Sega: HotD Overkill sales met expectations, MadWorld sales encouraging

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Red4ADevil said:

austin2359 said:

Only very shallow people think these games bombed.  360 and ps3 games hit their peak in the first month, but that isn't how the mass market wii operates.  It is more like the tortious than the hair.

Wii sales tend to be more evergreen. There is less enthusiasm at launch but they pick up slowly over time.

It is a different cycle because the base is bigger, even though the enthusiasm isn't there

Everyone was saying wii music bombed, and now it has sold 2 million quitely.  Madworld and overkill may have lost the sprint, but they will win the marathon.

 

This is why wii games have legs.

there's really no argument about overkill, that game has sold well and is gonna have legs.  Price drops will help, it's a light gun game after all.  You can argue that madworld won't have good legs but all successful 3rd party games on wii have had good legs and that includes all the games for core gamers.  No 3rd party games on wii have been front loaded, some have just not some well from the beginning (excluding japan).  I dunno what Sega is looking for but you still have to wait to make judgement about madworld sales.