At first I didn't really think about the DS version. I was thinking that success on portables does not translate to success on home consoles. That is wrong, I have learned that.
Some examples: Even though the home console pokemon games are mostly mediocre, they have sold very well. Did you know Pokemon Snap for N64 sold 3.6M copies? I didn't until today.
Tetris would be the one that I would expect to only do well on portables, but Tetris Worlds sold slightly better (1.66 to 1.49) on PS2 than GBA.
Most top selling DS games have console counterparts which also have done well: Mario Bros, Mario Kart, Pokemon, Warioware, Dragon Quest.
I guess I was confusing the difference in quality and sales. Often a portable spin off from a home console game will be very poor, or the other way around.
My comment on time wasting was just experience from the first game. I tried picking up my game for 5-10 mins after I had not played for a couple weeks, and what happens is that my town is full of weeds and everyone is unhappy. To not have a crappy town you need to play regularly just to pull weeds and stuff. Maybe they fixed this in the DS version.
I have already re-evaluated my take on this stock. I still get a bad feeling about it, not sure if it will do 3+ million, but I know that I should not be shorting it. I think I will just stay away from this one until we know more details. I am still kind of new here, and learning a lot about how this stuff works. I didnt do my research on this stock.
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Some examples:
Even though the home console pokemon games are mostly mediocre, they have sold very well. Did you know Pokemon Snap for N64 sold 3.6M copies? I didn't until today.
Tetris would be the one that I would expect to only do well on portables, but Tetris Worlds sold slightly better (1.66 to 1.49) on PS2 than GBA.
Most top selling DS games have console counterparts which also have done well: Mario Bros, Mario Kart, Pokemon, Warioware, Dragon Quest.
I guess I was confusing the difference in quality and sales. Often a portable spin off from a home console game will be very poor, or the other way around.
My comment on time wasting was just experience from the first game. I tried picking up my game for 5-10 mins after I had not played for a couple weeks, and what happens is that my town is full of weeds and everyone is unhappy. To not have a crappy town you need to
play regularly just to pull weeds and stuff. Maybe they fixed this in the DS version.
I have already re-evaluated my take on this stock. I still get a bad feeling about it, not sure if it will do 3+ million, but I know that I should not be shorting it. I think I will just stay away from this one until we know more details. I am still kind of new here, and learning a lot about how this stuff works. I didnt do my research on this stock.