High Voltage: The Conduit wont suffer Madworld sales fate

[LordMatrix]

intro94 said:

LordMatrix said:

Million said:

The highest selling FPS game on the Wii is Metroid Prime 3 ,1.53 Million sales , A more recent addition is Call Of Duty 5 which sold 1.17 Million.

Here are some considerations , to put this to rest...

-Metroid Prime Series & Call Of Duty are both very well recognised franchises , mabe COD moreso to the general consumer.
-Call Of Duty sold 5.46 Million on the 360 (more than 2X the Wii)with about 60% of the Wii's install base
-There's nothing about the Conduit that apears to apeal to the Wii Fit , Wii Play type demographic , this game is clearly aimed at the traditional gamer.
-Assuming that Conduit has as much as 50% the success Call Of Duty 5's success it will only sell around 550k

I think alot of Wii fans will be shocked/disapointed by the result.

 

If Call of Duty World at War barely broke a million sales on Wii I doubt an unproven franchise by a not so well known developer will sell huge. I persoanlly am looking forward to this game being a huge shooter fan but I don't see this being popular with general consumers. This is a core gamers game and just because it is a Teen rating doesn't mean much maybe a few extra sales but Mature and Teen games have hitorically done well with core gamers for years. I am more concerned about Red Steel 2 because it requires motion plus to play and I think that was a stupid move on Ubisoft's end and will hurt the games sales tremendously. They should have made it optional instead.

Actually COD broke rather quickly the million barrier ,faster than most wii games released.Thats healthy sign. Not only that, the game multiplayer was weaker and had no wiispeak than TC will. Adding insult to injury, the wii got the leftovers of the ps3 ,360 AND PC and still sold so well in less than a year. ADDING more, the game is Teen!.

So Pros of WAW> known IP

Pros of The conduit> hyped

better visuals

exclusive!!

teen market included

Wiispeak

better online features

better graphics

And you really think that at very least TC wont match a mature game sales?i highly, HIGHLY doubt it.Another brutal example, Madworld, mature, more of a niche market than FPS(brawlers ffs!), less publicity, less hype,less general interest.It still had similar initial sales than WAW(so far).Almost 200k more or less. Conduit will probably sell thrice than that in 3 months(600k ish range),which is pretty darn good.Heck, it will get to the million faster than WAW most likely.Gamers that purchased WAW are very very prone to get a better game,by pure logic.Fans or FPS tend to be savy enough to spread awareness by word of mouth and the internet. Heck, Red steel was a horrible fps a brand ip without online and it broke the million sales. Nah, Is a sure win for HV.

 

IDC that it is Teen that will only give it a few extra sales perhaps. Where do I even say that I don't think a Teen game can match a Mature one in sales btw? Healthy sales for a Call of Duty game barely reaching a million is terrible. That is also an established franchise that  has had it's last 2 games sell 5 plus million on 360 alone too tired to check PS3 right now might edit later. Now take The Conduit it is a new ip on a system that isn't well know for good shooters to begin with and is not aimed at the casual/mainstream market those are both reasons as to why I am beign a little cautious about jsut how well this will sell. No hate on the game either because I will guarantee you I will be getting it on day one. I want to be optimistic here but seriously lets get real this game will probably not make more than 600 thousand in sales. As far as shooters go the game looks a bit average but I want a good shooter on my Wii and am craving a new FPS on any system at the moment. In fact The Conduit and Red steel 2 are 2 of my most wanted Wii games this year. Will The Conduit be fun?  Will it sell a ton of copies? Will it become the Wii's staple shooter series? Who knows... we will just have to find out.