Kantor said:
Gamerace said:
I was watching my son play the demo (which he loves) on 360 but it's a shame the game has totally and completely bombed on the HD systems. My son will definately pick it up but he's in no hurry and can wait 6-12 months to pick up for $10-$20.
It occured to me this game would have had a lot better chance of success of Wii for the following reasons:
1) More retro/older gamers on Wii would probably remember Bionic Commando
2) Virtually no FPS competition. Look at all the hype and presales for The Conduit which is an a vanilla a FPS as you can get (without Wii controls). If Wii owners are excited about a vanillia FPS from a no-name developer like HVS, how much more excitement would a unique, FPS from Capcom have?
3) It wouldn't sell gangbusters on Wii either but the development cost would be 1/2 - 1/4 of on the HD systems. So 500k would easily clear a profit and that would be virtually guaranteed on Wii. Whereas BC now needs close to 1m in sales between the HD systems - something that will clearly never happen.
4) Wii owners might be more inclined to get the unique gameplay of BC a try, whereas is appears HD gamers would rather stick to the formula they know.
5) BC could easily be dropped to a T rating for Wii audiences as well further enhancing sales without sacrificing any element of the gameplay. But even maintaining it's M rating it should be able to reach the same 1m that Red Steel and CoD3, CoDWaW enjoy.
Thoughts?
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1) What makes you think Wii owners are older on average than PS360 owners?
2) Bionic Commando isn't an FPS.
3) Agreed- 500k would make a profit
4) How many unique games on Wii sell well? Look at MadWorld, for example. Wii Fit is pretty unique, but in a different kind of way.
5) No it wouldn't. Red Steel was a launch title, and CoD is a very large series.
It wouldn't do any better on Wii, to be honest.
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Hmmm... Some very good responses here in this thread like this one (some lousy ones too). I think I've been proven wrong in my assumptions.
I do think the Wii fans would hype it more since theres so few quality titles of this nature on Wii but end sales would probably end up about the same.
