The arrogance of publishers

[Kasz216]

Squilliam said:

specialops787 said:

Squilliam said:
No its not the arrogance of publishers its the arrogance of you for presuming to tell them what to do with their money/resources.

I'm not telling them what to do with their money. I'm saying its ridiculous that they are basing the success of an entire genre on a single game. 

Also, if deadspace doesn't sell on the Wii, maybe its just because its a sub par game. Though that remains to be see. They basically threaten us to buy dead space extraction or face  the extinction of core games on the Wii (from EA at least). At least Sega is giving it a chance. If one game doesn't capture the core audience on the Wii, its not because the gamers don't want that kind of game, maybe its just not a good game. Once again, that remains to be seen.

They aren't threatening anyone, they are just being open and frank about the situation.

FPS sales are; Wii: 6.42M, Xbox 360: 53.81M

Some people claim that the Wii is the ideal FPS platform, but the market doesn't support it.

Shooter (third person + rail/arcade); Wii: 8.46M, Xbox 360 20.84M

RPG; Wii: 4.88M, Xbox 360: 19.44M

The market follows the money, and if the money isn't being made you'll see fewer releases its quite simple. If tomorrow some third party developer cracked the big one with a 5M+ selling FPS title on the Wii you'll see massive investment follow, but until that point its unlikely.

Also with less competition, poorer titles will still do better in an underserved market so you can't use the reasoning that 'if only they release good games, the sales will come'. It doesn't work that way.

 

 

Why did you put third person and rail shotoer together?

 

Is it because your arbitrary numbers game makes the 360 look horrible in regards to rail shooters and points out the main flaw of your analysis?

 

That being of course that the 360 has many many times more 1st and 3rd person shooters then the Wii.

 

Afterall 360 has 50 or so shooters.