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drboot on 17 February 2009
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Viper1 said:
drboot said:
alfredofroylan said:
 saicho said:
uh... Onechanbara:Bikini Zombie Slayers is being used as a barometer by other publishers?

 

Dear my ... of course no. BTW is funny how people still think on games bombing on the Wii just for the first week after this:

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=25319&region=All

And this:

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=23991&region=All

and some others

 

 

Quite funny that you bring up WaW as some kind of example of a success story, when the the HD versions sold many multiple times as much as the Wii version on an identical install base. I wouldn't consider that very good...

*sigh* 

CoD:WaW launched to just 62k units.   It's at 880k now and still selling very well.   The fact the HD versions have sold more is irrelevant.  The point was to show that poor launch numbers don't mean anything on Wii.

 

It's not irrelevant. If a developer sees that one console with by far the largest userbase is only contributing a very small fraction of the sales, why should they even bother to create new IP's or even sequels for the system? Just because Wii sales are rising, don't make them good by any stretch of the immagination when talking about a huge franchise like CoD that has no issues selling 10 million plus on HD systems. Just because you got a 10 dollar pay raise on your 200 weekly salary doesn't make you affluent by anybody's standards. When you start at nothing, everything looks like a lot. In reality, CoD WAW Wii sales are still horrible next to the HD versions.