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Zucas on 08 December 2009
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Soriku said:
Zucas said:
Well I think most agree that Heavy Rain is a tougher sale but also Heavy Rain has been hyped for a couple of years now. Epic Mickey has had a GI cover and some talk before it about its existence. If that continues, Heavy Rain will easily crush its sales due to lack of hyping and marketing for the other. Of course I would hope Disney would market it as a big game on Wii, but given track record of Wii games before this, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.


For now I'm going to go with Heavy Rain, but as for potential, the potential of sales for Epic Mickey exceeds that of Heavy Rain but its just whether or not Disney wants to pursue those. Considering I'm still picking Heavy Rain, shows you how much faith I actually have in them haha.

 

I don't think you know this but they already stated that Epic Mickey is a big deal for the entire company and such. They're going to market it loads, this isn't a niche game.

Oh wii games get told that all the time haha.  But does it actually happen?  Not usually.  Really looking over 3rd party offerings on the Wii, there are very few I can comment on and say they had a well oiled and functioning hype/marketing machine.  Best one so far has been Monster Hunter 3 and it achieved awesome sales because of it.  Hopefully they'll carry that same marketing campaign to the west.  Others include Call of Duty: World at War (well over a million in sales), Red Steel (one of Wii's biggest launch titles), every Guitar Hero game (of course those were multiplay advertising), the Lego games (one again multiplat advertising), EA Sports Active (well over 2 million and ever growing), Mario and Sonic games (of course could be seen as first party game as well), and a few more that I'm probably forgetting.

 

Now look at these games.  All huge successes.  Wii games are no different than that of 360, PS3, PC, PSP, DS, etc.  For a videogame to be successful the advertising needs to sell it.  You rarely ever sell a game off of its own merit of existing (that's why Halo and Mario are still advertised along with popular brand such as Coke and Windows).  Most Wii games just dont' get that level of advertising while PS360 games and a few DS games do.  Could even throw PSP in that category as well.  As I've said numerous time sover, if Wii were to get the level of advertising as PS360 games (and the level of big brands) well over a 100 Wii games would have easily sold a million copies by now. 

Now when it comes to Epic Mickey, they are saying they are going to give it the advertising of a big game, but how many times have Wii games been told this and they not fulfill it.  Now they did get first entry through a GI cover so that's a start but I'm still skeptical and for good reason.  I hope Disney Interactive treats this like a huge game on the Wii but I hold my doubts.  I'll wait for E3 to see how they advertise this game.  I hope they collaborate with Ninty to get that as a frontrunner at their conference.