OriGin on 27 March 2007
hanafuda said:
There are some shockingly poor sales here, and no excuses.
'It is cheaper to develop for the Wii though!!'. Even if it is (I have yet to see any proof on this yet, although people quote it like they read through the accounting books of game development companies every day), why would you care if your game flops?
No wonder Reggie recently made some sudden announcement about a huge 3rd party development shift to the Wii. Getting a bit nervous there Nintendo 
Some of those titles are definately very poor, but who is there to claim excuses apart from the 3rd party developers themselves? The games that are very low on that list just don't suit the Japanese market at the moment, and honestly I don't blame them for not selling because they are incredibly poor. The Japanese buyer is much smarter these days, they don't buy crap games any more, clear and simple, they don't (unless it's an anime spin off :P)!! But 3,000 sales for a game like Wing Island?? Wholly crap that is shocking! I don't know how long that game has been out now, but anyway you look at it that is terrible.
But I can pull out alltime Japanese sales for any of the current gen platforms and they all have some low performing titles across the board, YES even the DS has games that have sold under 6000 units LTD.
What sort of proof do you want about the ease and cheapness of development on Wii? I think denying the fact that it is cheaper and FAR easier to develop for is being delusional hanafuda, you cannot seriously think that development costs are the same on Wii? I can go and dig up proof if you want to, but I really can't be bothered because it's such a pitiful and stupid argument to make, I shouldn't even bother to refute it.
The comments about Reggie saying huge 3rd party development is coming to the Wii also... I can't understand how you think Nintendo are the ones that are nervous? Where do you get that from considering they are topping the sales charts in every region.
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