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It's wild to me how Team Sonic Racing sold more than Total War Three Kingdoms
by koshergweilo 1y ago
It's wild to me how Team Sonic Racing sold more than Total War Three Kingdoms
- kmeisthax 1y ago[dead]
- raincole 1y ago... Why? It would be quite surprising if it were the other way around. I'm quite surprised that TW:3D sold that many copies, tbh.
- pinoy420 1y ago[dead]
- CactusRocket 1y agoI think in general Total War and its genre is relatively niche. While almost everybody is up for a bit of cartoony racing.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoRTSs aren’t popular anymore. Took me by surprise too.
- Nasrudith 1y agoPC games are relatively niche compared to console gaming for one. And RTSes tend to be heavily PC biased from the control schemes. Although these days you should be able to keyboard and mouse to a console due to being USB or Bluetooth connected anyway, using it on a couch without a desk would be awkward.
- Ekaros 1y agoOn other hand TW Warhammer III sold surprisingly well to me. I would have expected it to be much more niche...
- ls612 1y agoThere’s no fucking way they would have spent so much money on three WH titles and a fuckton of DLC to make an absolutely colossal RTS game if it was niche. Total War Warhammer single handedly saved WH Fantasy with how well it sold.
- furyofantares 1y agoI tbink it's easy to underestimate this - everyone seems surprised when I tell them Mario Kart 8 is the 5th best selling game of all time.
- andrepd 1y agoWell it's been continuously sold for over a decade now, and bundled with the Switch.
- furyofantares 1y agoIt's bundled due to the success of the game and not the other way around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338584
- mook 1y agoFamitsu (a Japanese magazine) has top ten sales of console games in Japan every week. Until the Switch 2 launch, Mario Kart 8 was there nearly every week.
- stavros 1y agoWhat's the list?!
- astura 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
- k__ 1y agoInteresting that most of the best selling games aren't sequels.
- dijit 1y agoIt’s more interesting to me that so many are. It’s rare for any product to have more success in later invocations than the first edition, that is where the narrative is fresh and strong- and even in the event sequels are stronger, they tend to increase sales of the first season/movie/etc; because people want the whole experience.
- makeitdouble 1y agoTeam Sonic Racing is also available on iOS and android stores while Total War Three Kingdoms is PC only. The price must also be widely different, so the sales numbers are complex to compare.
- Kye 1y agoCritters doing zoomies will always be popular as a game concept.