| jammy2211 said: Also with regard to people using Svens marketing budget figures to expected sales and whatever, I think it's a bit out of context. Zack and Wiki was intended to be a new IP, a big franchise, I addressed alot of the ideals of what this means with my post regarding Viewtiful Joe. Anyway, Capcom probably had ambitions for Zack and WIki to do on Wii what Ace Attourney did on DS. That is, lots of sequels, maybe a DS spin off. They weren't investing $2 million in advertising expecting 400k Wii sales, they were expecting it to establish a strong brand that could be successful through the whole of the Wii life - hence why they made sure the game was good, and didn't let it be some shovalware junk. I think Sven was just too pissed off to explain himself to what were mainly just bitch troll posts with little meaning. I don't know for myself and I guess it's open for interpretation, but I severely doubt, personally, Capcom invested that money expecting Zack and WIki to become the best selling third party Wii game straight off the bat. Still we see people making up guesstimate figures to try and say Capcom were in the wrong or something though...sigh. |
If you're going to pick on others for not taking Capcom's word literally, why don't you take his word on advertisement budgets literally as well? My point with the $2 million / 400k thing was to show that we can't take non-official information as gospel.I remain doubtful that we're getting the whole picture from these two Capcom reps. At least it would be good to see some recent shipment data for this game, which isn't available as far as I've seen.
It would also be nice to see how many games have had such big advertisement budgets in Japan, although that's probably not easy to come up with.
PS: Another problem with Capcom is the messy investor relations page. I've never seen a IR site with so many sections and separate sources of information.
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