Gamerace on 28 January 2009
| sparkit34 said: I think that its a pity that a Vice-President of Strategic Planning & Business Development feels the need to write in the tone he does. It is as if he blames consumers for not buying these apparently brilliant games. As Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development, maybe he should not be so smug, as the failure of these apparently brilliant games does not reflect well on his performance at his current job. Lets be honest, if Nintendo (or Ubisoft or Sega) was to make Zack and Wiki or Okami, the games would have sold brilliantly and both been profitable. Not because they have the Nintendo stamp on them. But because the games would have not only been brilliant, but everything from character design, to the marketing strategy and even the development budget would be directed at appealing to a crowd that would have made the game profitable. If Capcom is unable to make a commercial hit out of a fantastic game, maybe they should stop blaming Wii owners as they have done in the past, but fire their Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development. |
While I admire you passion, you're basing that on what? All three of those companies have already had their own share of commercial failures on Wii - including Nintendo (Disaster:DoC, Captain Rainbow, Warioland Shake). Z&W was a niche genre with a kiddie appeal but adult level difficulty and a silly name. I love the game but it's likelihood of success was never good and no publisher would have had any better luck with it. Nintendo in fact distributed it in Europe...
