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Oh_you_travel
07/16/21 9:28:09 PM
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Metroid Prime:Echoes sold like 2.5 million copies. I feel like Ive read like 5000 internet posts praising it. Thats a very high post:copy ratio imho. Discuss.
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Doe
07/16/21 9:35:33 PM
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Delirious_Beard
07/16/21 9:37:55 PM
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the gamecube sold rather poorly in general

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Middle hope
07/16/21 9:38:07 PM
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Rentals were a huge thing back then AND it got a rerelease on the WII

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MC_BatCommander
07/16/21 9:38:58 PM
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2.5 million was usually pretty good for high budget games back then

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WrestlinFan
07/16/21 9:39:42 PM
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Dolphin has worked fine on potatoes for what, a decade now?

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Irony
07/16/21 9:39:50 PM
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2.5m is a lot. You're spoiled by Call of Duty numbers

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LightHawKnight
07/16/21 9:39:55 PM
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2.5 million is barely sold?

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What_
07/16/21 9:40:21 PM
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MC_BatCommander posted...
2.5 million was usually pretty good for high budget games back then
This

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Oh_you_travel
07/16/21 9:47:32 PM
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I was just in a thread where there was a consensus that Perfect Darks sales of 2.5m or so were weak. Are we moving the goalposts for Echoes?
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Oh_you_travel
07/16/21 9:49:22 PM
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Also I was mistaken in OP haha, Echoes sold 1.1m, Prime 1 2.9m
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Oh_you_travel
07/17/21 8:04:07 AM
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bump
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Kaldrenthebold
07/17/21 8:06:07 AM
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It used to be back in the day a million seller was a marvel. 2.5 million is quite good for the time.

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Wii_Shaker
07/17/21 8:07:52 AM
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Imagine if the Gamecube was online compatible and could play DVDs out of the box.

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Oh_you_travel
07/17/21 8:09:33 AM
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Wii_Shaker posted...
Imagine if the Gamecube was online compatible and could play DVDs out of the box.

it was online capable haha
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Wii_Shaker
07/17/21 8:11:19 AM
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Oh_you_travel posted...
it was online capable haha
Yeah, it could also play DVDs, at least the hardware is capable of doing so.

Another example of Nintendo shooting their dicks off again.

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Oh_you_travel
07/17/21 8:18:18 AM
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No I mean Phantasy Star Online existed. Literally no reason why there wasnt more support, but PS2 wasnt much better.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube_online_functionality
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Wetterdew
07/17/21 8:18:42 AM
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Wii_Shaker posted...
Yeah, it could also play DVDs, at least the hardware is capable of doing so.

Another example of Nintendo shooting their dicks off again.
the cd slot is too small to fit a dvd in :(

But yeah some of the games didn't sell so well. Wikipedia says by 2009 Prime 2 had sold 800K copies worldwide.

Eternal Darkness sold less than half a million copies worldwide

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Oh_you_travel
07/17/21 8:20:15 AM
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Wetterdew posted...
the cd slot is too small to fit a dvd in :(

But yeah some of the games didn't sell so well. Wikipedia says by 2009 Prime 2 had sold 800K copies worldwide.

Eternal Darkness sold less than half a million copies worldwide

Thats the thing, Ive probably read half a million words on the internet about how great these games are, thats like one word per unit sold haha

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