Comments on: Mario & Sonic at the Olympics Sells 5 Million Copies

By: Tustin

Tustin — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:23:38 +0000

How the heck do you play an Olympics game on the DS anyway? The only really good thing the DS has going for it (in controls) is the Touch Screen. What are you going to do? Swish the stylus back and forth on the screen to throw the javelin? Yell into the microphone to take a breath in swimming? There’s nothing practical that you could do.

BTW, I think the Wii game is great. At least it got me away from playing Wii Sports all the time with my friends who don’t have a Wii.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:34:53 +0000

I would like to point out that the “5 million copies” is referring to the combined total of Wii and DS versions of the game sold.

So it doesn’t quite confirm we’re wrong, although I suppose that could change within just a couple more months.

By: CSX

CSX — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:41:36 +0000

I’m a little surprised it sold this many copies myself. After borrowing a friend’s copy of the game for the DS I found it to be completely unplayable crap. But, to tell the truth, if the controls weren’t so shoddy and complicated it’d be VERY much worth playing.

By: 2-D

2-D — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:39:54 +0000

I agree with Tim, although 5 million is a lot more sales than our blue blur has seen in a good while *sigh* what happened to the genesis days?

or even Dreamcast days.

I figure SA2 was the last good home game for Sonic and pals. The rush games were pretty good, and Riders was eh. Everything else was pretty craptastic. I do have high-hopes for Sonic RPG though.

By: dr. game

dr. game — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:12:24 +0000

but i wold rather have a grate game than a pice of crap and the last part of that fomual is wrong + great game = WAY MORE PROFIT