NinjaKido on 07 April 2009
| KylieDog said: First off, the Wii has more shovelware as a percentage of its games than any previous console. Second, even with the shovelware on other consoles (PS2 as an example) the shelves still had dedicated sections to proper games. The Wii doesn't. I can go into a store even still today and the PS2 section has a clear area for the high budget games, even games years old. I go to the Wii section and besides a few Nintendo games the like of No More Heroes, Metroid Prime 3, Resident Evil aren't on the shelves, or at best there is one copy tucked away behind the 10th copy of shovelware somewhere. The only people these games are selling to are the people who already know they want to buy that game before they go into the store and who will mostly likely just ask at the counter instead of digging up the display box. For the people who just want to browse and randomly buy a game these games have no chance. My local stores don't even put these sorts of games on the shelf until the sales die down, then its just the single copy. It is probably more profitable selling shovelware anyway, I would imagine there is a reason Nintendo games that have near stopped selling are still full price everywhere, probably costs retrailers more for those games than for shovelware games, yet can sell a lot of shovelware full price, making more money. |
Basicaly your saying shovelware is perofrming well because of the arrangement of the games , you then compare it to last gen . Couldn't it be that consumer tastes have changed and that the retail sector is responding to this change ? the Wii expands the demographic the PS2 held and with that comes change , consumer criteria has changed.
Stop attributing shovelware's good performance to shelf space and start recognising it's what the consumer may want.
