SEGA says they probably won’t create more mature games for Wii, talks sales

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MaxwellGT2000 said:

ClaudeLv250 said:

kingofwale said:
was Dead Space on HD console heavily advertised?

Yes.

But I'm getting a little tired of DSE being waved around like God's Gift to Man. It's from a franchise that wasn't established, it wasn't marketed, it wasn't hyped, it's not terribly original, hell, it's not even one of the highest rated Wii games on metacritic and I often see that qualification tossed around in sales arguments. The most egregious example out of this is that DS2 was announced two months later and a Wii version was no where in sight. EA had no intention of pushing Dead Space on Wii as a serious franchise. If they were, they would have taken a similar approach to Capcom by establishing the franchise on Wii before sending out the throwaway spinoff (RE4 -> UC).

I find it particularly strange that Sega is using EA's non-efforts as a measurement as I was always under the impression that their Wii efforts sold more. Not to mention they had better reception in the community.

I think people are taking this too seriously, read the article, its a Sega studio director, its not coming from someone in the company that has anything to do with the publishment side.  Hell 2 of the 3 games that were mature Wii titles weren't even developed by Sega themselves so he especially doesn't speak for either Platinum games nor High Voltage.

Oh, I know. It's just that I'm familiar with people across several forums that will use his words to fuel their arguments regardless of this guy's credibility on the subject.

I thought SEGA, an integrated hardware and software gaming company, would understand the Wii. Apparently I was wrong.

It's been a long time since Sega understood much of anything about the market in general. Despite what the naysayers will have you believe about the Wii supposedly giving birth to and exclusively housing the phenomenon of underperforming games, the fact of the matter is that the only reason Sega went to the Wii trying to sell teh maturz is because said games on the HD consoles were constantly bombing. They got tired of bleeding money and went looking for greener pastures.