Bruno Muñoz on 18 August 2009
I need a list of AAA third party titles that have sold bad on Wii.
My theory is that with a few exceptions third party games do sell much better than they deserve.
Most core Wii owners who care about shooter games other than Metroid already own an Xbox 360 (to play Halo or Gears), or own a PS3 (to play Resistance or Killzone). So when a game like The Conduit comes out on the Wii, these core gamers are making a comparison to Halo or Killzone, and are deciding accordingly. High Voltage did a decent job with The Conduit, especially given the graphic limitations of the Wii, but the game didn’t look and feel as good as games like Halo or Killzone, and if a gamer had both a Wii and either a PS3 or Xbox 360, it’s easy to see why they would pass on The Conduit in favor of a hard core game on one of the other platforms.
This point is very logical, but honestly The Conduit is a mediocre game that would have bombed badly on the other systems, for example The Conduit has managed to sell better than The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
