| Arius Dion said: I love how Jammy just ignores my first point of the game not faring much better, or better at all on any other platform. There is also no denying that Wii dev costs are way cheaper than HD costs..this is fact. Imagine if the game bombed on an HD platform...what would happen to that company? |
*looks at free radical and factor 5*
Yeah...
Anyway, if he's right that they spent $2 million to advertize the game in Japan, then that's their **** up. There is no way in hell I'd have green lighted the project if someone came to me and told me Z&W was on a budget that expected 400k sales in Japan alone for a new IP. That's just failure waiting to happen. Unless, of course, they never intended to advertise anywhere else, and then they simply blew their whole load on the wrong region. Again, Capcom's fault. By all rights Z&W should have made money, and if it didn't that is totally on Capcom's poor marketing decisions.
Also, Sven is clearly being coy with a lot of responses. When he said that about Okami sales, I think he knew full well that the game had sold ~300k WW on Wii and ~300k in US on PS2, and there is no expectation of further sales. So the port did fine 'cause a port is dirt cheap but the PS2 version sank them. They were undoubtedly expecting WW sales of 2-3 million.
You do not have the right to never be offended.
