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I seriously doubt watching a speed run has sold any units at all. Those are the things people watch for games they already love.

JeremyBanks 4y ago
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galleywest200 4y ago
Maybe not console units, but I am sure it has sold games themselves. Games (and accessories) are where the money is, console units are commonly sold at or below cost
sverona 4y ago
Tetris: The Grand Master, a '90s arcade game that's been out of print for twenty years, was just rereleased for Switch more or less entirely because of its speedrunning community.
- jchw 4y ago
  It's sad what happened to that game. I feel that Arika's take on Tetris would've resonated with a lot of people had it not been forced into obscurity by the bizarre regime of guideline Tetris. But, the behavior of The Tetris Company is it's own bag of worms, and an even more agitating one than Nintendo. If anyone was looking for an example of how to be worse, I think TTC may very well have the formula down.
  - sverona 4y ago
    Nintendo is out of date. TTC verges on being a patent troll.
sleepybrett 4y ago
Sure but when your audience tunes in tuesday and you are playing the latest zelda game or whatever because it's the next game you are going to try and speedrun maybe you just sold some copies of that game. Pointcrow isn't, currently, one of those guys that plays just one game forever or even one game mostly. He's a 'variety streamer', he does have a pretty firm focus on nintendo games both classic and new but that isn't his whole ouvre.
numpad0 4y ago
I think it could be moving some, but IMO more correct thing to say is that "they should be thankful for free advertisement" argument never goes well. It makes no visible changes but seems to silently lock closed doors.
viraptor 4y ago
I got 2 games after watching a speedrun, so... you're off by at least those. But seriously, events like agdq have enough variety that people do get to see new things there.

JeremyBanks 4y ago

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galleywest200 4y ago

Maybe not console units, but I am sure it has sold games themselves. Games (and accessories) are where the money is, console units are commonly sold at or below cost

sverona 4y ago

Tetris: The Grand Master, a '90s arcade game that's been out of print for twenty years, was just rereleased for Switch more or less entirely because of its speedrunning community.

jchw 4y ago
It's sad what happened to that game. I feel that Arika's take on Tetris would've resonated with a lot of people had it not been forced into obscurity by the bizarre regime of guideline Tetris. But, the behavior of The Tetris Company is it's own bag of worms, and an even more agitating one than Nintendo. If anyone was looking for an example of how to be worse, I think TTC may very well have the formula down.
- sverona 4y ago
  Nintendo is out of date. TTC verges on being a patent troll.

sleepybrett 4y ago

Sure but when your audience tunes in tuesday and you are playing the latest zelda game or whatever because it's the next game you are going to try and speedrun maybe you just sold some copies of that game. Pointcrow isn't, currently, one of those guys that plays just one game forever or even one game mostly. He's a 'variety streamer', he does have a pretty firm focus on nintendo games both classic and new but that isn't his whole ouvre.

numpad0 4y ago

I think it could be moving some, but IMO more correct thing to say is that "they should be thankful for free advertisement" argument never goes well. It makes no visible changes but seems to silently lock closed doors.

viraptor 4y ago

I got 2 games after watching a speedrun, so... you're off by at least those. But seriously, events like agdq have enough variety that people do get to see new things there.