jarrod on 01 December 2009
| LordTheNightKnight said: "But when the Wii does get a "large" third party game, while it does sell very well, it doesn't match the sales of the HD versions." World At War on the Wii did not follow 4, which made the series the smash hit it is now. The Wii had a two year gap between CoD games. This is relevant because you are implying the Wii audience did this, when there are factors that would have made the game sell less on the other systems had those been duplicated. |
That's true. In fact, before Activision mishandled the series on Wii by skipping a year, COD3 sold about evenly across Wii and PS3. Who knows, if they'd have had Treyarch getting Reflex ready for release alongside MW1, maybe the current Wii COD sales would still be in line with PS3? Activision could've potentonially had another 3-4m selling SKU rather than just a 1m selling one?
The difference in how Activision and their teams handled and cultivated the audience for Guitar Hero and Call of Duty on Wii is pretty interesting...
