Good riddance to everyone who does "core game tests."

[Kasz216]

KingArthur said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

KingArthur said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Who here, who has a Wii, can name a game that they really really enjoyed, but lost money?

The No More Heroes fans are getting a sequel. The Okami fans are getting a sequel. Where are all the diehard Deadly Creatures fans moaning about not getting a sequel?

Making a sequel does not mean that the game has made profits. It could also be that the devs are trying to recoup some of their losses by using the stuff they have already created to make a cheaper game.

Judging by your previous post I am pretty sure you would accept that if we were talking about those other consoles.

That's exactly what happened with Dead Space: Extraction.  The game had tons of advertising and didn't make money, so it got a cheap guided first-person prequel with no advertising to try to recoup its losses.  Consumers saw through that scheme and didn't buy it.  If there's never another Dead Space game, I don't think anybody's going to complain.

Suda51 poured his personality into No More Heroes, it got a cult following, and was his most successful game ever, and is getting a sequel.  When somebody pours their personality into a game on any console, everybody wins.

As I figured. HD game got a sequel because it flopped and wii game got a sequel because it was a succes.

Too bad that in dead space's case the developers could not use the stuff like engine and models they already created on original game, they had to make a new game. Which would indicate that they did not make the game because original game did not make money. Do you have any evidence suggesting that dead space did not make any profits with more than 1.5m sales?

NMH is another case. I don't know about it but I am pretty sure that game is using the same engine, models, rehashed art and so on. Which one of these games sound like a game made to recoup losses?

Funny, original dead space was an excellent game. I think a lot of people will be disappointed if there won't be a sequel. Just because you don't happen to like it does not mean everyone else agrees with you.

New Models, New art... additionally the no more hero guys said they made money, and threw a big party.

Deadspace may or may not have made money, it did underperform though, which is problematic since those funds were likely expected to recoup expenses or losses elsewhere.

HD games are like the movie industry.  Hits driven.  You need one megablockbuster so you can make back all the money you blew on the last 10.

Wii,DS and PSP games are like the indie movie industry.  Cheap, so cheap that you aren't going to break the bank, and any success is going to be big.  You can even end up with a giant blockbuster like success, like a big CGI laced movie but with much less costs.