Dead Rising Wii flops in Japan, no reviews yet. Does Capcom know it's crap?

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Ail said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
The 360 version sold better overseas than in Japan. They don't take well to sandbox games there. And Capcom didn't expect it to sell a lot, or else they would have shipped more.

Plus this is a WII GAME. Why do you people ALWAYS FORGET you can't use opening sales?

Now the game could still sell poorly (as Okami unfortunately did), but claiming it dead on the first day?

I don't care if you hate it. That's outright ignorance of a pattern that has shown up again and again.

 

There is a track record of Wii titles not published by Nintendo having legs in Japan ?

Now that's new information....

 

Heck the so called legs for most Wii titles ( outside of the 4 Wii big titles) is usually just new Wii buyers purchasing games with their hardware purchase, issue is when you sell 400k Wii a week, even if only 10% of them gets CoD:WaW or Carnival games that's 40k sales for those.

Problem is that with 20k sales a week in Japan, if 10% of the new owners buy a game, that is not even going to make a blip on the sales radar.........

 

Ail's right. Japan's Wii software sales have been the most front-loaded of any region. The only third party game I can think of which pulled  off a long tail is Taiko Drum Master.