| Squilliam said: 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.
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I'm not saying there is or isn't a market for these on the Wii. We just don't know yet.
As for the numbers, I'm sure there are a lot less of all those categories except rail shooters (which i would be interested to see those numbers separated from 3rd person) on the Wii. Seeing how every other game on PS360 and PC are FPS it makes sense that those numbers would be so high. But just because 'casual' titles are non-existent on PS360 doesn't mean they wouldn't sell well if they were done right.
The only non-call of duty/metal of honor FPS on Wii I know of is the conduit. That game currently has a rating of 69 on metacritic. You can't say it didn't sell up to its hype just because there wasn't a market for it. Thankfully High Voltage and Sega aren't giving up on Wii despite less than stellar performance. The surface of the core market on Wii is just barely being scratched now, so IN MY OPINION its a little early to give up, or release a title that is suppose to make or break the core offerings on Wii.
Like I said before, thankfully Sega and HV aren't as pessimistic. But, obviously if these next couple of games don't fare well, I don't expect them to keep making core Wii games just for me, since obviously yall don't want any. I have a 360 and PC too, so I'll live.
EDIT: There's also red steel, but i can confidently say they didn't sell well (it did sell over a million) because it was sub par. Hopefully 2 is better.
