Reggie wants Little Big Planet, Halo, Bioshock on Wii

[Nick]

fooflexible said:

konnichiwa said:

EnosStory said:

fooflexible said:
I think any system can have any game or kind of game, and I respect Sony for opening those doors, but lets face the facts Reggie is looking at commercial viability here, and he's basically saying Sony's game despite how brilliant it may be won't be nearly as successful as it could be on something like the Wii. Alot of Sony fans are not interested in it.(Please don't reply back with a, "I am!" the truth is most aren't) Yet it's the one game most Nintendo fans are jealous of. Much like Viva Pinita I respect Microsoft trying to expand their market trying to create that demand by opening up genres yet, at that point the game really didn't fit comfortably on that system and that was demonstrated by the poor sales. Loco Roco sold poorly as well. And I'm placing my bets now, LBP will also sell poorly, particularly compared to stuff like Killzone 2.

Yet even if he is right, and it does sell poorly due to being released on the ps3, then sony was still right. making this exclusive is a win/win for Sony, they either have a successful title or stopped Nintendo from having one.

 

WTF, LBP is one of the most hyped games on the official PS forums or PSU.

I agree with Enos on this one.

Ever went to a PS3 section of a forum? A lot of people are talking about it (maybe not at the moment) but they were for sure.


38 threads about LBP:

http://forums.gametrailers.com/search.php?searchid=3650614

You can't deny that their are not so many people interested in it (and yes that is the PS3 sectiion).

Don't ever go by forums to figure out something's hype, we all know people who go to forums are seriously hardcore devoted fans, and don't represent the majority. I go to tv websites and people used to talk about shows like Veronica Mars like crazy and hated stuff like CSI, yet CSI has 20 million people watching and VM was canceled with 3.5 million viewers. www.tv.com says the 3 hotest shows are(according to their sites users) Heroes, Smallville, and Prison Break. Odd because those shows aren't in the top 10 and Smallville is quite close to the bottom in ratings. Here too in the forums you find people this into their system you get people who live niche titles. But seriously do you think LBP will be a million seller? People want MGS, FF, GTA, Killzone, GOW, SOCOM, those are the bigger titles on the system I don't see these people hot to trot on LBP, in fact most gamers I know that are more on the casual side have yet to hear about this game.

Be honest what do you think LBP will sell like?

Remember around the same time Soulcalibur4, DMC4, Killzone 2, Silent Hill 5,  MGS4, GTA 4,I don't see alot of people paying attention to this nifty sidscrolling game. Don't get me wrong it looks amazing, but people will be like wow that's cool! Okay give me Killzone 2. Because the larger portion of the ps3's audience is fundementally into different stuff. 

Agreed.  Although not quite the same, Zack and Wiki shows how much something can be hyped in game forums, but not reach the regular consumer.