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HappySqurriel on 20 March 2009
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BTFeather55 said:
mike_intellivision said:
BTFeather55 said:
Yeah, it means that developers might want to try to shovel more shovelware on the console instead of new ips in traditional genres. Wii owners are to blame. There are close to 50 million of you don't you want more good games on your system are are you really satisfied with bland products like Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Music, and Wii Fit?

 

Could you please explain the logic used to jump to that conclusion?

For example, not one game in the Petz series (which is often held up as a sign that Ubisoft has decided to go the shovelware route) sold 20k in the first week. Many of those games ended up with lifetime sales of 300k-400k.

If Madworld has anything close to that kind of multiplier, it will exceed 800k in NA alone.

 

Mike from Morgantown

 

 

 

A game like Madworld should outsell a game like Carnival Games just as a game like Mario Galaxy should outsell a game like Wii Fit or Wii Play, but games in traditional genres aren't selling as they should on the Wii which could make more developers interested in embracing the Wii's expanded audience with their development rather than core gamers. Look at Nintendo's E3 last year. Was their a new Kid Icarus announced? No, Animal Crossing (which walks the line between the two groups) and Wii Music (totally for the expanded audience) were the games Nintendo announced.

There's a reason the Japanese haven't been buying Wiis lately while PS3s and games like Yakuza 3 and RE 5 have, and I think it is because they don't like these expanded market games that much.

 

Why should those games sell better?

While you may not approve of Carnivale Games or Wii Fit these games have a much broader appeal, are in a less competitive market segment, and appeal to people who are currently not being heavily marketed to.

To put it another way, just because (from a critical perspective) Transformers (or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Chrystal Skull) was an awful movie does not mean that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button should have done better than it at the box office.