| sc94597 said: I believe I specifically said that you were right about Nintendo having a fan base that will buy just about anything from them. I doubt the people who bought Endless Ocean were part of that fanbase though. Oh and YES I do say that Madworld is more niche than Endless Ocean. I remember a few months ago I was playing the game, and my brother said the game would be better if it wasn't in black and white. I told him that one of the main selling points was that it WAS that it was black and white, and he said that it was stupid that they made it that way. Now he is the so called "hardcore" that plays CoD and Halo only, with a little guitar hero on the side, so I don't know if he counts. Also you still didn't answer any of my questions. Would these games do better on the 360 or PS3? Name me some big series 3rd party games on the Wii. The only answer is that these titles are Niche. Why else would other 3rd party games like Resident Evil 4 and Umbrella Chronicles(both part of a big series, and one is a port the other a spinoff) outsell them? Also to be honest, Nintendo has proven themselves to the Wii audiences(other wise they wouldn't own a Nintendo console) 3rd parties haven't. It is quite obvious there would be a bias toward the company players bought the console for. Just look at the bias toward Bungie and Epic games on the 360. What about Kojima, Insomniac or Naughty Dog games on the playstation. It might not be as big as Nintendo made theirs, but it is still there. To be honest, if these publishers were as big as Nintendo, I have no doubt that they would have the same amount of control.
@Gansito I am not doubting that the 360 has niche titles, I'm saying it has many more mainstream ones than the Wii. I'm also saying that niche titles, unless they have a big publisher to back them up, don't sell well on any platform. Let me note this aswell, at least half those games you mentioned bigger than almost all the Wii's "core" third party games. |
Call of Duty: World at War. The game is more or as popular as anything on the 360 and PS3. It's moderately successful on the Wii. It can't be described as niche. Now give me the explanation as to why it couldn't capture the same sales magic without using differences in the demographic that wants the game, since that's my excuse.
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