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spurgeonryan said:
Roma said:
MA3 will bomb hard compared to the other versions. its a port, there will be a collection of all thee games on the other consoles and it has technical problems!

EA should just cancel the game!


I will be redboxing it or renting it. I do not want them to cancel.

they should cancel it and give us the trilogy instead



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I think this is far too open to interpretation ... For what they are I think most games will sell relatively well, but in may cases that will require a disclaimer of *all things considered*

 

 

Ultimately, we won't know for a little while yet but I think that even with some high profile "flops" Nintendo could have one of the best selling launch line-ups ever. Games like Nintendoland, New Super Mario U, Wii Fit U, and Lego City are (almost) certainly going to be multi-million selling games; and games like Rayman Legends, ZombiU, Skylander's Giants, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 are likely million selling games. Out of Mass Effect 3, Assassin's Creed 3, Darksiders 2, The Wonderful 101,Batman Arkham City, Madden, Sonic Racing, Scribblenauts, Rabbids Land, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and Disney Epic Mickey 2 there are several games which will sell over 500,000 copies and may even be breakout successes.

Please note, all the sales I am talking about are lifetime sales and I'm (kind-of) counting on the Wii U (like all systems at launch) having a limited library for the first 6 months to a year. Many of these games may get a steady 10,000 to 50,000 sales a week fro most of a year to get these sales.



Viper1 said:
spurgeonryan said:
Mr Khan said:
milkyjoe said:
Mass Effect 3 has been designed to bomb, and it will do so in a glorious, spectacular fashion.

My bet is 350,000 LTD


Those types of numbers were fine for the Wii back in the day. Just to maybe break even. But that is not going to cut it this gen.

If Ubisoft is to be beleived and it takes less than $1.3 million to port to the Wii U, 350,000 will be fine.

350,000 x $20 (publisher cut of retail price) = $7 million.

Bomb is more about expectation than profit. Doubtlessly Animal Crossing: City Folk turned a profit for Nintendo, equally doubtlessly it was also a bomb in their eyes.

Although perhaps EA has super-low expectations for ME3.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

Wonderul 101, I love Platinum but everything they do bomb.

Also Rayman.



I think a better title for this thread should be "which WiiU titles will be successful and which ones won't", because that's the attitude I'm going to bring to my answer here:

Successful:
Mario U, NintendoLand, ZombiU, Assassin's Creed 3 (it's among the top ordered titles), Call of Duty II, Scribblenauts Umlimited, Just Dance 4, EM2, Rabbids Land

Modestly successful:
NG 3, Sonic, Tekken 2, SING Party, ESPN, Darksiders II, Batman (depends),

Unsuccessful:
Mass Effect 3 (probably, unless EA has low expectations for it), Tank Tank Tank



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Mr Khan said:
Viper1 said:
spurgeonryan said:
Mr Khan said:
milkyjoe said:
Mass Effect 3 has been designed to bomb, and it will do so in a glorious, spectacular fashion.

My bet is 350,000 LTD


Those types of numbers were fine for the Wii back in the day. Just to maybe break even. But that is not going to cut it this gen.

If Ubisoft is to be beleived and it takes less than $1.3 million to port to the Wii U, 350,000 will be fine.

350,000 x $20 (publisher cut of retail price) = $7 million.

Bomb is more about expectation than profit. Doubtlessly Animal Crossing: City Folk turned a profit for Nintendo, equally doubtlessly it was also a bomb in their eyes.

Although perhaps EA has super-low expectations for ME3.


IF EA has anything higher than "super-low" expectations for ME3, then they need to immediately fire whoever is in charge of their expectations.

SW:TOR - It's going to rival WoW!

MoH:W - But our internal testing said the game was GREAT!

 

EA needs to open its eyes to the real industry desires and trends.



I don't think wonderful 101 will flop, it won't make spectacular sales, but I guess it's also a mid-low budget game.



I feel that the term "flop" is sometimes blown out of proportion for some cases. If a game doesn't have such a big budget, then a 300k-500k sales wouldn't be TOO terrible. It won't be a million-seller, true, but as long as the game isn't budgeted so high, at least it'll be profitable.



milkyjoe said:
Mass Effect 3 has been designed to bomb, and it will do so in a glorious, spectacular fashion.

Considering this and the lack of effort (seemingly) with Madden for WiiU, I hope Activision does really well on the console.