfenstein, and others will not. I think the failure of certain games on the Wii U (assassin's creed, Watchdogs, Splinter Cell, COD, Need for Speed, Madden) makes the return of these series highly unlikely and that's not only due to technical limitations. I think that the publishers who are willing to take a risk though, like Bethesda, will be rewarded in the long run, hopefully others will follow suit too