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txrattlesnake on 17 June 2009
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routsounmanman said:
txrattlesnake said:
As to whose fault this situation is, I think there's quite a bit of it to go around. First off its not on the makers of these games or on the games themselves as they are some of the best games on the system and much better than games that have many times their sales. Its partly on Nintendo for releasing a console that has used the blue ocean strategy to attract so many gamers to their system that really had no interest in gaming before with the Wii series games. And then, it is on many of these blue ocean gamers that only want things like Wii Sports, etc, and have put things like Wii Fit over 20 million in sales while a game like Mario Galaxy hasn't even broken 10 million.

And, lastly its on many gamers that claim to be core gamers on Wii yet spend so much time trying to build up the virtues of things like Wii Sports and Wii Fit. Apparently, the "core gamers" on Wii, if that's what they really are, aren't buying these games either.

If even half the Wii install base is hardcore, we're talking about a whooping low cost 25 million people here. And really, there's no excuse anymore. If all people owning a Wii are casuals, who bought SSBB, SMG, MP3, RE4, RE:UC, and many more?

Even during a very dissapointing 2008 on Nintendo's part (well 2nd half of 2008 actually), 3rd parties wandered off in the horizon, completely missing the train.

Also, how does it seem to you that after 3 years into the system's life, NOT 1 huge-budget, well known IP has been released on the platform by 3rd parties??? Noone is even trying!


Actually, of the games you mention only SSBB and SMG had very good sales (but much smaller than Wii Fit, Wii Play, and Wii Sports).  While (I think) that MP3 and the RE games have still failed to sell  2 million copies (while Wii Music has) and they have sold far less than similar games on the other consoles that have sold  20,000,000 to 30,000,000 fewer units.

For example, Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles has sold 1.28 million copies and RE4 Wii Edition has sold 1.57 million copies on Wii while RE5 has sold over 2 million copies on both the PS3 and 360 (4.37 million combined).