Nintendo and Ubisoft only companies making money on Wii

[youjiro]

Gamerace said:
@ The - I don't think there's any question that most core gamers own an HD system and even if they do own a Wii they'd rather play the same game in HD.

So it's no surprise games sell better on HD consoles. Especially when the Wii version is gimped in more than just graphics. CoDWaW is missing modes and vehicles on Wii (although still a strong performance), Lara Croft was even reported broken and unplayable on Wii due to a bug on some copies.

However, that's different than saying that those games can't also be successful on Wii.

Wii sales are more based on legs than 1st week sales so it's too early to call - Madworld, HoTD:O, Dead Rising - they might all still be successful long term

1/4m for Lara Croft is enough to justify it's existence (it's making money)
1m for CoDWaW is very profitable for Activision. No complaints there.

PES09 - That is YOUR err. It launched on Wii 6 months after the HD consoles. That is to say last week. So your comparing 1 week (in NA) to 6 months ww.

RE games - Only the first two were released ww and are both very successful. As successful as HD? No. Profitable? Hell yeah.

Z&W, DC, CJ, Tenchu 4 were all bombs. Probably losing money. Too bad but that's hardly unique to Wii. Many games on HD systems have had better sales and lost even greater amounts still. Which explains why 80% of 3rd parties are losing money.

I was going to correct The as well but you've done it for me!

 

I was especially going to point out PES2009 wii... it just launched here this week i think, a similar situation with what happend with the 2008 version, and i remember reading somewhere that it sold a really good amount considering it was six months late (VGchartz does not have this data however).

 

Wii is about legs and not about being front loaded... check the million sellers list, the amount of games that were realeased almost a year ago are now creeping past million units