Wii Games and Marketing: Why Third (and First) Parties Fail

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Hardcoregamer1989 said:

Joelcool7 said:

maykissthebride said:

Mad World

I dont have any idea why. This game is amazing.

 

In the end, The Conduit is doing kinda well, 300k already, No More Heroes sold enough to get a sequel. 

In the above list, you cant deny: all games sold poorly because they suck (except madworld). You cant blame a gamer for not buy Zack and Wiki: just look at the damn cover, or at the game genre, or all the terrible trial and error that last levels turn out to be.

 

No offense but I played forty minutes of MadWorld and was so bored out of my skull I returned it early to WillowVideoGames. The game was horrifically repetitive, you just killed one person after another with no real goal other then shoving things through peoples heads or ripping them to pieces!

The game blew Monkey Balls! Of course it wasn't going to sell. Not even the demographic (Hardcore gamers) are going to go out and blow 49.99$ on such a repetitive pile of crap!

i agree with that statement ... my god was it very repetitive..  the reason it got the hype was for the gore, when you get upto the boss then die, it makes you turn off the game and never play it again because it sends ya right at the begining of the level.. the game really doesnt deerve to sell good.. oh HOTD: Overkill is really good game, yes its a railshooter but the game has alot of F Bombs and humour which will keep ya playing.. most of the sega published games on wii never sell to good anyway because they suck at marketing

What!

Blasfemy! Two sinners!

madworld is great!

Yeah, it is a bit repetitive. And the originality of the game really wears thin in the first 10 minutes.

AND the boss fights really sucks. (That´s funny, because i remember No More Heroes´s boss fights as exciting - at least the latter ones)

But i loved MadWorld so much! The story wasnt anything really original, but i liked a lot too.

 

But you gotta admit that House of the Dead was a deadly flop: Playing co-op means "everybody shoots the center of the screen and wait for the credits to roll over" - not nice.

And by the way, its a on-rails shooter> I know that HOTD is a on-rails shooter series, but if they really wanted the thing to blow out, a change to third person adventure was the right way to go.