What happens if games like Boogie and Dewy's Adventure keep bombing?

[*~Onna76~*]

Just_Ben said:

*~Onna76~* said:

famousringo said:

*~Onna76~* said:
*feel like talking to a wall around here*

In my experience, when nobody responds to what you say, it usually means that whatever you said was sensible enough that nobody can take issue with it.

So if you really want attention, say something controversial and/or unsubstantiated. ;)

Ha ha shall keep that in mind, in that case I'd rather have no attention at all then :P

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 The bad thing is, he is kind of right. If you don't have an extreme position, you kind of get overlooked. Sometimes i wonder how much is argued here against an extreme position, especially if it gets off topic. I personaly think people here compare heavy casual and kidy titles to the heavy core / hardcore titles. If you have a new IP, the only way to have god sells is a good mouth to mouth propaganda. Thats just the way it is in the casual market, if the IP is new and not that good advertised. Only a good appealing games help. Don't know boogie is that, but could be in the little girl market though.

 

Look at brain training. OK it has not boomed the first week, but its just sells and sells, being arround the top twenty 70 weeks and counting. It had arround 70k the first week, and know 70 weeks later, its still about 20k. Casual titles, and titles on a "casual console" have long legs, if (and only if) they are fun. 

Mario Party sells, because of die hard Nintendo fans, well known franchise and mouth to mouth propaganda.  Consider that Mario Party is new to some Wii owner, considering they didn't had a cube or N64, and heck its fun. Thats what matters in that market.

Your right explosively, agressive reactions screams for attention. Though, I'd rather keep on acting normal, for as far you can call it normal, than behave myself to a level in where I should be utterly ashamed of myself, only to get attention....

Yes, that's what I said as well, so I agree with you. LocoRoco is also a utterly cute game, very good and probably well advertised as that game sold pretty good. New titles need a lot of attention to interest gamers to buy. I'm not entirely sure if this is the case in Japan with Dewy, but it's odd that this game is one of the worst selling WII games, while it's actually good and solid. I haven't seen much advertisment on Japanese websites,for that matter. Treasure Island Z / Zack & Wicky on the other hand gets a lot of attention on websites such as Famitsu, Dengekionline and Watch.Impress. So you can understand how anxious I am to see how that game will sell in it's first week. In about 2 months we will find out, as the release is planned on October the 25th.

The thing is with Brain Training, it got a lot of media attention, also in commercials, at least over here. I remember when the first Brain Training game released here in the Netherlands it was even all around the news about the question if a video game really could train your memory. Of course Neurologists said it was... surprisely enough.... "nonsense". Still, it makes people interest in the game, and most of all thanks to commercials on television.