It’s bit arbitrary to not include the rereleases
Retro was apparently doing something else & most likely wanted to do something else after two DK games. Much they wanted to do something else after burning themselves out with 3 Prime games in a 6yr span.
They did their names were Rare & Retro.
If Both games were rereleased? Sure, go ahead. Counting both releases against a game that hasn't, like you did for Kirby or Metroid, No.
Splatoon doesn’t dwarf DKC
Didn't we go 10 years or so without a new 2D Mario?
Even counting original run sales DKC on average sells three times the number of copies as Metroid games
Except we have comparisons!
To be fair, I'd argue those franchises are under the same EPD team due to sharing a producer in Nogami moreso than any significant staff overlap. They probably could split into their own groups considering that Aya Kyogoku doesn't really touch Splatoon despite being EPD 5's manager.
This isn’t what makes a series continue… They aren’t going to keep exalting the sales of the best seller in the series WHEN the series sales aren’t consistently so… it’s also disingenuous to keep comparing the best seller in DK while choosing any arbitrary Zelda game…
It's not the mid-1990s anymore. And Splatoon is currently absolutely one of EPD's biggest franchises.
I feel like you're just ignoring my points you can't dispute, like Zelda...
It's worth noting the similar numbers is only due to them including the Gameboy versions of donkey kong country, which, no. We don't include the super mario bros game and watch in SMB's sales numebrs
DKCR made 70% of Splatoon 2’s sales
That's just arbitrary labeling.
I don’t need to respond to every point you make
That’s not a fair comparison because there are a LOT more Zelda games
It wasn’t really, about 30-40 million off in total series sales (mainline) now make it about 80 millions.
"Significant but not different league" with no elaboration absolutely is arbitrary.
Your words, not mine.
Super smash bros then? 4 games to how many DK???
No
You’re changing the subject
Not at all, countering your assertion that the number of games affects the sales numbers of DK being considered generally low.
Not when you factor in the number of people who own a switch vs who owned a Wii
Super Smash bros tho is just one series, so you’re cherry picking
That's still an arbitrary reading.
A to F is a scale, not a raw score
As you weren’t with Metroid and “majority” of Zelda games?
If DKCR were an extreme outlier for the DKC series but of course it is no such thing
No, if I scored 70% on a test, that's a pretty big difference from an A. But I was making a point, again, that the reading of your sales comparison is arbitrary. Just like you're arbitrarily counting some series but not others as valid comparison points to DK with no consistency whatsoever.
Again, please note the distinction between scale and raw score
Extreme outlier in what regard?
Not the point you should be focusing on.
Number of copies sold
You do know the EPD 8's first game wasn't even 3D Mario right? It was DK. And the whole "The creation of Mario and Zelda is rooted in history from before EPD existed" is just kinda illogical.
Except splatoon 2 Sold that much before Switch had an install base greater than the Wii.
There are titles with 1 million sold up to what? 9 million? And it is an outlier in the fact that it took 3 releases to accomplish what the initial DKC did.
Gonna need to see a citation for that first claim
I have no idea what you’re trying to say
I doubt itIt may come to you, it may not. Good luck!
Moving goal posts
It's is absolutely not fine in terms of brand strength. Cameos in a Mario movie means people consider him a Mario side character and not his own thing (branding) and its not a while-ass dedicated park, it's just a ride in the back of Nintendo World. When have you ever seen a brand stay relevant or grow because of a rollercoaster? F-Zero and Metroid have NEVER had the Brand strength of Donkey Kong so that just an odd comparison.
Neither Rare nor Retro were created for Donkey Kong, they actually weren't created by Nintendo at all. They were given DK and eventually they stopped doing DK. This literally helps my argument of making a DK team, not your argument.
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