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Killer App

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Killer App	comment	Short for "killer application", a killer app is a piece of software so good that it's considered a must-own if you have the system it's released for, and is in fact a reason in and of itself to buy said system. When you buy literature, you get a single self-contained experience: the book contains all there is to this particular adventure. When you buy a ticket for a film or a stage show, you get two hours of drama, and that's all there is to see (until the inevitable sequel, that is). But electronic hardware isn't like that. Music players, movie players, computers, video game consoles, tablet computers... They all require software to run, and each piece of software delivers a different experience: a photo-editing suite can't be used to balance your checkbook, for instance, or vice versa. As such, hardware and software are separate yet interlinked categories, and one is used to judge the other: the same piece of software might run much more efficiently on one computer than another, and you'd factor that in when deciding what hardware or software to buy. And, just to add to the confusion, a fair amount of software is exclusive to one piece of hardware, or family of hardware: for instance, Microsoft for the longest time resisted releasing its "Office" suite of productivity software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) for iPad, to keep their competing "Surface" tablets relevant. And that's where we get to this trope. A "killer app" is a piece of software that validates the hardware. It provides such an excellent user experience that it justifies buying the hardware. The term is primarily used within the world of video gaming, but originated outside it: it was used, especially during the '90s Internet boom, to describe the mythical invention that everyone in America needed and which would make its developers — and their investors — rich beyond their wildest dreams. The term can also be used on a more serious context, used to refer to a very useful application which immediately becomes a "must-have", which is, in fact, the original meaning of the term. It was first applied in 1979, when the first spreadsheet application, VisiCalc, was released for Apple ][, and became a must-have virtually immediately, spawning hordes of clones and imitations on numerous platforms. And, indeed, when the term is applied in this manner, only a very few applications apply, including word processors, spreadsheets, database management programs, email clients, and web browsers. The only thing everyone agrees on is that any new hardware attempting to launch itself should have a Killer App at hand, especially if the hardware itself is a video game console—that business is more software-driven than any other, and backward compatibility being less present, a new system has to rely even more on dedicated software. While most products that attain killer app status are extremely successful and popular, it should be noted here that "creating a true killer app" is akin to "writing the Great American Novel": everybody wants to, but nobody has yet created (or is likely to create) the definitive killer app. Note that a killer app is more than just a good game. A game can be good, great, critically acclaimed, even an all-time classic... and still not be this (conversely, not all killer apps are great by modern standards; some of them seem quite dated today). A killer app is insanely popular in its own time, enough so as to single-handedly drive sales for its system (hence the alternate term "System Seller"). The examples that follow, then, are not just the games that tropers loved, but rather the games that everyone loved; the ones that made their respective systems. Arguing over which killer app provides the most bang for its buck is a large part of the Console Wars. If an anticipated game shares the same genre as an existing Killer App, it may be called a [Insert Game Here] Killer, however this often puts unrealistic expectations on the upcoming title. Compare Star-Making Role (equivalent for actors) and Breakthrough Hit (equivalent for creators). Not to be confused with the GameBoy Advance game TRON 2.0: Killer App, nor the TRON 2.0 Xbox port of the same name.
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Killer App / int_1081aa34	comment	In the United Kingdom, WipEout was far and away the most popular title from the PlayStation's 1995 launch lineup. The game's fast pace, mutli-player gameplay and hip techno soundtrack made it massively popular with the young adult and twenty-something demographic that Sony wanted to attract to their system. It was the best selling game in Europe for the PlayStation in 1995, and nearly sold on a 1-to-1 basis with systems in the UK through its first Christmas season and well into 1996.
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Killer App / int_10b1dc7e	comment	While not a system seller like the other games listed, Soul Calibur II was one of the few Multi-Platform games to sell better on the GameCube than on any other platform, because its version's Guest Fighter was Link, which single-handedly became the selling point for that version of the game.
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Killer App / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Despite being released on both the GameCube and Wii, it was reported that three out of four Wii purchases sold alongside the game during its first week, received acclaim from audiences and critics, and went on to becoming the bestselling Zelda game (as well as one of the bestselling action-adventure games) until Breath of the Wild surpassed it more than a decade later.
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Killer App / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time, Regular Show and The Amazing World of Gumball are often credited for taking Cartoon Network out of their Audience-Alienating Era and making the network worth watching again.
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Killer App / int_11fccf8c	comment	In terms of first-party releases, God of War: Chains of Olympus sold more than 3.2 million units and was the most well-received critically.
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Killer App / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact is this for the entire gacha game genre. Before Genshin, the majority of gacha games were derogatorily mocked as a bunch of jpeg images on a slot machine that barely counted as a game; most of them only had a presence in the East with very few even garnering a blip on the global radar. Not Genshin however. The combination of it not only being free to play, but having an open-world system with triple-A levels of graphical fidelity, combat mechanics and music quickly made Genshin the biggest gacha game in terms of content, fanbase and revenue in history. Moreover, its (relatively) tame levels of fanservice and being accessible on multiple platforms further increased Genshin's demographic accessibility, allowing it to quickly achieve global status that other gacha games couldn't even come close to. Just to give some context on how massive Genshin is, it cost miHoYo USD $100 million to develop the game in a few years. It generated a billion dollars within six months. And, in 2022, it is estimated that the game has over 63 million active monthly users. The Genshin formula, or at the very least its aesthetic, has proven to be so popular, that several gacha games afterwards have copied it in some way, with other rivals like Tower of Fantasy trying to replicate its success but coming nowhere close. To say that this game is often compared to World of Warcraft in terms of its impact on its entire genre is not an exaggeration.
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Killer App / int_12ab1d9d	comment	Within Japan, Arc the Lad was one of the first games released to sell over one million units, with its sequel also becoming a million unit seller. However, the Arc the Lad trilogy was never localized outside of Japan despite demand from western audiences for SCEA to bring the series overseas, up until the Collection rerelease that came out for the PS1 two years after the PS2 was released, thus minimizing the impact Arc the Lad made on western audiences compared to other JRPGs.
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Killer App / int_15870207	comment	The first Mexican TV show to be broadcasted in other countries was El ChapulÃn Colorado. Its resounding success allowed for all kinds of Mexican shows to get screen time in foreign channels.
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Killer App / int_18883335	comment	Starfield was the one game that everyone had their eyes on after Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda Softworks went through, something Microsoft capitalized on almost immediately; starting from E3 2021, Starfield was featured in every big showcase from Microsoft up until its release on September 6, 2023. Even after the divisiveness of Halo Infinite and the disastrous launch of Redfall, Starfield still kept enough people interested to prevent them from completely writing off the Xbox Series X/S, and it paid off big-time come release; it resulted in a 1056% increase in sales of the console on Amazon ahead of the game's launch, easily becoming its biggest exclusive up until that point, and finally providing Microsoft with a game that could stand toe-to-toe with games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom or God of War RagnarÃ¶k in terms of sales numbers.
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Killer App / int_18ce5aab	comment	The original Samurai Shodown on the Neo Geo home console.
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Killer App / int_18e1d600	comment	Uncharted 4: A Thief's End was this as the next big title. It reviewed even better than Bloodborne and became the console's best-selling exclusive title, with over 8.7 million copies by the end of its release and over 16 million copies by 2019.
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Killer App / int_18fd74a7	comment	Super Mario Land became the first Mario platformer on a handheld system, further popularizing the Game Boy with 18 million units sold. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins followed suit three years later, selling 11 million units.
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Killer App / int_193f1efe	comment	Gmail and Google Maps were showcases for AJAX. No one had seen a web page that could be dynamically updated without reloading before. They showed it was possible to build web apps that worked as well as desktop apps did, heralding Web 2.0.
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Killer App / int_19d5167b	comment	Chappelle's Show; considered one of Comedy Central's best programs and popular enough to still be aired years after it ended (and despite its short run). Much like South Park, it also has its fair share of imitators.
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Killer App / int_1a56dc57	comment	Animal Crossing: Wild World was an even more popular sequel to the GameCube installment, retaining the crown as the best-selling game in the series for thirteen years.
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Killer App / int_1ab9ad1d	comment	Killzone 2, which is essentially the Halo 3 for the PS3.
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Killer App / int_1b99fb71	comment	TowerFall was the closest thing the Kickstarted Ouya console had to a killer app before Towerfall: Ascension came to PS4 and PC. A similar game, Duck Game, also followed TowerFall to other platforms.
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Killer App / int_1bdeba5a	comment	For most of the eighties and nineties, X-Men was the book to buy. It was popular to such an extent that a good chunk of the Marvel Universe was comprised mostly of X-Men books for a time.
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Killer App / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Monster Hunter is widely credited with keeping the PSP afloat in Japan, particularly Freedom Unite and Portable 3rd.
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Killer App / int_1d367084	comment	Team Fortress Classic was, for the longest time, THE online shooter. After that Counter-Strike took over the market. Both the old school and Global Offensive games still hold a large amount of players today.
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Killer App / int_1d49a34	comment	Upon the Xbox 360's release, the most purchased title was Call of Duty 2 (with a port from the PC version, in contrast to the watered-down ones the previous generation got), with Perfect Dark Zero and Condemned: Criminal Origins also being launch exclusives that sold significantly well. Then in the next two years there was Gears of War and BioShock (the latter, like Call of Duty, also available on PC upon release). Cliff Bleszinski revealed that he and Epic Games convinced Microsoft to incur a billion dollar loss to upgrade the 360's capability so it could run Gears. And to top it all off, Halo 3 was the most anticipated game for the Xbox 360 at the time, becoming the bestselling game of the year and the bestselling game in its series, rounding off the trilogy that began on the original Xbox.
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Killer App / int_1dedf61a	comment	Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Home Movies, and Harvey Birdman during the block's early days.
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Killer App / int_1e00ee62	comment	Ring Fit Adventure ended up being a surprise Sleeper Hit for the Nintendo Switch, only being announced one month prior to release and still being an exercise game after the casual game craze of the Wii had died out - yet it managed to sell over 15 million units across its lifespan and ended up appealed to both dedicated gaming audiences for its Role-Playing Game mechanics and to the same casual audience that was responsible for the massive success of Wii Fit a decade prior.
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Killer App / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, despite also seeing release on the Wii U. Nintendo reported at the end of the launch month that they'd sold more copies of Zelda for Switch than they did actual Switches — there were significant amount of people who had bought Breath of the Wild for a Switch they didn't yet own. After a year, the combined sales of the Switch and Wii U versions have made Breath of the Wild the best-selling game in the franchise, surpassing Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess by a wide margin. As of June 2023, the Switch version sold over 30 million copies.
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Killer App / int_22e5872a	comment	The Donkey Kong Country series was massively successful, and allowed the SNES to retain popularity and relevance into the 32-bit era, while Sega stumbled with the Sega CD, 32X and Sega Saturn confusion. After years of Sega's aggressive marketing against the SNES, Donkey Kong Country shocked everyone by achieving pre-rendered 3D models on a 16-bit console, and received much acclaim for its gameplay, music, and visuals, leading it to sell a whopping 9.3 million units on the SNES and revitalizing Donkey Kong after the series was overshadowed by Mario for nearly a decade.
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Killer App / int_2354d12c	comment	In Japan, the first three games in the Dragon Quest series served as this, with sales of all three games combined averaging to around 10 million copies sold.
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Killer App / int_240ae60b	comment	Planet Earth, one of the first nature documentaries entirely shot in HD and one of the first television series to take advantage of the new format. Unsurprisingly with all the Scenery Porn it contained it quickly became a chart-topper back in the early days of the format, and some stores even bundled a copy of the Planet Earth box set in with new Blu-Ray players.
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Killer App / int_27b84429	comment	The Last of Us has sold 6 million in less than a year, making it the 2nd best-selling exclusive behind Gran Turismo 5, and 3rd best-selling PS3 game overall. It is almost unanimously seen as the defining game of the PS3, if not the entire seventh generation. Its Updated Re Release on PS4 is this too, for those who didn't play it on PS3 but bought a PS4.
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Killer App / int_289f3039	comment	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is not only the most successful installment in the Super Smash Bros. series, but also the fastest-selling Nintendo game yet for its time, moving over 12 million units in its first month (Pokemon Sword and Shield dethroned it). For comparison, the lifetime sales of the previous best-selling Smash title (Brawl) is 13.29 million. By its first year in the market, it eventually became the best-selling fighting game in history, and dethroned Melee as the Smash game for tournament play in the Fighting Game Community. By June 2023, it has sold 31.77 million copies.
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Killer App / int_28a11000	comment	Horizon Forbidden West ended being a milder example. While it was favorably received by audiences and critics, and sold a fairly decent amount of units, it ended up being overshadowed by the much-anticipated Elden Ring, which released a week after Forbidden West came out and ended up selling extremely well, while reviewing even better with critics and audiences.
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Killer App / int_2930d0c4	comment	Windows XP only really started to die off in favour of Windows 7 when Battlefield 3 was announced to be Windows 7/Vista exclusive. Call of Duty: Black Ops II making the same announcement a year later likely helped as well.
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Killer App / int_295048d5	comment	Bloodborne. After 16 months since the console released, this is the first non-Nintendo game from the Eighth Generation to be acclaimed by both critics and players. Driveclub is this to a lesser degree in the UK, becoming the best-selling exclusive of 2014. However, the game was bundled on a relatively cheap Black Friday bundle.
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Killer App / int_2a38f4f7	comment	Drunk History; while not quite to the same extent as some of the other shows, it's still very popular and gets regular airtime, unlike some of the network's other current original programming. Some of its segments have gone memetic too.
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Killer App / int_2a43dd91	comment	The Uncharted series has been this, but it has never been more apparent than with Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, which sold 3.8 million copies during the first day of release, something rarely heard of for console exclusive games.
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Killer App / int_2a893b9b	comment	Counter-Strike was, ironically, both the killer app for the early 2000's golden age of 'real world' LAN Gaming cafes/centres, as well as the reason they crashed in popularity from 2004 onwards, when the Source remake became the killer app for Steam and home-based online multiplayer.
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Killer App / int_2ba1d958	comment	What The Matrix was to DVDs, Dire Straits' album Brothers in Arms was to CDs, as it was the first album to sell over a million copies in the format and the first to outsell the LP version. The album's insanely high sound quality — which, like The Nightfly, is credited to a mix of its digital recording & mixing and frontman Mark Knopfler's audiophilia — showed off what those shiny little discs could do.
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Killer App / int_2bbd9eed	comment	Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Bluepoint Games' remake of Demon's Souls were billed by Sony as as the marquee titles for the platform's launch, the former being a spinoff of Insomniac's highly popular Spider-Man (PS4), while the latter was a complete remake of a game locked to the PS3. Though Miles Morales was also released on the PS4, it was marketed for its PS5-specific features. Both titles were very well-received.
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Killer App / int_2c49204d	comment	When Lunar: The Silver Star was released in Japan, it sold almost as many copies as the Sega CD. That and Sonic the Hedgehog CD were, if not killer apps, the nearest thing the Sega CD/Mega CD had.
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Killer App / int_2c6aea6e	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_2c6aea6e	comment	Returnal was a bright spot in what was otherwise considered to be a slow first year for the PlayStation 5, winning many accolades and becoming a Sleeper Hit that many people point to as being the first game to properly show what the PS5 is capable of. It also doesn't hurt that it's not on PS4, thus making it a more appealing purchase than multiplatform games.
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Killer App / int_2d49c8f1	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_2d49c8f1	comment	Its position has been significantly eroded by King, maker of Candy Crush Saga among others (which, in the minds of many, has displaced Bejeweled as the name most synonymous with the Match 3 genre). It became a Cash-Cow Franchise due to its Allegedly Free Game business model, and one of the main killer apps for Facebook and casual gaming on smartphones.
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Killer App / int_2dc12aeb	comment	While NetHack is a multi-platform game, just about any serious Unix or Linux user has a copy installed, as it's one of the few decent games available.
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Killer App / int_30065ab	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_30065ab	comment	Cuphead became a critical and commercial darling upon release, being praised for its Nintendo Hard difficulty that brought to mind old school shoot 'em ups like Contra and Metal Slug, and coupled with an aesthetic inspired by the golden age of animation, made it one of the most unique indie titles to be released in recent years, as well as one of the most unique Xbox One games.
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Killer App / int_30a5ebfd	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_30a5ebfd	comment	For the American monthly Shonen Jump magazine that ran throughout the 2000s, Naruto was the big seller. Before Naruto's grow in popularity, it was Yu-Gi-Oh! that sold copies, especially issues that came with promo cards.
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Killer App / int_33dd1d90	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source were responsible for Steam's success today, and the popularity of digital distribution as a whole, though that might have something to do with the games requiring Steam to play.
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Killer App / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Aqua Teen Hunger Force: A flagship series, and a successful Long Runner. When people talk about the general weirdness of the programming block, this show's usually the first thing they think of, and it's more or less the quintessential Adult Swim show.
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Killer App / int_3544ad11	comment	House of Cards revolutionized Netflix as producing original programming with A-list actors like Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, and dropping an entire season's worth of material at once, letting its audience decide when to watch. It made headlines to realize that in terms of numbers it was technically the most watched series in the world. It paved the way for shows on regular TV to go to Netflix and other online streaming sites, including Arrested Development, The Clone Wars and Community. And then came a second killer app in Orange Is the New Black.
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Killer App / int_366a284d	comment	One of the first major killer apps for the magazine was Fist of the North Star.
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Killer App / int_37f2013c	comment	Die Hard Arcade, initially known as Dynamite Cop, was acclaimed for being a near-perfect port of the original arcade version on the Saturn, and it helped that the western version of the game made use of the Die Hard license to make it more marketable to audiences.
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Killer App / int_3805ad4f	comment	Splinter Cell was a notable exclusive from Ubisoft, and proved to be a massive seller for the Xbox, positioning itself as the Xbox's answer to the PlayStation-exclusive Metal Gear series, and its second sequel, Chaos Theory, is widely considered to be one of the best stealth-action games. While the series did find its way on the PS2 and GameCube, those versions were substantially lacking compared to what the Xbox had, cementing it as the place to be for Splinter Cell.
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Killer App / int_3a9cf1cc	comment	Shenmue had generated considerable hype for the console, and is widely considered the best game on it, but its huge budget eventually led to it becoming a financial failure despite solid sales.
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Killer App / int_3af9a855	comment	Dragon Ball as well, during it's original run. So much so that sales actually went down for a while after it ended.
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Killer App / int_3b7abee2	comment	In the same vein as Doom, Half-Life and its sequels pushed the success of PC games even further, with their slick design and fantastic presentation bridging the gap between "casual" gamers raised on mascot platformers and Japanese RPGs and "hardcore" gaming formats. It was, after all, the computer equivalent to GoldenEye (1997) in shifting the FPS scene from "Doom clones" to an actual genre. Counter-Strike was, ironically, both the killer app for the early 2000's golden age of 'real world' LAN Gaming cafes/centres, as well as the reason they crashed in popularity from 2004 onwards, when the Source remake became the killer app for Steam and home-based online multiplayer. Valve did it again with Team Fortress 2 in 2007, which is, to this very day, their most successful game of all time, and was tied with DOTA 2 (also by Valve) as the most popular game on Steam until it was finally overtaken by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds a decade later.
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Killer App / int_3b8b374	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_3b8b374	comment	The biggest third-party games for the Wii were Just Dance and LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, with the first two Just Dance games being outright exclusives for the Wii and 3 being the bestselling third-party Wii games of all time, while a third of Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga 's overall sales from the Wii, averaging out to around 5.5 million units on that platform alone out of the 15 million units sold across all platforms. Just Dance was so popular on the Wii, that it was regularly released for the platform until 2019, well after the seventh generation had concluded.
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Killer App / int_3c182551	comment	d3, on the other hand, looked at Bejeweled and decided it would be a good RPG combat mechanic with Puzzle Quest, which led to innumerable copycat game apps on iOS and Android.
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Killer App / int_3caeeb6f	comment	SimCity's SNES port is almost unanimously considered to be superior to the original PC game, featuring better graphics, an advisor (Dr. Wright, who is based off of Sim Series creator Will Wright), background music, reward buildings, and even featuring appearances from Nintendo characters like Mario and Bowser. The game was also present in many SNES advertisements and commercials from early in its lifecycle, and sold around two million units overall.
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Killer App / int_3df37b17	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_3df37b17	comment	The resurgence of vinyl's mainstream popularity was spearheaded by Beck's Guero (2005) and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium (2006), both of which were intentionally mastered much better on vinyl than they were on digital formats. Many bought turntables just to play them. Another killer app of the vinyl revival is, you guessed it, a reissue of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.
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Killer App / int_3e5c6c5a	comment	Super Mario 64 was one of only two launch titles for the system and stands as one of the first 3D games to avoid the kind of poorly-done Video Game 3D Leap that other 2D franchises struggled with at the time. The game remains as one of the most influential in its genre and is the most popular game played in the speedrunning community.
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Killer App / int_3e8c09b9	comment	The Attack on Titan anime was one for Crunchyroll.
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Killer App / int_3eeae17a	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_3eeae17a	comment	The home port of Xevious is considered to be the first such game for the Famicom, boosting sales of the system to almost 2 million. Aside from that, Galaxian, Pac-Man, Mappy, and The Tower of Druaga's arcade-perfect ports on the Famicom/NES also spurred sales of the console, making Namco one of the console's biggest supporters.
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Killer App / int_3f3abe9	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty has become this for [adult swim], having reached a level of mainstream success and notoriety in three seasons that most of their other shows haven't. The majority of programming on the block is aimed towards a more niche audience. Robot Chicken is another one. It's a Long Runner that's been around for at least a decade with no end in sight, and also a Cash-Cow Franchise for the network and it's creators. The show's long-lasting appeal may stem partly from its clever satirizing of every topic under the sun, including properties with large fan bases themselves, (like Star Wars, DC Comics, The Walking Dead, etc.), as well as it's gorgeous stop-motion animation. The Boondocks was another one, though it was more controversial than the other examples. Aqua Teen Hunger Force: A flagship series, and a successful Long Runner. When people talk about the general weirdness of the programming block, this show's usually the first thing they think of, and it's more or less the quintessential Adult Swim show. Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Home Movies, and Harvey Birdman during the block's early days. Syndicated reruns of FOX cartoons like Family Guy and (when they still had the rights to it), Futurama, which tend to get high ratings. Cowboy Bebop, Inuyasha, and both versions of Fullmetal Alchemist were this for the anime block. Dragon Ball Super and My Hero Academia were this for the Toonami block with the former regularly beating Family Guy in the 18-49 demographic and the latter frequently coming close to Super.
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Killer App / int_42cc8840	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_42cc8840	comment	For Disney Channel, the absolutely monster double whammy successes of High School Musical and Hannah Montana that made the mouse-branded television station into the behemoth it is now.
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Killer App / int_43536f02	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_43536f02	comment	Super Breakout for the Atari 5200; Galaga for the Atari 7800.
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Killer App / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop, Inuyasha, and both versions of Fullmetal Alchemist were this for the anime block.
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Killer App / int_43f52aa9	comment	The Elder Scrolls continued to be a bestseller on Xbox platforms with Oblivion, which was a timed exclusive for the Xbox 360, and Skyrim, which sold 13 million units on the Xbox 360, the most ever out of all the consoles its been released on. Skyrim was even sold with Xbox 360 consoles and Forza Motorsport in a holiday bundle, despite being a third-party release.
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Killer App / int_4617a9f2	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children and The Simpsons were the killer apps that let the Fox TV network break into the Big-Three-Plus-PBS channel roster that had dominated American broadcast television for decades, paving the way for The CW and the countless specialty-networks that would proliferate with the rise of cable. COPS and America's Most Wanted also significantly increased the fledgling network's profile during the tail end of the 1980s into the early 1990s, and effectively served as the killer apps that respectively drove reality television and true crime programming into popularity in subsequent years.
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Killer App / int_476bc61d	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_476bc61d	comment	Kid Icarus: Uprising, while selling much less than the others like Awakening, was one of the most popular games of the early 3DS library and was credited by Nintendo as one of the reasons for their increased profits alongside Awakening, successfully revitalizing interest in the Kid Icarus franchise alongside Pit's appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
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Killer App / int_49a84be6	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_49a84be6	comment	The remake of Final Fantasy III wasn't a system killer app, but denoted the start of major third-party support for a gaming system the rest of the industry was skeptical of. Similarly, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days was another third-party exclusive from a major franchise that gave the DS more focus from core gaming audiences.
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Killer App / int_49a87cb3	comment	The buzziest game for the system was Final Fantasy VII, with SquareSoft's decision to develop it for the PlayStation over the N64 playing a huge role in Sony's victory over Nintendo during the 32/64-bit era. Upon release, it became the best-selling PlayStation game (until it was surpassed by Gran Turismo) and increased the PlayStation's install base substantially, helping it beat the N64 worldwide as well as the Sega Saturn in Japan (where the Saturn was leading up until then).
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Killer App / int_49a88442	comment	With subscription-based MMORPGs becoming a dying breed, the only two viable games left were WoW and Final Fantasy XIV, which took its spot over time.
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Killer App / int_49a885c8	comment	Final Fantasy XVI ended up becoming the straightest example of this for the PlayStation 5 as of its release in June of 2023. While it was a timed exclusive, it only launched on the PS5 as opposed to Deathloop launching on PC or God of War: Ragnarok launching on PS4, and unlike Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart or Returnal, it's part of a brand that is incredibly recognizable to audiences outside of the PS5 ecosystem. For these reasons and more, Final Fantasy XVI ended up becoming the bestselling PS5 exclusive up until that point, and spurred many who hadn't bought a PS5 up until that point to do so.
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Killer App / int_4b434423	comment	PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield broke a new sales record for the Switch, with 6 million copies sold worldwide on its opening weekend. Unsurprising as PokÃ©mon is always a system seller for Nintendo, though this is the first time it did so with a home console (or at least a portable that can function as one). The Switch saw a significant sales jump upon Sword and Shield's release too, suggesting that many people bought a Switch just for it. It quickly dethroned Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as the fastest-selling Nintendo game ever. As of June 2023, it has become the second-best selling game in the series at 25.92 million copies.
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Killer App / int_4e9f355	comment	The PSP also rode on Crisis Core, the Dissidia Final Fantasy games and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, all of which are considered to be some of the best games on the system.
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Killer App / int_4f6709cf	comment	Spider-Man (PS4) picked up the slack later in the year, driving console sales and even managing to outsell God of War. This only got better when Sony released a $200 Black Friday Bundle that included a PS4 and a copy of the game, boosting sales of both and helping push the console to over 90 million total sales during the 2018 holiday season.
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Killer App / int_4f89d268	comment	PokÃ©mon GO is cited as the cause of a sudden spike in smartphone sales in several countries. Additionally, it is also often cited as the main reason "power banks" (external battery packs) are now selling like hotcakes.
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Killer App / int_507dfb6a	comment	There's also EarthBound (1994) being released for the Wii U's Virtual Console, which became one of the top downloaded titles for the service. Not bad for a game that was an Acclaimed Flop when it first came out. EarthBound Beginnings was also received with similar praise, and quickly raised to the top of the downloads charts. Not bad for a game that wasn't released outside Japan before then.
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Killer App / int_51d8e360	comment	This trope is mostly inverted when it comes to Japan, as they have not taken to either system much like its competition. So far, the closest the 360 has to a killer app there is a hit game that boosts sales for a week or so then they fall back to just selling a few thousand a week until the next hit game. These "boost" games include Blue Dragon (Akira Toriyama's involvement helped, too), Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, Tales of Vesperia (which is the best-selling 360 game in Japan and was even sold with 360s for a while, so it was a Fanboy issue when it was later ported to the PS3) and Star Ocean: The Last Hope.
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Killer App / int_51f345f6	comment	The Genesis port of Strider (Arcade) was also one of the system's earlier killer apps. In addition, the game holds the distinction of being the first game to be released on an 8-megabit cartridge.
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Killer App / int_53d09305	comment	Space Invaders was a major system mover for the Atari 2600, quadrupling its sales. This is the first widely agreed example of a Killer App, thus making it the Trope Codifier.
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Killer App / int_5425ce75	comment	The Grand Theft Auto series of games had been killer apps for the PlayStation from Grand Theft Auto III onwards (especially San Andreas, which was lauded for its huge scale of territory and gameplay variety, as in you get much more to do than in previous games)note Rockstar did release Xbox and PC versions, but they came later until Microsoft pulled a major coup and convinced Rockstar to make Grand Theft Auto IV a multi-platform release on day one.
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Killer App / int_554058cf	comment	Nintendo pushed Mario Kart 8 as this, to an almost aggressive extent. In addition to releasing a premium Wii U bundle in many regions note The North American bundle included the game, a complete Wii U Deluxe system, a Mario-themed Wii Remote Plus and Wii Wheel; Europe got a similar bundle plus two special Mario and Luigi-themed bundles that included some additional goodies such as a strategy guide, they also had a program where every copy that had been purchased in the two months after the game's release —including those that came in the bundle— could be registered on Club Nintendonote (their consumer loyalty program prior to My Nintendo) and redeemed for one free Wii U game of your choice. North America had 4 options to choose fromnote New Super Mario Bros. U, Wii Party U, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, and Pikmin 3, while Europe and Australia got 10note The four aforementioned games plus The Wonderful 101, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Sonic Lost World, Game & Wario, Nintendo Land, and Mario and Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. As a result, Mario Kart 8 sold 1.2 million copies in its first weekend alone and boosted the console's sales in every region. Wii U sales in Europe, for example, rose by 666 percent. The game would go on to be the best-selling game on the system, with a 3:5 attach rate.
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Killer App / int_559a396b	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_559a396b	comment	New Super Mario Bros. U launched with the Wii U and is the second best-selling game on the system, but the release of New Super Mario Bros. 2 just months earlier is considered to have diminished its impact. In that respect, the following year's Super Mario 3D World is considered the first real system-seller.
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Killer App / int_55db7465	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_55db7465	comment	Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo were clearly meant to invoke this, due to Sony nabbing both of them as timed exclusives for the PS5. However, it was only a few months after that announcement in which Microsoft announced their acquisition of Bethesda, leading many to choose to wait for their Xbox ports instead, and when both of them did release, they weren't as acclaimed as Returnal or Rift Apart.
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Killer App / int_57ad0c07	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_57ad0c07	comment	Not only is Resident Evil is the progenitor of the Survival Horror genre, but Resident Evil 4 also helped popularize the Third-Person Shooter genre alongside Gears of War from the following year.
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Resident Evil (Franchise)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_57ad0c07
Killer App / int_59151283	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear was this for the Stealth-Based Game genre, and remains top dog to this day, even after competitors like Splinter Cell, Syphon Filter, Tenchu, and Assassin's Creed came along.
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Killer App / int_591aa39f	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_591aa39f	comment	Metal Slug, especially 3.
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Metal Slug (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_591aa39f
Killer App / int_5921531b	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4: The Golden is this for the Vita in Japan, which was lagging behind. It sold 137 thousand copies along with 34 thousand units. This later proved true for the Western market as well.
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Persona 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_5921531b
Killer App / int_5921531c	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5 was this to a lesser extent, as was its Updated Re-release and Final Fantasy VII Remake; the latter two releasing during the console's final year as Sony's main platform.
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Killer App / int_5921531c	featureConfidence	1.0
Persona 5 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_5921531c
Killer App / int_59a835fb	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_59a835fb	comment	Sonic Adventure 2: Battle was the first Sonic title to be released on a Nintendo platform, and was responsible for causing a Newbie Boom of Nintendo-loyalists that were curious to see what the hype about the hedgehog was all about. It also helps that Battle is more or less considered to be the definitive version of the game, coming with extra content not available on the original Dreamcast version.
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Killer App / int_5a2333ef	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_5a2333ef	comment	LittleBigPlanet's Level Editor helped set it apart from other side-scrolling platformers, and acted as a major reason to get a PS3. After the PSN blackout of 2011, it was offered to PSN subscribers as a free game as part of Sony's "Welcome Back" program to compensate users.
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Killer App / int_5b6175ca	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_5b6175ca	comment	Fortnite is the biggest battle royale game, period. Its immense popularity with younger kids gave it a foothold on the market that no other BR game was able to top. For the older audience, though, it's Player Unknowns Battlegrounds in China, and Apex Legends for everywhere else.
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Killer App / int_5e91c7d	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_5e91c7d	comment	Resident Evil 4 was intended to be this, as it was released as part of the "Capcom 5": a deal to bring five new, exclusive games to the GameCube to support the platform. Unfortunately, one of them (Dead Phoenix) was never released, three of them (Resident Evil 4, Viewtiful Joe, Killer7) were eventually ported to the PlayStation 2, and the only game to remain a GameCube exclusive (P.N.03) didn't sell many copies and was critically panned. Resident Evil 4 was a big seller on the GameCube, but didn't do much on its own to help its market share.
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Killer App / int_61de95d6	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_61de95d6	comment	Due to the decline in the popularity of flight/space simulators, alongside Freelancer's controversial decision to support keyboard and mouse at the total expense of joysticks, the joystick largely fell out of favor amongst PC gamers — until the duo of Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen releasing at roughly the same time not only reignited the space simulator genre and PC gaming in general, but surged a newfound demand for HOTAS setups generally reserved for only the most hardcore Falcon BMS and Digital Combat Simulator players. To top that off, Star Citizen runs on the same engine as the aforementioned Crysis, but highly upgraded!This even escalated to a new market for dual-stick setups with a left stick in place of the throttle as a strafing control (remember that both games support six degrees of freedom), and in Elite's case, Virtual Reality support. Indeed, Elite: Dangerous is one of the earliest killer apps for the Oculus Rift, even before the Touch controllers were released!
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Killer App / int_626731f6	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_626731f6	comment	When the NES first launched it came with R.O.B., your Robotic Operating Buddy. R.O.B. could play only two games, both of them considered mediocre at best, and the R.O.B. itself only seemed to function half the time.note And when R.O.B. did function, it moved so slowly that you were better off doing R.O.B.'s controller inputs yourself. However, it was key in making the system seem less like a "videogame console" (which was a dirty word at the time following the video game crash). Essentially, it was a fake Killer App: something that seemed like the must-own technology of the future that handily snuck the far more important hardware into homes.
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Killer App / int_62bf541	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_62bf541	comment	The biggest and most famous NES game bar none is Super Mario Bros., which is often credited with saving the North American video game industry following the The Great Video Game Crash of 1983. Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 followed suit a few years later, and this trilogy entered the Top 4 list of best-selling games for the system. For the Famicom Disk System, the best-selling software was Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
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Killer App / int_631805af	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_631805af	comment	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was the biggest killer app for the system, and what ended most of the hate for the system. What's most notable is that Snake's appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, specifically his own stage, has a massive amount of Foreshadowing for this game. Foreshadowing on the killer app of a direct competitor.
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Killer App / int_65c87783	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_65c87783	comment	Similar to the Nintendo DS, much of the Wii's success is the result of more causal games. The "Wii" franchise of games (started by the pack-in launch title Wii Sports) is the 5th best-selling video game franchise of all-time at 201.8 million copies sold between the various Sports, Play, Fit titles.
Killer App / int_65c87783	featureApplicability	1.0
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Killer App / int_6760b31e	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_6760b31e	comment	NiGHTS into Dreamsâ€¦ served as a primary reason to buy a Sega Saturn. Other games for the system with massive popularity include Virtua Fighter and Saturn Bomberman (often referred to by reviewers as the best game in its series).
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Killer App / int_6a307d4	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_6a307d4	comment	Titanfall was the game that kept the Xbox One from dying on the vine in its first year, being a desired "exclusive" for the consolenote in the sense that it didn't come out for PS4, at least 'til Halo 5: Guardians was released. Oddly, it wasn't a blockbuster, just a game that kept interest alive in the then-controversial system. Respawn Interactivenote not Electronic Arts as many would like to point out however, treated it like it was a killer app and foolishly had Titanfall 2 compete with Call of Duty and Battlefield, resulting in poor sales, despite being available for the PlayStation 4 as well as the Xbox One and PC.
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Killer App / int_6adaf2f	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_6adaf2f	comment	The Genesis port of Mortal Kombat (1992) didn't look as good as the SNES port and was missing a lot of the sound. What it did have was all the famous blood, gore, and bone-crunching intensity that hooked players in the arcade and was missing from the sanitized SNES port.note The full violence in the Genesis game did require a button combination at the menu screen — ABACABB — but it was quickly discovered, shared, and relatively a non-issue The Genesis port outsold the SNES version over three-to-one, and coupled with the continued popularity of Sonic and the system's sports games, gave Sega a lead in the market share by 1993. Nintendo was so taken aback by the success disparity of the Mortal Kombat ports that they allowed Acclaim to go against their censorship policies and release Mortal Kombat II fully uncensored, requiring only a content warning label on the box (as it pre-dated the ESRB by a couple of months).
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Mortal Kombat (1992) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_6adaf2f
Killer App / int_6bf2d08	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_6bf2d08	comment	Super Mario Maker sold 1 million copies in its first two weeks of availability, thanks to months of hype and promotion.
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Super Mario Maker (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_6bf2d08
Killer App / int_6c8e383c	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_6c8e383c	comment	The games that proved the Xbox could do something other than FPS were Knights of the Old Republic, which spurred sales off the console close to Halo levels, Fable, Microsoft's own exclusive RPG series headed by Peter Molyneux, and Morrowind, which was one of the first WRPGs on the system, and whose success on the Xbox is widely credited as being the Breakthrough Hit of Bethesda, as well as the game that made The Elder Scrolls a household name.
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Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_6c8e383c
Killer App / int_6e63b25c	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_6e63b25c	comment	Doom. The biggest Killer App in all of PC gaming history, with over 4 million copies sold. Before Doom, PC games were a niche hobby, a small subset that was to consolenote or, to put it in more periodic terms, "Atari/Nintendo/Sega" players what video games were to the general populace. Doom made PC gaming mainstream, and let the world know that those computers they were using for their essays and spread sheets could do something that not just matched, but even surpassed what those boxes next to their TVs could do. To call it the Super Mario Bros. of PC gaming is an understatement; it singlehandedly made the PC the new Nintendo, and only after its success can you watch a movie or TV show and see anybody playing video games on their computers as opposed to sitting by the television playing on a console. Even to this very day, it's the first (and often only) title that comes to non-gamers' minds when they think of PC games, with Call of Duty only recently supplanting this honor. Doom was indirectly the Trope Maker for Windows as a serious gaming platform. Prior to Windows 95, you were limited to Solitaire and Minesweeper and the occasional more advanced title like Myst. And then Bill Gates read the result of a study that found that Doom was installed on more computers in the world than Windows was. Intent on remedying this, Bill made damn sure that Windows 95 would have its own natively compatible version of Doom.
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Killer App / int_6f76d71a	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_6f76d71a	comment	The Sims can be credited with kicking off the resurgence of casual gaming of the 2000s (along with internet games).
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Killer App / int_702a974	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_702a974	comment	Shadow of the Colossus is another game that can fit the category, with its ability to push the capabilities of the PS2 far enough for the sake of Scenery Porn.
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Killer App / int_7414f486	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_7414f486	comment	The first entry in the Super Smash Bros. series was both this and a Sleeper Hit, with the title's success surprising many executives within the company.
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Killer App / int_7529056	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_7529056	comment	Super Mario World, was packaged with most SNES units. It would later become the most modded game of all time as that community began to grow. Super Mario All-Stars was released three years later, being a updated compilation of the NES Mario gamesnote (including the first international release of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2) that proved the viability of the Updated Re-release concept, and would also become popular with modders, though not to the extent of World.
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Super Mario World (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_7529056
Killer App / int_755b343f	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_755b343f	comment	The Halo franchise cemented the Xbox as "the FPS console", leading to the FPS "arms race" between Microsoft and Sony that lasted through The Noughties. Halo: Combat Evolved, a launch title for the Xbox, single-handedly saved Microsoft from being a mere footnote in the Console Wars. Later on, Halo 2 went on to become a killer app for the Xbox Live multiplayer service in 2004.
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Halo (Franchise)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_755b343f
Killer App / int_755d59cb	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_755d59cb	comment	God of War RagnarÃ¶k saw a release on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, but it became a much more straight example than Forbidden West was - it sold 5.1 million units during its launch weekend and received universal acclaim from critics and audiences, as well as many awards from industry shows (rivaling Elden Ring in that regard), and easily became Sony's biggest game for 2022, thanks to Forbidden West being overshadowed by Elden Ring and Gran Turismo 7 being controversial for its microtransactions.
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Killer App / int_76686539	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_76686539	comment	Mass Effect, published by Microsoft and developed by BioWare, was released as an exclusive for the Xbox 360, and received near-universal adoration for its scale, both in terms of exploration and storytelling, and is regarded as a landmark in the WRPG genre, completing BioWare's rise to superstardom that began with Knights of the Old Republic, and the game remained exclusive for years even after BioWare was acquired by Electronic Arts.
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Killer App / int_7681848b	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_7681848b	comment	Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, being the latest installment in a long-running and beloved franchise that returns to the series' main continuity after the divisive 2016 re-imagining, and unlike Miles Morales, it was exclusive to the PS5. It ended up being a critical and commercial success, further justifying the PS5 after only having Returnal and Demon's Souls.
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Killer App / int_780bfe03	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_780bfe03	comment	Originally, Halo Infinite was meant to be the system's marquee launch title, but its delay after the Tainted by the Preview reaction it got from audiences in response to the first footage of gameplay shown otherwise dampened excitement in the system, though not entirely. Instead, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, which had console exclusivity in the west for the Series X\|S, ended up making up for some of the traction lost.
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Killer App / int_782a1f0	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_782a1f0	comment	Phantasy Star Online was successful enough that the Dreamcast version's servers were kept up for years and years after the Dreamcast was discontinued, whereas it was originally meant to last for two or three months. Years later, it would even receive a sequel in the form of Phantasy Star Online 2, albeit multiplatform, since this was years after Sega left the hardware business.
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Killer App / int_792239e5	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_792239e5	comment	Tales of Symphonia was one of the few JRPGs of its generation to not prioritize the PS2, rather instead being released with the GameCube in mindnote The PS2 version was a Japan exclusive and released after the GameCube version. It sold around one million copies on the GameCube as a result, and is considered to be where the series first broke through in the west to become one of the more popular JRPG franchises on the market.
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Killer App / int_7d3d9346	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_7d3d9346	comment	Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories were the two biggest sellers on the system, and were exclusives for a while, until they got ported to the PS2
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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_7d3d9346
Killer App / int_7eceb06d	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_7eceb06d	comment	Fable II completed the trifecta of system-selling Western RPG games for the Xbox 360 that was started by the aforementioned Oblivion and continued with Mass Effect. Considered to be a great improvement over the original Xbox game, Fable II was the bestselling game on the console during the week of its release, and is still considered to be one of the standout role-playing games on the system overall.
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Fable II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_7eceb06d
Killer App / int_7fb486bc	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_7fb486bc	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Kirby's Dream Land, and Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 managed to carry the Game Boy while the SNES was making headway in the home console space, with Kirby becoming one of Nintendo's mainstay franchises and Wario Land being successful enough to give Wario his own spinoff series.
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Killer App / int_80ddf5c1	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_80ddf5c1	comment	The PS2 had so many killer apps lined up that God of War doesn't make this list simply because it just flat-out wasn't needed.
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Killer App / int_82eb2b34	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_82eb2b34	comment	The system's surprise success was pushed by more casual games such as Nintendogs and Brain Age just as much as it was by new entries in established Killer App franchises (New Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart DS, and two generations of PokÃ©mon). PokÃ©mon Black and White became the fastest-selling games for the platform as well, despite coming out towards the end of the system's life.
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Killer App / int_853d51b9	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_853d51b9	comment	Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 was initially announced be released on both the Xbox Series X\|S and the Xbox One in terms of consoles, but it was later announced to be headed to the Series X\|S as a console exclusive, even though it was already available on PC beforehand.
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Killer App / int_858da35d	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_858da35d	comment	The Panzer Dragoon series are killer apps for the Saturn, despite the fact that the first was the only one that sold well. Panzer Dragoon Saga in particular was created as an answer to Squaresoft's killer app for the PlayStation, Final Fantasy VII.
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Killer App / int_8607fd53	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_8607fd53	comment	Gravity Rush became this for the Vita as it was offered for free for Playstation Plus members for the better part of two years since its launch release.
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Killer App / int_87056d17	comment	Sonic Adventure was a big seller, being the first fully 3D Sonic game. Tragically, its sequel was released too late into the console's short run, but was nonetheless considered an excellent Swan Song for the Dreamcast. Its rerelease, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle could be considered this for the GameCube, being the first Sonic title to release on a Nintendo platform.
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Killer App / int_8705a383	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_8705a383	comment	Star Wars Episode I: Racer was able to avoid the stigma of licensed games to such an extent that a bundle of the N64 with a copy of Racer included started to circulate not long after release.
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Killer App / int_879573fa	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_879573fa	comment	The 2013 reboot of Killer Instinct is probably the Xbox One's best-remembered launch title, still boasting a fairly active competitive scene years later, and receiving three seasons of post-launch support.
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Killer App / int_8898094b	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_8898094b	comment	IGN once posed the question of whether or not Soul Sacrifice was the Vita's killer app despite Sony never claiming it to be.
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Killer App / int_8b7b9cd5	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	Star Wars is widely acknowledged to be the killer app for VHS.
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Killer App / int_8c8e061e	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_8c8e061e	comment	Astro Bot Rescue Mission and Blood & Truth are this to Sony's VR headset. Releasing in 2018 and 2019 respectively, the former is Sony's highest-rated VR title as of 2020, and the latter was heavily praised for its blockbuster-like quality. Iron Man VR is this to a lesser extent.
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Killer App / int_8d62323c	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_8d62323c	comment	The Vita ports of the Danganronpa series in the West, due to the PSP versions being a case of No Export for You.
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Killer App / int_8da0ea80	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_8da0ea80	comment	PokÃ©mon Red and Blue debuted late in the system's lifespan, single-handedly revitalizing sales of the handheld. The game's fast rise to success in North America also helped sales of the Game Boy Color, which would be released a few months after Red and Blue hit shelves there in time for Christmas 1998.
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Killer App / int_8df5521b	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_8df5521b	comment	The original Superman stories were this to comic books in general, turning the medium from 5 cent newspaper strip compilations into an independent and profitable storytelling format.
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Killer App / int_8ec33a87	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_8ec33a87	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2 sold less than other titles, similar to Kid Icarus: Uprising on the 3DS, but it managed to surpass one million units in just one month, and was released within the first year of the Switch's life, allowing for it to fill a void for JRPG games that had yet to be filled by other titles at the time. It ended up becoming the bestselling game made by Monolith Soft, elevating the Xeno series from being acclaimed flops to being one of Nintendo's and Monolith's most valued franchises, achieving 2.7 million sales by the end of June 2023. Notably, the Torna DLC received a physical release, a rare occurrence for a Nintendo game, and a remake of the first game was announced in 2019 for a release the following year, with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 following up on the successes of 2 and Definitive Edition in 2022 by surpassing the amount of units sold in either game's launch month.
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Killer App / int_9080395d	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9080395d	comment	Before sex, lies, and videotape film festivals were more about showing classic movies and local talent, afterwards Sundance and Cannes became the prestigious festivals to showcase your ambitious independent movie.
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Killer App / int_90c5d5fe	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_90c5d5fe	comment	Patapon was undoubtedly a pillar of the system for about as long as the PSP's lifespan.
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Killer App / int_90c73dda	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: At the end of the war, it's mentioned that Andalite technology becomes this to humanity (in exchange for humans opening restaurants on the Andalite homeworld).
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Killer App / int_935a39be	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_935a39be	comment	Super Smash Bros. Brawl, released on the Wii in 2008, was the top seller for its series and most impressively the fighting genre, until Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Switch surpassed it.
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Killer App / int_93b6f384	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_93b6f384	comment	Ape Escape was one for the DualShock controller, being the first game to explicitly require it due to utilizing both analogue sticks. Because of that, it was acclaimed as being one of the most revolutionary games on the platform, and to this day is still considered to be one of the best games on the PlayStation.
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Killer App / int_93ef7a8c	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_93ef7a8c	comment	Super Smash Bros. Melee is the GameCube killer app, being one of the most anticipated games for the system when initially announced. Considered by some to still be the best installment of the franchise, it's still being played competitively more than 15 years after its release: a shockingly long life for a Fighting Game that is surpassed only by Marvel vs. Capcom 2, which was released just one year earlier, and Street Fighter III Third Strike a year before that. Among non-fighting multiplayer games, the hottest seller for the GCN was Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, with 7 million units sold.
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Killer App / int_94081029	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_94081029	comment	Ridge Racer's console port was available on day one of the system, and was enough of a success to begin a generation-long partnership between Sony and Namco. It proved to be so popular that it was specifically used in 2006 to highlight the PSOne Classics line of games for the PSP and PS3 (or as more infamously remembered, the part in Sony E3 2006 press conference when Kaz Hirai said "Riiiiiidge Racer!"). Speaking of Namco titles, the console port of Air Combat was a launch title for the PlayStation in the west and was released early in its lifespan in Japan, eventually shipping 2.23 million units overall.
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Killer App / int_959dd815	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_959dd815	comment	Professional Wrestling has really only had one game that could be considered a killer app — WWF No Mercy for the N64. No Mercy had a big roster, an in-depth storyline mode, a very detailed for the time create-a-wrestler function, many different types of matches, and good multiplayer. Even people who don't like professional wrestling often like No Mercy, and the game still has an active modding community today. The next closest example would probably have to be WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain.
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Killer App / int_959e6cb	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_959e6cb	comment	Much like with its predecessors on the NES, Dragon Quest IX served as this in Japan once again, being released exclusively for the DS and selling over four million copies in the country, with an additional one million being shipped overseas. Aside from that, Scribblenauts, Cooking Mama, Professor Layton, and Ace Attorney were other third party series credited with pushing sales of the console.
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Killer App / int_960062b7	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia is this for the Weekly Shonen Jump app on Viz's site.
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Killer App / int_985ad25d	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super and My Hero Academia were this for the Toonami block with the former regularly beating Family Guy in the 18-49 demographic and the latter frequently coming close to Super.
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Killer App / int_999299b5	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_999299b5	comment	There are two candidates for the cross-platform killer app for both CD-ROM drives and sound cards: The 7th Guest and Myst, both often bundled with "multimedia upgrade kits"note A kit consisting of a CD-ROM drive, sound card, and software, typically with those two games, on CD PC people bought in order to play them, and these games were also often sold bundled with a Macintosh.
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Killer App / int_99c003af	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_99c003af	comment	The Boondocks was another one, though it was more controversial than the other examples.
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Killer App / int_9a7088bc	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9a7088bc	comment	In America, Star Trek: The Original Series was the killer app for color TV. This was an interesting sort of chicken-or-the-egg case where one helped the other and vice versa, with color TV more or less being the reason why the original Star Trek stayed on the air as long as it did. While NBC had wanted to cancel it, their parent company RCA wanted to keep it for two reasons: they owned the patent for color TV, and Star Trek was the primary reason Americans bought them. RCA made more money selling color TVs to Star Trek fans than NBC lost by not giving its time slot to something else.
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Killer App / int_9ac9d448	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9ac9d448	comment	Ultimate Spider-Man and The Ultimates for the Ultimate Marvel line. For The Ultimates, Volumes 1 and 2 in particular.
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Killer App / int_9bcf051b	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9bcf051b	comment	The Final Fantasy Legend was an early hit for the Game Boy, and is notable for being the first million-seller game by Squaresoft, and was one of the first JRPGs released on the platform. It earned lots of acclaim from Japanese critics and audiences, spawned the SaGa series, and was acknowledged as an inspiration for the wildly successful PokÃ©mon games that would come later in the Game Boy's lifespan.
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Killer App / int_9d34190a	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9d34190a	comment	Do you like Western RPGs? You've probably played The Elder Scrolls, series or Baldur's Gate. Alternately, if you like Western RPGs but high fantasy's not your thing, you've probably got at least one Fallout or Mass Effect game in your library.
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Killer App / int_9d7f8403	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9d7f8403	comment	In his Defunctland episode on the show's Walt Disney World attraction, Kevin Perjurer also credited the show with fueling the popularity of iTunes. With digital distribution making it possible to release the contestants' covers of the various songs they performed on the show just hours after the episode aired, fans flocked to iTunes to purchase them. By extension, it also marked the end of the "album era" and heralded the return of the single as the driving force in pop music.
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Killer App / int_9e003c9	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9e003c9	comment	Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica, at the time considered the first "next generation" RE gamenote This was before Resident Evil 4 redefined the meaning of "next generation", mind to follow on from the original Playstation trilogy, was a big draw to gamers, as Resident Evil was the biggest survival horror franchise in gaming and Code: Veronica was (at the time at least) a Dreamcast exclusive.
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Killer App / int_9e2f90f4	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9e2f90f4	comment	For most of the 2000s, there was "The Big Three": One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach. Though it's worth pointing out that in Japan, Bleach, while popular, was successful but not to the point of "Big Three" status like it was in the States, with it's slot usually being filled by Dragonball (even though it had ended years ago, because it's fame and success is just that long-lasting) and for a while Toriko.
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Killer App / int_9ef055f4	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9ef055f4	comment	Also of note is the Ratchet & Clank series, which was so successful, Ratchet ended up becoming the new face of Sony after Crash and Spyro went third-party.
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Killer App / int_9f3684de	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9f3684de	comment	Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was the follow-up to both Spider-Man and Miles Morales, and was the first Sony-published game to be a full exclusive for the PS5 since Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart two years prior. It quickly became the bestselling first-party exclusive for the system, selling five million units in its first eleven days of release and receiving a limited edition PS5 console themed after it, notably being the first such game with this distinction for the PS5 after three years on the market.
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Killer App / int_9f89a5f0	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Do you like Japanese RPGs? You probably have a PokÃ©mon, Final Fantasy, or Dragon Quest game. In fact, Dragon Quest is such a killer app in Japan that even Salarymen will take a day off and students from the most prodigious schools will cut class just to buy a copy on the day it becomes available for sale. To prevent things like this, Square-Enix has even made a promise to the Japanese government to release new games in the series exclusively on weekends.
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Killer App / int_a201a0af	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a201a0af	comment	Hi-Fi RUSH: After a long drought of new games throughout 2022, Hi-Fi RUSH became a Sleeper Hit (after its surprise reveal and simultaneous release, no less) for Microsoft as a desirable exclusive for not only Xbox Game Pass, but is also a console exclusive to the Xbox Series X\|S - finally giving the platform a game that isn't on also on the Xbox One, thus averting a major complaint about the The Ninth Generation of Console Video Games in general. The fact that it's also a Japanese-developed exclusive also did much to endear it to players, as Japanese developers in the years prior had gravitated towards the Nintendo Switch and the PlayStation line of consoles, whereas Hi-Fi RUSH is guaranteed to remain exclusive to Xbox platforms by virtue of Microsoft owning it.
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Killer App / int_a2add1d2	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a2add1d2	comment	Splatoon became a Sleeper Hit, selling over one million copies worldwide in less than a month and eventually becoming the best-selling Wii U game in Japan despite the shooter genre not being all that popular in the region.
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Killer App / int_a2add1d3	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a2add1d3	comment	Splatoon 2 sold 671,000 physical units during its Japanese release weekend alone, outselling literally every other game on the Switch in the process. Even two years after release, the game was a mainstay on the Top 10 in Japanese sales charts (occasionally regaining the #1 spot), remaining the best-selling Switch game in the region until Super Smash Bros. Ultimate surpassed it five months after its release. Splatoon 3 could also be considered this as of its release in 2022, selling nearly 8 million units in its launch month alone, and 10 million by the end of 2022.
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Killer App / int_a2e81630	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a2e81630	comment	SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs and Final Fantasy XI were online-heavy games that allowed for the PlayStation 2 to keep up with the Xbox in terms of online play, with Sony even publishing Final Fantasy XI, and SOCOM being Sony's initial premiere online shooter, before the likes of Killzone and Resistance came along, with SOCOM even releasing alongside a custom headset for the PS2 that players could use to communicate with each other.
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Killer App / int_a321a398	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a321a398	comment	Super Mario 3D Land sold over five million copies in just two months worldwide, outselling games like Gears of War 3 and Skyrim on the Xbox 360. Mario Kart 7 sold 4.3 million in 5 weeks. Put together, the two Mario games represent a third of 3DS software sold in 2011. Combine those Mario games with Ocarina of Time and Nintendogs + cats, you have over one half of all 3DS software sold through 2011.
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Killer App / int_a4516d25	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a4516d25	comment	The PS2 launched with six well-received best-sellers out of the gate: Madden NFL 2001 (whose audiovisual jump instantly made other versions of Madden obsolete), Ridge Racer V, EA's SSX (which was a sleeper hit that launched a very successful franchise for the system), Midnight Club: Street Racing (which launched another successful franchise and marked the beginning of Sony and Rockstar's partnership for most of the PS2's lifespan), TimeSplitters, and Tekken Tag Tournament.
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Killer App / int_a5549ed0	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a5549ed0	comment	In the past, pilgrimages provided a killer app to make the risks and expense of travel worthwhile — plus saving your immortal soul! Pious people would make pilgrimages to holy springs, sites of martyrdom, even all the way to the Holy Land — so in a way, The Bible inspired a Killer App for travel in medieval Europe.
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Killer App / int_a57a6591	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a57a6591	comment	The earliest release to seriously entice people towards CDs was The Nightfly by Donald Fagen. Recorded and mixed digitally and based in a genre that leaned heavily into audiophilia, the album's rich, clear sound made it a popular demonstration title and a must-buy among audiophiles. So much so, in fact, that Warner (Bros.) Records had trouble keeping up with the demand and initially sourced CD copies from safety tapes, to the consternation of buyers and even engineer Roger Nichols. After Nichols published a scathing essay against this practice, Warner started using the digital master for CD reissues of The Nightfly in 1984, which, again, quickly became popular among audiophiles.
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Killer App / int_a5fec434	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a5fec434	comment	To a lesser extent, the Twisted Metal, Parappa The Rapper, Legacy of Kain, Hot Shots Golf, Tenchu, Syphon Filter, and Medal of Honor series.
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Killer App / int_a6543322	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a6543322	comment	The first five Touhou Project games spurred Western interest in the PC-98.
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Killer App / int_a66b3bbc	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a66b3bbc	comment	Though it had less casual-appeal than the above, DanceDanceRevolution kept the arcade scene afloat single-handedly, and no doubt was an inspiration for the physicality of gaming aspects that would become part of the Wii's appeal. Years later, Just Dance would turn dancing games into a genre in its own right, and incidentally helped Ubisoft become the Wii's biggest supporter outside of Nintendo.
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Killer App / int_a694767c	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a694767c	comment	WWF No Mercy is by far and large considered to be one of the greatest wrestling games out there, if not the greatest. It sold extremely well on the Nintendo 64, and is another third-party exclusive that system had in a time when Nintendo had little third-party exclusives to boast of.
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Killer App / int_a6bce733	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a6bce733	comment	Astral Chain. While not selling as much as other games, it has still managed to sell over a million copies, which is a great number by PlatinumGames' usual standards, especially since their largest successes have been licensed IPs, so seeing an original title like Astral Chain succeeding bodes well for them. Its status as a Nintendo-funded and published exclusive has otherwise managed to influence a non-insignificant number of people to buy a Switch, namely fans of Nier: Automata and Metal Gear Rising who otherwise had no interest in getting the console. In short, it's not a "killer app" in the sense that it's a blockbuster, but one in the sense that it attracted a good portion of non-Nintendo gamers and usually finds itself on a list of "must haves" for the console.
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Killer App / int_a8150af4	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power broke any record for most viewers and brought more Prime Video sign-ups than any other previous work for the stream service, being one of the main reasons for the platform overtaking Netflix in the US in December 2022.
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Killer App / int_a895e9d3	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_a895e9d3	comment	Preemptively, Valve releasing Steam and the Source-based games on Mac (Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 in particular) have caused a huge jump of interest in Mac gaming. The same thing has happened to Linux since the announcement that Valve would be porting Steam to Ubuntu.
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Killer App / int_ab4deac4	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ab4deac4	comment	Player Two Start naturally has this, being about an alternate timeline where Nintendo and Sony didn't part ways. Notable examples include Super Mario Dimensions, Final Fantasy VII, and Velvet Dark for the Ultra Nintendo, Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Resident Evil, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain for the Sega Saturn, the Grand Theft Auto, The Covenant, and Cyberwar franchises for the Xbox and Xbox Two, and Miraculous Ladybug (No, seriously. It's that kind of a timeline) for the Google Nexus.
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Killer App / int_abd7c3a3	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_abd7c3a3	comment	Club Penguin was the face of children's casual Massively Multiplayer Online Games until its closure, in which that its rival, Animal Jam took over.
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Killer App / int_ad1ffac9	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ad1ffac9	comment	The Virtua Fighter games sold many Sega Saturn systems in Japan, and were acclaimed for pioneering 3D-fighters long before Tekken or Dead or Alive came along. They were popular enough to the point where Sony advertised Battle Arena Toshinden as being a "Virtua Fighter and Sega Saturn killer" - though Tekken later took that role for them.
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Killer App / int_ae050a9f	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D served as this for the system, which was struggling to gain traction. Within two weeks of its Japanese release, it had sold over 600,000 copies, or over 20% of the install base. It raised 3DS sales by over 50% the week it came out as well, despite not being released in the West until the following week.
Killer App / int_ae050a9f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Killer App / int_aedbe0ff	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_aedbe0ff	comment	Duck Hunt, a common pack-in game on a two-fer with Super Mario Bros., became the second-best selling NES game, and also became a bestseller for the NES Zapper peripheral. Other first-party hits for the console include The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Excitebike, Dr. Mario, and Punch-Out!!.
Killer App / int_aedbe0ff	featureApplicability	1.0
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Duck Hunt (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_aedbe0ff
Killer App / int_af552e7e	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_af552e7e	comment	Metroid Prime, a First-Person Shooter take on a then-dormant Action-Adventure/Platformer franchise surprised many Metroid fans with its high qualitynote Retro Studios was an unknown American developer that at the time had only a string of cancelled projects to its name and mature feelnote Nintendo had developed a "kiddy" stigma in light of the teen/young adult-focus seen in Sony's PlayStation 2 and newcomer Microsoft's Xbox. The game went on to sell 2.8 million copies, making it the 7th best-selling game on the system and the best-selling entry in the franchise until Metroid Dread; it was also the most critically acclaimed video game in the sixth generation of game systems. The "Top 10 GameCube Games" video from ScrewAttack sums it up well:
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Killer App / int_b33c298c	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_b33c298c	comment	The Genesis version of Aladdin, made by Virgin Games in partnership with actual Disney animators, was the 3rd best selling game for the system, and this version did not come to the SNES, due to Capcom still holding the rights to make Disney games on Nintendo systems at the time.
Killer App / int_b33c298c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Killer App / int_b35adcc8	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_b35adcc8	comment	Luigi's Mansion 3 sold more than five million units in just two months. In comparison, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon on the 3DS was reported to have sold five million copies four years after its initial release, which says a lot about the game's success. The game itself is also considered to be an Even Better Sequel to the two games that preceded it, and has elevated the Luigi's Mansion games from being a Cult Classic to a mainstream success, hitting 12 million copies at the end of December 2022.
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Luigi's Mansion 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_b35adcc8
Killer App / int_b4967d43	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_b4967d43	comment	The Sonic the Hedgehog series on the Mega Drive/Sega Genesis was an instant smash hit, with kids flocking to the ultimate Mascot with Attitude (who provides the page image), while wowing gamers with its speed-and-momentum-based platforming, dazzling graphics and frame rate, and incredible music. It was the first true massive Nintendo-rattling hit for the system to the point it's often mistaken as a launch game (the system had been out for two years when the first Sonic game was released).
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Killer App / int_b5a087d7	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken is another one. It's a Long Runner that's been around for at least a decade with no end in sight, and also a Cash-Cow Franchise for the network and it's creators. The show's long-lasting appeal may stem partly from its clever satirizing of every topic under the sun, including properties with large fan bases themselves, (like Star Wars, DC Comics, The Walking Dead, etc.), as well as it's gorgeous stop-motion animation.
Killer App / int_b5a087d7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Robot Chicken	hasFeature	Killer App / int_b5a087d7
Killer App / int_b8eb4fe5	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	Sakura Wars was the other Saturn killer app in Japan. The first and second games recorded the biggest sales as a Saturn original title, and was ranked #13 place in the Famitsu's 100 all-time favorite games list, leading the series to become one of Sega's most successful franchises.
Killer App / int_b8eb4fe5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Killer App / int_ba1083f7	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ba1083f7	comment	Guitar Hero turned Rhythm Games from weird J-Pop things (in the eyes of many) to a major western phenomenon.
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Guitar Hero (Video Game)	hasFeature	Killer App / int_ba1083f7
Killer App / int_ba666650	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is widely considered one of the PS2's best games (if not the best), and also one of the system's top 10 to top 15 best-sellers.
Killer App / int_ba666650	featureApplicability	1.0
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Killer App / int_bdaadeed	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_bdaadeed	comment	After a relatively dry post-launch spell, the system received many killer apps later in 2001, including but not limited to: Onimusha (the first game to reach one million units on the system), Dark Cloud, Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Twisted Metal Black, Red Faction, Final Fantasy X, Everybody's Golf 3, Devil May Cry, Dynasty Warriors 3, Silent Hill 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Grand Theft Auto III, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. Coincidentally — or perhaps not — this coincided with release of two of its competitors' consoles, the GameCube and Xbox. And due to the anticipation generated by its pre-release hype, Metal Gear Solid 2 is credited for the PlayStation 2's victory over the Dreamcast before the game was even released. The game then went on to being one of the top 10 best-sellers, with over 7 million copies sold.
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Killer App / int_be68ee29	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_be68ee29	comment	Super Smash Bros. for Wii U managed to sell 490,000 physical and digital copies sold during its first three days of availability alone, despite the availability and success of a 3DS version which was released two months prior.
Killer App / int_be68ee29	featureApplicability	1.0
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Killer App / int_c0d295c4	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_c0d295c4	comment	Valve did it again with Team Fortress 2 in 2007, which is, to this very day, their most successful game of all time, and was tied with DOTA 2 (also by Valve) as the most popular game on Steam until it was finally overtaken by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds a decade later.
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Killer App / int_c13792a1	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_c13792a1	comment	God of War III, though not hurt by being released at the time the price cut was taking effect.
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Killer App / int_c137ae09	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_c137ae09	comment	God of War (PS4) was this not long after its release, becoming the highest-rated PS4 exclusive in the proccess. In the month of April 2018, the PS4 outsold both the Xbox One X and the Nintendo Switch.
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Killer App / int_c35ec21c	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_c35ec21c	comment	Super Mario Odyssey received universal acclaim from both critics, casual audiences, and longtime Mario fans, and managed to sell two million copies within its first three days. Almost immediately, it ended up reaching more than a quarter of the install base for the Switch. Within two months it became the best-selling game on the console, reaching heights of nine million. It held the title of the bestselling game on the Switch until little more than a year later, when it was surpassed by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (more on that below). It since has been become the best selling 3D Mario installment with over 26 million copies sold by the end of June 2023.
Killer App / int_c35ec21c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Killer App / int_c49480dc	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_c49480dc	comment	Battle Arena Toshinden was hyped as the first killer app for the system, a "Virtua Fighter Killer". It took at first, but the quality of later games overtook it and now it's currently forgotten and considered to not have aged well at all. The first big killer app ended up being Capcom's Resident Evil, with the Tekken series, Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Spyro the Dragon, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater following up to make the PlayStation a viable contender against Sega and Nintendo. The system's sheer number of killer apps is the main reason it was able to take the video game throne from Sega and Nintendo in the mid '90s.
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Killer App / int_c6245086	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_c6245086	comment	Crysis was a boon for graphics card manufacturers, as even years after its release, hardcore computer gamers have been working hard to build systems that can render its incredible graphics at full detail without dropping frames. It was also important because at the time, other developers who weren't abandoning the PC altogether were making ports that were vastly inferior to their own contemporary Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 versions for no good reason — not taking advantage of the more powerful hardware available to PCs, sometimes not even acknowledging that PCs could have different hardware by letting you change the graphical settings), making little effort to properly port the controls from a controller to keyboard and mouse, ignoring existing bugs and often introducing new ones that would also go ignored, et cetera. Some say that this game single-handedly saved the platform and jump-started its renaissance.
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Killer App / int_c6e9c6cc	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_c6e9c6cc	comment	Super Mario Galaxy was for several years the best-selling 3D Platform Game of all-time, being eventually surpassed by Super Mario Odyssey on the Switch. New Super Mario Bros. Wii became the third best-selling platformer ever, beaten only by other entries in the Super Mario series, and is seen by some as the start of the genre's resurgence on consoles. Similarly, Mario Kart Wii was for the longest time the best selling game in the history of the racing genre until Mario Kart 8 Deluxe took over.
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Killer App / int_c96cfe29	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_c96cfe29	comment	The SNES also floated high on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Star Fox, both of which sold over 4 million units each and becoming instant hits with fans. A Link to the Past is widely credited with codifying the modern formula for The Legend of Zelda, with every other games in the series following the conventions it first laid down. Meanwhile, Star Fox launched an entire franchise and was widely acclaimed for being one of the very first console games to achieve 3D polygonal graphics, thanks to Argonaut Software' Super FX technology.
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Killer App / int_ca5d97f1	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ca5d97f1	comment	For entertainment programming, member stations were the first in America to air Monty Python's Flying Circus in the mid-70s, after it had finished its run in Britain. The show attracted a younger, countercultural audience to PBS. The success of the series also established British series as staples of PBS programming.
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Killer App / int_cb09ad9	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_cb09ad9	comment	Try thinking of a PC game before King's Quest. Outside of the Zork series of Text Adventures, it's not a very easy task. The colorful, imaginative adventures that Sierra brought to life gave gamers something appealing that console games, with their straightforward running and jumping and shooting, just couldn't offer: an interactive, immersive world you could get lost in as it unfolded in vivid graphics, text details and cutscenes. It also popularized the Tandy 1000/PC Jr. graphics mode, which allowed PCs to display all 16 colors of the CGA standard at once instead of just palettes of 4, which finally made the PC into a viable gaming platform. Even if they aren't exactly vivid by today's (or even the latter half of the decade's) standards, it was enough to convince a lot of people why you would want to play video games on the "homework machine".
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Killer App / int_ce700ce5	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ce700ce5	comment	Rise of the Tomb Raider tried to be this, by being an entry in the iconic series exclusive to Xbox and even had Microsoft handling publishing duties for it. However, the announcement of it being a timed exclusive drew a large amount of backlash, due to Lara Croft's multiplatform history (and generally associated more with Sony than with Microsoft). Nevertheless, the game did sell at least one million units on the Xbox One, but it's clear that this wasn't the juggernaut either Microsoft or Square Enix expected it to be.
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Killer App / int_cf6ccaa7	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_cf6ccaa7	comment	Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the long-awaited followup to the series after 2012/2013's New Leaf for the 3DS. It lead to the Switch's best sales outside of the holiday season, with sales in the US during March 2020 being the best for any console for the month of March. As of June 2023, it was the second best selling game on the Switch at 42.79 million copies, second only to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
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Killer App / int_d0aa1fb1	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_d0aa1fb1	comment	Grandia was another, coming out directly as the JRPG craze of the fifth generation had begun, and became one of the most acclaimed games on the Saturn, as well as one of the most imported from overseas thanks to word of mouth.
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Killer App / int_d3111230	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_d3111230	comment	Monster Hunter: Rise followed in the footsteps of the 3DS installments by selling a whopping four million copies in the first three days of sales, thus making it the undisputed bestselling third-party game on the Switch, surpassing titles like Among Us, Octopath Traveler, and Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and managed to reach seven million units in only two months.
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Killer App / int_d34b015e	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_d34b015e	comment	Easy Rider was made on a shoestring budget, later sold for distribution and became a huge success and the definitive counter culture movie.
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Killer App / int_d500b17d	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_d500b17d	comment	The Forza games, (consisting of Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon), are Microsoft's racing killer app, designed to target the PlayStation's Gran Turismo series. Forza has sold millions, and the wide variety of cars, customization, painting, and (in Horizon's case) the amazing open worlds and music makes it the go-to racing simulator for the Xbox.
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Killer App / int_d5c8b37a	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_d5c8b37a	comment	Turok was one of the few third-party exclusives the console did have, and it was also one of the most violent games on the system in general. It sold 1.5 million units and was credited with pushing sales of the console.
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Killer App / int_d5fcae4e	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_d5fcae4e	comment	Ted Lasso, and to a lesser extent CODA, are considered this for Apple TV+.
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Killer App / int_d6cfcf4d	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_d6cfcf4d	comment	Animal Crossing: New Leaf sold two million copies in Japan alone in less than six weeks, and eventually went on to sell more than City Folk on the Nintendo DS. This success and the game's nature as a life sim also did much to push Nintendo's attempts at publishing major titles digitally through the eShop.
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Killer App / int_d82da1ba	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_d82da1ba	comment	F-Zero (1990) was a launch title for the SNES that showcase Mode 7 graphics in their entirety for the very first time, and ended up selling nearly 3 million units across its lifetime, and it was then followed up on by the monster success of Super Mario Kart, another showcase of Mode 7 marked the beginning of the most popular Mario spinoff series with Mario Kart.
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Killer App / int_d9c602eb	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park was this for a long time. When it was picked up, channel viewership was mediocre among cable networks, and there were still cable providers who didn't provide it in their basic package. It created a boom of overall channel viewership and a demand for Comedy Central. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are also credited with building and keeping audience, but not quite in the same numbers or rate as South Park.
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Killer App / int_da1208fe	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_da1208fe	comment	Some people have suggested invoking killer apps when it comes to buying new electronics, namely by testing the hardware by using something that would prove its quality. Specifically, in one article about buying a new television, the reporter suggested taking a DVD of Moulin Rouge! to the electronics store with you, saying that if a TV could stand up to its fast pace and bright color palette, it can handle almost anything.
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Killer App / int_db59313b	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_db59313b	comment	Atari was counting on both Pac-Man and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to be killer apps for the 2600, and had each produced in wildly optimistic numbers; in fact, more Pac-Man cartridges were produced than there were Atari consoles, on the assumption that the game would be so popular people would buy consoles just to play it. As it turned out, they were only half-right, as they did help to kill the Atari 2600, and very nearly the entire industry. Despite this, both the games did still sell millions. Ironically, the Atari 2600 had a fantastically faithful version of Ms. Pac-Man, but by the time it was released, the 2600 was on its way out.
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Killer App / int_db8f5163	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_db8f5163	comment	Tearaway is this too (despite not being released on the PS Plus line-up). It also uses most, if not all the console's features in many, creative ways.
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Killer App / int_de0a2ea5	comment	Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps by Moon Studios were widely-acclaimed, being Metroidvanias with a beautiful animated style reminiscent of Ghilbi films, and are generally well-received for being exclusives published by Microsoft that aren't just another Halo, Gears, or Forza, something which helps it stand out on the console. The original was popular enough to warrant a port to the Nintendo Switch years later, and the second game saw its Switch port in the same year as its original release.
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Killer App / int_de276825	comment	Attempts had been made for ages to sell 3D accelerators, and while 3dfx's Voodoo made a good argument, it was a combination of GLQuake and Unreal that caused people to pour hundreds of dollars into enough system upgrades to see them rendered through Glide.Note that GLQuake is not the first 3D-accelerated version of Quake; that honor goes to VQuake for the Rendition Verite cards. Incidentally, its proprietary RRedline API (remember that Direct3D and OpenGL were not mainstream at the time) caused John Carmack to swear off vendor-specific APIs afterward, and it was just by coincidence that 3dfx had a card that could run the subset of OpenGL that GLQuake required at a fraction of the cost of a professional 3D graphics workstation, such as the ones by Silicon Graphics.
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Killer App / int_deae6de5	comment	Similarly locked to Japan was the SuperGrafx, which boasted arcade-perfect ports of Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Strider.
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Killer App / int_e04f934e	comment	Fire Emblem: Three Houses marked another breakthrough for the Fire Emblem franchise, receiving lots of attention and advertising from Nintendo, leading to it becoming the bestselling game in the series at 2.29 million copies sold in its first three months alone, introducing a very sizable amount of new players to the series, and winning the Player's Voice Award at the Game Awards 2019, the only award that is 100% decided upon by the fans. Bear in mind that it went up against Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Death Stranding in order to win that award, and that was only in the final round. It has since then reached 4.12 million copies sold be the end of December 2022, making it the top selling installment in the franchise.
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Killer App / int_e0f1b3dc	comment	Also the Age of Empires series. Age of Empires II in particular, was one of the most successful and well crafted PC RTS games of its time, and still maintains a large player and modding community despite being over two decades old.
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Killer App / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Grand Theft Auto IV was the first Multi-Platform title in the series, with Microsoft paying a hefty fee for Rockstar to bring it to the Xbox 360 on day one. The gamble paid off significantly, as not only did IV sell better on the Xbox 360 than it did on the PS3, but Microsoft also received timed exclusivity on the game's two DLC campaigns, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. IV's success as a multiplatform title also changed Rockstar's strategy going forward, with mega-blockbuster titles like the Red Dead series and Grand Theft Auto V all having multiplatform launches from that point going forward.
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Killer App / int_e26d37ec	comment	The explosive success of the Game Boy is widely attributed to Tetris being released as a pack-in game for the system. Tetris was already incredibly popular before the debut of the Game Boy version, appealed to an extremely broad audience outside of traditional gamers, and its gameplay was the perfect fit for a portable system. It would go on to be the most popular Puzzle Game of all-time.
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Killer App / int_e4395deb	comment	Michael Jackson's Moonwalker gave the Genesis a big push, thanks to the novelty of being able to play as the King of Pop, himself.
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Killer App / int_e48493b3	comment	The Ultima franchise was the crown RPG of early PCs. So much so, it had a profound effect on NES RPGs for a long, long while. Like other series, it forced some users to upgrade their hardware to play Ultima VII.
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Killer App / int_e5d8f3eb	comment	Blue Lightning and Klax for the Atari Lynx.
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Killer App / int_e5da0fa0	comment	Myst was the killer app that transformed the CD-ROM drive from a mildly interesting computer curiosity into an absolute must-have feature. Myst was a killer app for the Mac, as was originally written for the Mac and appeared around the time CD-ROM drives first started becoming standard equipment on Macs. When the game was eventually ported to the PC, it also made sound cards a must in every PC. One must have a sound card to fully enjoy the game, and after the title, any PC that doesn't have a sound card is considered a poor man's PC. Prior to that, sound cards were largely considered a luxury peripheral that was unnecessary for mainstream gaming. It also helps that all sound cards made back then had a built-in proprietary CD-ROM port, which is needed if you're going to add a CD-ROM drive to the PC because all CD drives manufactured at that time only either supported the SCSI interface (mainly because Macs, Amigas and Atari STs back then used SCSI for the hard disk and CD-ROM drive, and thus SCSI came as standard on them) or a non-IDE proprietary interface. A major non-gaming killer app among techies for CD-ROM was Linux distributions, where floppy-based installs were already becoming unwieldy by the mid-90s (proprietary OSes moved to CD-ROM around the same time for the same reason). Most people also had slow dialup internet connections. There was a cottage industry of people selling Linux distributions on CD-ROM for little more than the cost of the media. This made installing Linux much easier than trying to download it over a phone line and having to go through several boxes of floppies. Linux also proved to be a major reason to get a CD burner when they became affordable.
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Killer App / int_e7d9a0f7	comment	Star Raiders was a bona fide killer app for the Atari 8-Bit Computers; many people bought the computer just to play the game.
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Killer App / int_e7efd7dd	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_e7efd7dd	comment	Bonnie and Clyde deliberately filmed far away from Hollywood to avoid Executive Meddling, and its success utilizing such violence is what broke The Hays Code forever.
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Killer App / int_e9cb2780	comment	Gears of War 5: After years of struggling with the perception that the Xbox One platform lacked any noteworthy exclusive, Gears 5 released in 2019 to a very positive reception and lots of media hype. In addition to serving as a killer app for the Xbox One hardware, it also served as one for Microsoft's Game Pass subscription, being a high-quality AAA game to be available from day one on the service.
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Killer App / int_e9e265b6	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening, despite selling much less than the previously-mentioned games, was the best-selling game of the franchise (by a wide margin) until its sequel was released three years later. It's also notable in that was not only successful enough to increase the franchise's popularity in the West, but also prevent the series' cancellation, as declining sales meant Awakening was intended as the final game.
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Killer App / int_ea4f62db	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ea4f62db	comment	Syndicated reruns of FOX cartoons like Family Guy and (when they still had the rights to it), Futurama, which tend to get high ratings.
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Killer App / int_ea684cd0	comment	Bayonetta 2 was another third party title that Nintendo tried to make into a killer app (even funding the development of the game, thus earning exclusivity rights for it), and while it didn't become a giant system seller, it nonetheless increased interest in the failing console and was acclaimed by critics and audiences, and Nintendo was satisfied enough with the game's sales that they ported it and the first game to the Nintendo Switch, as well as funding a second sequel exclusively for that console. It also helps that the game received a Colbert Bump thanks to Bayonetta being added as DLC to Smash on the same console.
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Killer App / int_eb2a8ea9	comment	Crackdown was this, though that was mainly because it was the game that people needed to buy in order to access the Halo 3 demo, then the most anticipated game on the console - though it did help that Crackdown was considered a damn good game on its own anyways, and was successful enough to spawn two sequels, though neither are as well-liked or enjoyed as the original was.
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Killer App / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII were clearly meant to be this, as they were revealed at Sony's E3 2006 press conference, plus VII and X were killer apps for the first two home PlayStation consoles respectively. However, an Xbox 360 port of XIII ended up being announced before release, and the game itself saw mixed reviews from fans and critics. As for Versus XIII? That didn't even come out until the next generation of consoles, and instead became Final Fantasy XV.
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Killer App / int_ebc16974	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ebc16974	comment	Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition was a minor one for the 3DS very early in its lifespan, being a launch title for the system, and also the first game on the 3DS to pass a million units sold.
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Killer App / int_edac271f	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_edac271f	comment	American Idol: In the United States, it was this for SMS text messaging. Starting in the second season, the cell phone service provider AT&T partnered with the producers of Idol to allow viewers to text their votes in, hoping to promote texting among young people. It worked, as millions of fans learned how to text in order to do so, driving not only the show's popularity but also the explosion of texting as a mainstream communication tool in the 2000s. In his Defunctland episode on the show's Walt Disney World attraction, Kevin Perjurer also credited the show with fueling the popularity of iTunes. With digital distribution making it possible to release the contestants' covers of the various songs they performed on the show just hours after the episode aired, fans flocked to iTunes to purchase them. By extension, it also marked the end of the "album era" and heralded the return of the single as the driving force in pop music.
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Killer App / int_ef265688	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ef265688	comment	Alien vs. Predator and Tempest 2000 were this for the otherwise ill-fated Jaguar.
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Killer App / int_ef661e97	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ef661e97	comment	Fancy yourself a fan of fighting games? Then you must have played a Street Fighter game. In fact, Street Fighter II introduced many fighting game mechanics that persist to this day. Among 3D fighters, Tekken still reigns supreme.
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Killer App / int_ef7b3325	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four and Spider-Man were the reasons that kids and teens in the sixties bought Marvel Comics, taking the company from perpetual number two to a legitimate rival for DC Comics. For most of the eighties and nineties, X-Men was the book to buy. It was popular to such an extent that a good chunk of the Marvel Universe was comprised mostly of X-Men books for a time. Ultimate Spider-Man and The Ultimates for the Ultimate Marvel line. For The Ultimates, Volumes 1 and 2 in particular.
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Killer App / int_f1785a72	comment	The best-selling game on the system was Gran Turismo, whose astonishing attention to detail and realism pushed forward what could be done on current systems, while still remaining accessible and fun for even non-gearheads, and spearheaded the sim-racer genre. Its sequel wound up as the third-best-selling game on the system, with the Turismos sandwiching Final Fantasy VII.
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Killer App / int_f17c3b1d	comment	Dead Rising was an exclusive from Capcom, and proved to be widely popular by being a Denser and Wackier take on the Survival Horror genre with a hint of musou-styled crowd combat gameplay, having the player go up against hordes of zombies. It was so popular, that protagonist Frank West was eventually introduced to the Capcom vs. series to duke it out with other Capcom legends. Similarly, the console ports of Valve's Left 4 Dead duology were exclusive to the Xbox 360.
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Killer App / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn was critically acclaimed and sold over 2.5 million copies within two weeks of its launch, subsequently becoming Sony's biggest launch of a new IP during the console's lifetime. It maintained this record until 2020, when it was beaten by Ghost of Tsushima. By 2019, it sold over 10 million copies.
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Killer App / int_f361b493	type	Killer App
Killer App / int_f361b493	comment	In America, I Love Lucy, Texaco Star Theater, the Army-McCarthy hearings, and the 1960 Presidential debates were television's Killer Apps. In Britain, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was this. The moon landings were this in, of all places, South Africa. When the people of South Africa realized that they were the only people in the Western world who couldn't watch Neil Armstrong take his one small, historic step on the surface of the moon, they pressured their government to end its ban on television programming (which it viewed as a morally corrupting influence). They finally lifted the ban in 1975. Ironically, for Japan, which was still only barely out of the post-war devastation and overwhelmingly poor (it was worse there than in North Korea, actually) it was also the Elizabeth II coronation. People were taking out five-year loans with ridiculously rip-off rates just to be able to watch it.
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Killer App / int_f4ba2731	comment	Notably for a Nintendo console, the system was announced during its reveal at E3 2010 to be receiving exclusive games from major third party franchises. These included Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], Resident Evil: Revelations, and Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, denoting strong third party support for Nintendo's handheld, which was a boon in distinguishing it from their other consoles.
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Killer App / int_f6a54e75	comment	The Kingdom Hearts series was already bound to be a massive success, being a crossover of Final Fantasy and Disney Animated Canon that featured fun and flashy Action RPG gameplay. The first game is the tenth-bestselling PS2 game, which more than the likes of Ratchet & Clank, God of War, and Jak and Daxter.
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Killer App / int_f724b70d	comment	Code Lyoko and Totally Spies! were this for their Miguzi block in the mid-2000s.
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Killer App / int_f7c8e36e	comment	Octopath Traveler managed to surpass two million units sold on the Switch, and was generally one of the more talked-about exclusives for the Nintendo Switch in 2018 despite the fact that said exclusivity was only temporary. Like with Xenoblade Chronicles 2, it was mainly helped by the lack of JRPGs available on the Switch during that period of time, but also appealed to many turn-based RPG fans that had been otherwise underwhelmed by Square Enix's other output in the recent years drifting more towards the Action RPG end of things.
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Killer App / int_f858847a	comment	PokÃ©mon X and Y ended up selling four million copies in its first two days of sales and became the fastest-selling 3DS game of all time...until PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon released a few years later and completely broke those recordsnote in part thanks to PokÃ©mon GO returning the franchise to levels of popularity unseen since the late 1990s to quickly become the third best-selling game on the system, less than half a million copies behind X and Y and a million behind Mario Kart 7. Meanwhile, PokÃ©mon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire sold 3 million copies in its first three days.
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Killer App / int_fb0c3aa4	comment	If one goes even earlier, you can credit Voltron for anime's expansion in the USA. Its most notable and innovative (at the time of course) feature was the Stereophonic Soundtrack that GoLion, its original version, lacked. This feature made it THE show to air to showcase the Stereo capabilities of most affiliate stations and systems.
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Killer App / int_fbfef40c	comment	Tetris 99, a Battle Royale Game-themed variation of the Tetris formula, follows in the footsteps of the original game for the Game Boy by being one for the Nintendo Switch Online service as a result of Tetris 99 being given away for free to its subscribers. Nintendo credited it as boosting user engagement with the Nintendo Switch Online service, with over a quarter of NSO subscribers signed up to the service playing it.
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Killer App / int_fdad4d16	comment	Astro's Playroom is this for the console's controller, the DualSense. It has been nearly universally praised for selling the concept of the controller's gimmicks and innovations.
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Killer App / int_ff9ca30	comment	As time passed, the Wii also gained more traditional games that also proved to be bestsellers, such as Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Monster Hunter 3 (Tri), Punch-Out!!, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Sonic Colors, and Xenoblade Chronicles.
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PhotoDojo	seeAlso	Killer App
PocketGod	seeAlso	Killer App
StarFox	seeAlso	Killer App
Tanto	seeAlso	Killer App
VIC20	seeAlso	Killer App
VirtualBoy	seeAlso	Killer App
Wii	seeAlso	Killer App
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Star Fox (Video Game)	seeAlso	Killer App
Strider (Video Game)	seeAlso	Killer App
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