Capcom: Making hardcore games for Wii is an obvious risk. M games dont sell

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RPGJock said:

Capcom knows it a risk but they also know there are successes when you can find the right formula. They found that for RE series of games but Dead Rising didn't work. And the RE games have been mostly remakes and not much investment and time needs to be put into them as say a new IP built from the ground up.

Let me state it again. The Wii, for better or worse, has a large family friendly audience. M rated games may sell to the core but unfortunately, there are more families that own a Wii then the lone core gamer. If I am a company trying to sell to the majority of the userbase, looking for that 5-10% attach rate, I have to look at the games that have done it in the past. That is why you are getting a RE-Wii remake, a Dead Space on Rail shooter, and probably a Wii Modern Warfare 2. But that is also why you are getting Punch Out, Wii Sports Resort, EA Active Fitness, and Beatles: Rock Band. Because they are going after the large part of the userbase.

 

Dead Rising didn't work because it was absolute trash. They hacked that game to so much crap that no one wanted it. You cannot tell me that if RE5 (a mature game) would have come out when the other systems did that it would not suceed. RE4 Wii is one of the best games on the system due to the controls (a port its sad but it worked great).

And fi you honestly look back how many M games on the Wii have been AAA titles? like 0. Look at Nintendo core AAA games they have sold to the core just fine.

 

 It is getting punc out because it is a Nintendo Core Franchise, nothing to do at aiming at families.