Unfortunately, it seems that the games didn’t sell exceptionally well sales figures are difficult to find, but it seems none broke a million, selling a few hundred thousand copies each. That was before I bought my 360, ie, two whole console generations ago.Īdvance Wars is a series of top-down, tactical combat games with a modern military feel but an (on the whole) cartoony and light-hearted aesthetic. Several AW games were released on GBA and DS and they were all critically acclaimed, especially the first. But I was surprised when looking up developer Intelligent Systems’ other franchise, Advance Wars (also referred to as Nintendo Wars), that the last entry in that series was Days of Ruin, which I remember playing on the DS way back in 2008. It’s good to see that Nintendo is giving the series such love and that it has been commercially successful. I love the series and played all of the other games released in the West on GBA and DS. I’ve just purchased my first 3DS, persuaded to do so at last by the release of the new Fire Emblem games. But considering the unparalleled strength of the company’s stable of characters, and the unmatched quality of the back catalogue, it’s understandable. My brother and I joke about Nintendo’s fondness for remaking the same games over and over on new consoles: sometimes making virtually the same game, sometimes literally releasing the same game, except in HD, 3D, or whatever. Since then we’ve owned almost every system Nintendo have put out: two or three Super Nintendos, N64, two Gamecubes, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Advance, two DS’s, Wii, Wii U, two 3DS’s. In my family, we’ve been playing Nintendo games for over 25 years, since we first got a NES back around 1990.
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