Quote Originally Posted by j_factor View Post
More sales = more support. It's as simple as that.

I tried that attitude before. "I'll just play what I like and not even pay attention to sales!" And then I wondered why new Saturn games weren't coming out. Didn't work out so well.

Same thing sorta happened to me again. Just as I was getting ready to get an N-Gage, there was suddenly hardly any games anywhere, and what was left was clearance. I asked a guy a Gamestop and he was like, oh yeah, they're getting rid of that thing, and no more games are coming out for it. I was like, really? I had no idea. I knew that it never sold as well as GBA or anything, but some pretty cool games had come out, and I thought it would stick around a while longer.

That's not to say that either of these systems will be like Saturn or N-Gage. But sales DO matter. The sales of DS and PSP have had a direct effect on their libraries.
Yes, sales do matter.

Specullative discussions about which one will outsell the other do not and generally serve no purpose but to cause any intelligent conversation to degenerate into a prick-waving contest.

Furthermore, regardless of how little the Saturn and the N-Gage sold, my point is that this is one of the only gaming communities that embraces those systems for better or for worse ... so why do we find the need to nit-pick over sales on systems that are practically guaranteed to sell well enough to the point where those numbers don't even really matter, and even if either or both DON'T have healthy sales cycles, in years to come we're the place where people will have nostalgic discussions about how great those systems were despite how little they sold.