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BengaBenga on 17 November 2008
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mrstickball said:
Mummelmann said:
Who cares anyway? CoD World at War is by far the weakest in the series imo, even worse than CoD 3. I had hoped, after playing it, that it'd flop on all platforms so the dev's would be forced to get their act together for CoD 5.
There's a whole list of grievances I could make (and I will if anyone wants me to).

Maybe it's just me, but I would find it to be pretty damning of the Wii as a console that can move good 3rd party games if it can't even move 1/10th of the units the X360/PS3 will sell on Week-1.

Even if it's a bad Call of Duty (of course, it's Tetryarch so it's expected), it's still a Call of Duty game. That's like expecting Final Fantasy XIII to bomb on the Wii if it was a day & date launch with the other versions, but a bad FF game overall.

*If* the Wii version cannot manage to sell within 50% of the Playstation 3 version, I will gladly put in my sig that the Wii cannot sell 3rd party games to a 'core' audience.

 

 

Everyone that gives some attention to stats knows Wii sells more third party software in total volume than the other consoles. Also Wii games tend to be much less frontloaded than the HD console ones. Even if (and I highly doubt that) CoD:WaW will only sell 1/10th of the HD games it will overtime be much less than that. Don't forget there's a fanbase on the PS360 for CoD that's not on Wii.
Core audience is purely subjective and can therefore not be used as a measurement. Every game that sells over 4 million does per definition not appeal to "hardcore gamers" alone, so CoD also appeals to the casual gamer.