Riddick and Wheelman = Epic Fail in US sales? Already down to $39.99

[Strategyking92]

ItsaMii said:

Procrastinato said:
@ItsaMii:

Why would we talk about random new IP mini-successes on the Wii in this thread? You could go start a thread about how little games like NMH and Braid did really well... in a different thread. I think this one is about big licensed IP titles flopping on the HD consoles though.

 

I was just being sarcastic. There were at least 243 threads about Madworld being a failure on its first week of sales. People also seem to have unrealistic expectations for artsy, low budget or new IPs on the Wii. The (semi compared to the wii  of course) HD consoles have a respectable collection of flops and no one make a big deal of it.

1) Old IPs - Silent Hill, Golden Axe, Star Ocean, Tales (of Vesperia), Alone in the Dark, Shadowrun

2) New IPs - Conan, Lair, Haze, Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Valkyria Chronicles, Stranglehold, Fracture, Jericho, Folklore

3) Low Budget games - Bullet Witch, X-Blades, Ninja Blade, Operation Darkness, Onechanbara

There are more, these are the one I remember. Everyone is losing money on HD development (save for 4 or 5 companies with diversified investments) and all we can talk is about Z&W disappointing sales or how NMH and Madworld would do 1M + on the Xbox360 alone.

I think the real issue was Madworld being madly hyped by not just a few, but every wii fan, and that was what made it really bad. While the HD consoles had had a really stuffed past couple of years, so nobody notices the # of flops. The wii has nintendo games that sell well, and the occasinal party game (carnival games, games party, games party 2, deca sports, mario party, sports party, raving rabbids tv party.. and the list goes on.) So to see a game that differs from that formula, and being very hyped, it was naturally disapointing seeing the sales. Although if the legs of these games are anything to go by, madworld will break 1 mill.

Especially the games I have bolded, really bad examples. In fact, I would say over half of them had anti-hype, were just too niche or bad. Fracture was like all 3 of those :P And TLR sold decently, I think. Considering it's a timed xbox 360 exclusive, and shall at least make another 300k on the ps3 making it a success.