| xerostomia said: For example EA/2K makes sports games, and every year Madden etc sells millions on the Xbox and PS3, but the trend on the Wii is interesting. Madden 07 sold ~430K, Madden 08 sold ~850K, BUT madden 09 has sold even less than Madden 07 on the Wii at ~377K. This makes no sense as the games every year gets better, but more importantly the Wii userbase has dramatically gotten larger. I understand that people will not necessarily buy the new Madden every year, but the added new userbase is so much larger than 07 but why are sales of 09 worse than 07? What does this have to do with EA and its ability to publish software for the Wii? Every year Madden sells better on the Xbox and PS3 but not on the Wii? This points to the Wii as being the problem, not the EA (publishers). The problem is not with the Wii itself, but with the userbase of the Wii. Whilst Xbox/PS3 owners will rush out and buy Madden every year, Wii owners do not. 10% of Xbox people bought Madden 09, 1% on the Wii. This applies to many other games (like CoD:WaW, etc). GH:WT is doing OK on the Wii, but I really doubt it will do anywhere as good as GH III on the Wii. Sequals on the Xbox/PS3 tend to do as well if not better, while they do poorer on the Wii despite an explosion of the userbase. Even a game like Star Wars force unleased, why is the Wii half a million behind Xbox despite twice the userbase? If I was LucasArts I would be disappointed with the lack of support from the Wii userbase, thus, I will never make a Nintendo as a priority (and games are $10 cheaper than Xbox/PS3, so I make even less money per game sold). I wish there was a way to filter out total software sold for each console, and remove exclusives. One would see how abysmal 3rd party games have sold on the Wii. Even in the same time period, PS2 games probably outsold Wii thus one cannnot complain that the games are 'gimped' because of harware issues. The Wii userbase does not support 3rd party developers. |
You seem like heavily logic challenged, let me jelp you.
If Madden 08 > Madden 07, but Madden 09 < Madden 07, obviously, that means one of two things:
- the problem is with Madden 09.
- consumers had high expectations for Madden 08 after Madden 07, and were disappointed, and a lot decided that Madden games were shit after 08 edition.
So the problem is obviously with Madden, not the Wii or its userbase, as the Wii has shown it can sell lots of Madden in the past, but decided it won't buy crappy games. See? We're back to the title of this thread.
Are you a 3rd party?
Same for SW:FU.
3rd party sales are actually better on the Wii than it was on the XB360 launch aligned, so you seem fact challenged too. Especially since the Wii does not have twice the userbase of the XB360, and that the Wii userbase is new, because it's only a 2 years old console and sells to a lot of people every month.
