Re:Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
by derefr on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:27AM
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Wii Sports was one of the first mainstream games. That's pretty much the boundary of the two eras. Everyone at the time was talking about how the Wii was penetrating all these "mainstream" markets that gaming had never managed to touch before, remember?
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Re:Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
by freddie_mercury on Saturday December 22, 2018 @02:51AM
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Tetris has sold 170 million copies.
Super Mario Bros sold over 40 million copies.
Both of those games are 30 years old. Wii Sports was not even close to being one of the first mainstream games.
The original Pokemon games sold over 30 million copies, inspired a massive worldwide TV show, and that was over 20 years ago.
Re:Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
by ineedasername on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:22PM
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I'm wondering if comments like this, that place "mainstream" somewhere in the mid 2000's, are being made by people born later, who grew up with ps2/gamecube and then wii console gen. They strike me as not being very familiar at all with the actual success and market penetration of videogames before then.