BengaBenga on 18 November 2008
| mrstickball said: ...So 450,000 and 360,000 units (Z&W then NMH) are considered major 3rd party successes? I was just using 2 of the better-reviewed games that had sub-par sales on the Wii. If both were successes, what about the PS3/X360 games that had similar reviews (80%+) that managed to sell millions like Dead Rising, or Saints Row? Could also go with: Madden 09 (360,000) de Blob (200,000) Fifa 09 (190,000) Geometry Wars: Galaxies (70,000) Trauma Center: New Blood (150,000 + PAL) Just for a few of the higher rated 3rd party games in the Wii library that didn't perform too well for sales. |
Dude, you're really overdoing it now.
Success is determined by a combination of the cost of the game to develop+publish it and its sales.
On average we can say that Wii games are at least 3 times cheaper to produce, so that alone would make Z&W sales compare to a 1.3 million selling HD game in profits. And both Z&W and NMH hardly saw any advertising. Plus these games are niche.
I don't have to tell you that advertising can go into the millions for the high budget HD games.
