DICE: No successful shooters on Wii due to difficult control scheme

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Kantor said:

Phoenix_Wiight said:
well, id consider CoD WaW sucessful, almost at 1mi, might sell 2mil in its lifetime, and the conduit looks great.

other than that, really, no others have been successful because no others have been exceptionally good. that easy.

I'd hardly call 2 million successful for a current gen FPS, especially a Call of Duty. Also, I very much doubt it's going to reach 2 million. It would be lucky to get 1.5, I think.

It's currently at 2.85 million on PS3, 4.8 million on 360 and 880k on Wii. This despite the Wii having the largest install base by far.

Yeah, I agree with him. There are no phenomenally successful FPS games on Wii.

 

Call of Duty is well known among PS360-Gamers but not by Wii-Gamers. Cod3 for Wii was mediocre and the good Cod4 never made it to Wii. Cod5 on Wii is not phenomenally successfull but at any rate a successful shooter, and so are Metroid Prime and Red Steel.

And I think the production costs of the Wii Version are much lower than the PS360 Versions.

All in all it seems that Patrick Liu has not much knowledge of the Wii market or the Wii controls (which are perfect for shooter).