At number four, Mario Party DS was the only survivor of the previous week’s chart, with a third consecutive week of sales above the 100,000 mark (110,000 of Mario Party DS this week). With a new lifetime-to-date total of 460,000 units, the game has now easily outsold Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii, which this week has fallen to number eleven. Gamasutra - Nov 29, 2007
Many DS games (especially ones with feature-rich multiplayer) require every player to have a seperate game cartridge. Or, if there's only one among players, you're limited in what you can do (ie, for Mario Kart DS, the people without a cartridge can only race as Shy Guy and you only have access to 1/4th of the tracks).
@Laoldar, I listed other reasons, you probably just missed them in the blizzard of down bids. I'm not saying it won't sell. I never said it won't sell. I said it's overpriced. I laid out what I thought was pretty good reasoning and got down bid.
Just so no one misses these, here's why I think this stock is overvalued: 1) Multiplayer from one card doesn't give younger, more cash strapped players incentive to buy their own copies. ; 2) I don't see this as being a "core" Mario game, in the sense that it's not a platformer (or Mario Kart); 3) The concept of a party game on DS seems kind of oxymoronic to me; especially since there's no Wi-Fi multiplayer, only local; 4) While people will buy a rehash of a game because it's on Wii, I don't think they'll do it on DS; 5) VGC is unreliable in the extreme for current data, much less games that were released before they existed. Are there other sources for your numbers than VGC? For definitive data, VGC doesn't cut it.
Like I said before, either I'll be right, or I'll be wrong. Also, don't be so sensitive; I said that my comments about VGC weren't directed at you, but for new people tuning in.
I already said "as a rough estimate". It's better than simply saying "it won't sell as well" and then challenging everyone else to prove you wrong. Why don't you give some reasons for your claim that it's over-priced?
So far the only reason you've listed is that it has single-card multiplayer (a feature on many DS games).
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