Wii games can flop - But don't blow it out of proportion...

[ClaudeLv250]

puffy said:

ClaudeLv250 said:
You have to keep in mind that these are the same forums where people gladly scream that Wii and DS are still "fads" despite destroying their competition. For this to be a sales site, facts and logic are frighteningly scarce as of late. What you've written should be common sense, but...we'll see how many people actually follow it.

What I find the most strange is that I've never really hard anyone admit to a flop on a non-Nintendo platform. Whenever something remotely anticipated hits the Wii or DS the forums and game pages are flooded with the excited screams of "FLOP FLOP SHOULDN'T HAV BEN ON NINTENDO CONSOLE FLOP FLOPZ!11" Something flops on another platform and no one bats an eyelash. Bring it up and people will refuse to acknowledge it. There was massive trolling over GTA: CW sales and that's a game that's going to sell millions. I don't think I've heard a single person talk about Resistance: Retribution's sales and this is just a few months after massive Resistance 2 hype and all this talk about how this massive franchise was going to take down Gears 2. There are countless attacks on No More Heroes despite its success and a sequel announced yet no one seems to be concerned about the future of Mirror's Edge.

I agree with this however games like lair and haze are considered flops so it's not like there are no instances at all..

 

 

Well they were "savior-class" games, it was hard to ignore them because they were the only subject. It was mostly other people pointing it out anyway. I remember the Lair meltdowns being quite epic. It was awhile before those hyping finally accepted what happened. Besides, it's not like they don't hide behind a defense. The games being bad is quite reasonable, but you never quite hear the fanboy indignation over that defense that you will over any Wii game and why it did/didn't perform a certain.

But I think the hypocrisy is quite damaging because it's this blatant obsession with Wii/DS games that's making these people oblivious to what really matters. Chinatown Wars is not a flop, never was and never will be, and yet fanboys just harp on it constantly. Meanwhile Resistance: Retribution sinks like a rock.  GTA is not going to impact the immediate future of the DS, so its success or failure isn't even as important as people make it out to be. On the other hand, Resistance: Retribution is one of Sony's first steps to reviving their dead platform outside of Japan. If this failed what does that imply for the games to follow? I think Sony's approach is flawed but no one is talking about. Where is the Resistance hype from last fall? Why are the Sony fans not supporting the PSP? No one really talks about it...