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Gamerace on 03 February 2009
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HappySqurriel said:
Legend11 said:
HappySqurriel said:
dsister44 said:
Soriku said:
dsister44 said:
im thinking that they have to get about 5-6 million by the first year

 

Umm...yeah, no.

Conduit needs to get to 1 mil+ fast. Mad World IDK...originally Clover hasn't made any best selling games.

 

 

y make a expensive game that sells only a million when u can make a bunch of crap mini games 4 cheap and get 5-6million sells

Why spend $100 Million to make Grand Theft Auto 4 when you can make 100+ bewjewled clones?

The answer to your question is that the market for mini games on the Wii is pretty close to being fully saturated, and further investment towards those games is unlikely to provide a healthy return.

 


The 360 has been saturated with FPS games since the system was released and yet there are still a pile of them coming this year and next.  The same can be said for the Wii, publishers will make what sells on the system and regardless of the claims of some people, casual games are selling a lot on the system (take a look at this week's UK charts for example).

 

According to the Game database on this site 35 First person shooter games have been released for the XBox 360 since it was released, which is (roughly) 1 game per month and only 1/2 of those games have sold more than 500,000 copies.The XBox 360 is (probably) the highest concentration of the most dedicated FPS fans and it has difficulty supporting a FPS release every month. How likely is it that the Wii could support multiple mini-game collections being released in a month?

The fact is that if a game is the 4th best game (or worse) in a particular genre being released in a year the potential for great sales is limited because (no matter how dedicated the fanbase is) there is only so much demand for a particular genre. With that in mind, if you're going to produce additional mini-game collections your sales would probably be far better if you targeted the PS3 or XBox 360 because your game is far more likely to stand out.

I have to agree with that and so do sales.  A lot of min-game collections came out for Wii for the '08 holiday season but only one of those (Guiness Book of World Records) sold well and it was well reviewed.  All the rest bombed miserably (Circus Games, Movie Games, Baby Partyz, etc.) so it seems mini-game collections have outworn their welcome on Wii unless they are of good quality.   Meanwhile De Blob, Shaun White and CoDWaW all sold well (CodWaW was constantly sold out).   So it's time publishers starting looking for other genre's or make high quality mini-game collections if they hope to succeed.