| h2dk said: you really want to use gamerankings for the basis of your argument? cause I'm sure everyone that bought Madden looked at the reviews first (as if 77.5 were bad) right? What about the "revolutionary" controls? Rayman 76.5 Wii Sports 76.4 Elebits 75.4 Excite Truck 75.0 Big Brain Acedemy 70.0 Red Steel 65.0 Mario Party 8 64.0 Cooking Mama 62.0 Wii Play 60.2 Pokemon Battle Revolution 57.1
How do you explain the sales of those then? If 77.5 is bad, then some of these are pure crap. I say because none of them are targeted at the 360 demographic, i.e. they are targeted at a younger audience (yes, I know, lots of adults buy and play them, blah, blah, blah...) Which brings me back to my original point in this whole discussion...a larger percentage of 360 owners have disposable income to throw at games, where as a good chunk of the Wii's targeted market doesn't have an income. Therefore "true" software sales (i.e. not "freebies") will continue to be led by the 360 until the Wii has a significant install base lead (at least twice). (And I don't want to hear how the 360 has more consoles on the market, etc. If you take off Wii Play and Wii Sports, the PS2 is outselling the Wii in software, yet being dominated by the 360) The Darkness and Stranglehold are not 360 exclusives and are "just another fps", yet still selling as much or more than most Wii 3rd party games. Viva Pinata was targeted for the "nintendo" market, hence it's flop on the 360 (hello DS) Oh, and Burnout: Revenge? Please, that made nothing but money for EA. It was out on the Xbox months before the 360...380,000 units purchased, most probably for a second time...
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I'll let Naz respond to the bulk of this since it is his discussion, but I don't think Naz is saying that 77.5 is bad at all. I think he is saying when you have two supposedly identical games with reviews that are that far apart that most people are going to go for the better reviewed one. And it isn't that surprising that the version reviewed better does well when you consider a much larger install base in the market in question.
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