| bugrimmar said: third parties aren't supporting the wii coz most of their action/rpg/strategy ips are made for core gamers. yknow, gamers who actually play games long. the wii's user base is primarily casual. they play the waggle nintendo things for party kicks and whatnot. so when you see call of duty flop like hell on the wii, you understand why: there are very few core gamers who buy games for the wii. so third parties have no choice but to go to the 360 and the PS3 because the wii's audience just simply doesn't buy their established ips. you think that metal gear would sell on the wii? no way. the casuals wouldn't even understand what it is. in the end of it all, its basically because the third parties cannot let go of their established ips. they aren't willing to make shovelware for the wii, and prefer to make blockbuster AAA titles for the core gamer for varied reasons (if you ask Kojima, he said it is his duty. whatever). i think we need to be thankful for that. |
Believe what you want about the lack of core gamers on Wii. Don't look at Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return as they soon turn Platinum (1m) and a few other games that soon will turn Gold (500k), it might burn your eyes (not really, but still).
And let's look at all the Xbox 360 games I found in the database:
11/17/05 - 2.27m - Call of Duty 2
11/17/05 - 1.45m - Perfect Dark Zero
11/18/05 - 0.29m - Quake 4
03/28/06 - 0.22m - Far Cry: Instincts Predator (missing others sales)
04/11/06 - 0.44m - Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (missing others sales)
07/10/06 - 0.27m - Prey (missing others sales)
10/31/06 - 0.61m - F.e.a.r
03/06/07 - 1.46m - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
06/07/07 - 0.24m - Call of Juarez
06/25/07 - 0.53m - The Darkness
06/25/07 - 0.11m - Hour of Victory
08/21/07 - 2.12m - Bioshock
09/25/07 - 8.60m - Halo 3
11/06/07 - 2.18m - Call of Duty 3
10/10/07 - 0.83m - The Orange Box
11/05/07 - 6.72m - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
11/13/07 - 0.13m - Soldier of Fortune: Payback (missing others sales)
02/05/08 - 0.75m - Turok
02/12/08 - 0.11m - Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Elements (missing others sales)
02/26/08 - 0.49m - Frontlines: Fuel of War
03/11/08 - 0.61m - Condemned 2: Bloodshot
05/27/08 - 0.29m - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
06/23/08 - 1.06m - Battlefield: Bad Company
07/07/08 - 0.40m - Unreal Tournament III
08/31/08 - 0.67m - Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
10/21/08 - 0.68m - Far Cry 2
11/04/08 - 0.42m - 007: Quantum of Solace
11/04/08 - 0.02m - Spark Unlimited
11/11/08 - 2.69m - Call of Duty: World at War
11/17/08 - 0.65m - Left 4 Dead
Of 30 games, 9 has sold over 1m as of yet, 21 has not. At least one more game will turn Platinum. Not so good for a hardcore powerhouse, I think.
Now have a look at Wii (all FPS games I could find again):
11/14/06 - 0.58m - Call of Duty 3 (missing others sales)
11/19/06 - 1.07m - Red Steel
12/12/06 - 0.07m - Far Cry Vengeance
08/27/07 - 1.45m - Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (FPS like at least)
11/13/07 - 0.25m - Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (missing others sales)
09/23/08 - 0.02m - Brothers in Arms: Double Time (missing others sales)
11/04/08 - 0.17m - 007: Quantum of Solace
11/11/08 - 0.20m - Call of Duty: World at War
Of 8 games, 2 has sold over 1m, if we take away Metroid Prime 3, 1 has.
In my mind, I actually think that Xbox 360 has not done that much better then Wii with FPS games. More games has been released on Xbox 360, it has had one extra year to build up a core audience, developers has taken chances with Xbox 360 from the beginning without taking a pause, not so with Wii.
Why would people with more then one current gen console or someone Who wants Call of Duty and a HD console buy a gimped Wii version of the game? Some single platform Wii gamers don't even want to touch the Wii version of multiplat FPS games. Lots of FPS games is also absent from Wii, so no looking at sales there. With The Conduit, Red Steel 2 and the next Call of Duty on Wii, we might see a nice uprising on FPS Wii sales, I think.
And yeah, I don't think Wii FPS games would sell crazy like as they do on Xbox 360 if they did good. I mostly just look at if a game has sold over 1m, or not. Going more on topic, how many games of the FPS games on Xbox 360 that does not sell over 1m makes profit?
To me it looks like publishers if overflooding Xbox 360 with more games then sustainable. Making fewer titles might lead to less titles flopping in sales as the sales wont be spread thin between lots of gamers, if there is less games out there.
(There is possibility of any kind of wrong in my lists of games.)
