| fastyxx said:
We've been having this discussion all week. Those graphs show that the Wii doesn't sell 3rd party games very well. The only 3rd party big sellers are Carnival Games, Game Party (?!?!), Mario and Sonic (still Mario, though), and Guitar Hero. We Ski and Legos have done fairly well. Otherwise it's wasteland of 300k-selling games on an install base of HOW many?
But it's not the Wii's fault. It's developer/publishers/marketers AND Nntendo's (and they don't much care at this point - they prefer the percentage being tilted toward first party, obviously). No one can come up with an original IP game that breaks out on this platform? You can argue Carnival Games is, technically, but be real - it's Wii Play/Sports in a diffferent box. We Ski is, I guess. (I don't know what Game Party is, but it sounds like more mini games.)
But where are sales for Boom Blox, and Sam and Max, and Zack and Wiki, and No More Heroes etc. etc.?
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For the very last time, you are wrong. Guitar Hero, Mario and Sonic, Carnival Games, and Game Party have sold a combined total of just over 6 million titles. That means there are 34 million games being sold that are not in any of those franchises. Or in other words, the vast majority of the third party software that is selling is not included in your assertion. You have accounted for less than 14% of the total games sold by the Wii in this time span.
Boom Blox was a success based on EA reports. No More Heroes sold so well at launch the developers threw a party to celebrate. It has been the best selling Suda51 game ever made, and the last one was released on the PS2! It has done so well they are making a sequel for it which I have never heard of for another Suda game.
Now you seem to want to discredit minigame collection as the same game in a different box. That is laughable. I can say Call of Duty 4 sales on the 360 doesn't count because it is Halo 3 in a different box. You may not like the genre, and you clearly know nothing about it but that does not mean it is an invalid genre. It means you are entirely ignorant on a topic you keep talking about. Go read, play, and learn about what you are attaempting to comment on so you can at least contribute something of substance rather than just spouting off what you feel should be right. Doing anything else is essentially making random comments that are in no way shape or form associated with reality, and are thus a waste of everyones time.
