capcom not happy with darkside chronicles sales, mh3 + hardcore games talk

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Davey1983 said:

Gamerace said:
I agree. The core gamers on Wii have moved on to HD where all the Core games are. They may have a Wii but they'll buy NSMBW over RE:DC for Wii. Why wouldn't they? They have RE5.

I do believe '09 will be the death of 'core' games on Wii. None have sold impressive numbers and it's just easier for publishers to focus on the core market on HD where their core games sell rather than try to adapt them to a relatively unknown expanded audience on Wii.

To create mass success on Wii will require a radically new way of thinking for most publishers and developers. I just hope some are up to the challenge, because HD development is a losing game.

I disagree with this.  I don't buy the idea that so- called 'core' gamers have left the Wii audience.  Name one third party 'core' (I hate that term, by the way) title that was released only on the Wii that would have sold well on the HD twins. 

I can't think of one either.

 

This is the old blame the audience tatic (and usually done by companies before they go out of business).  If third parties would release good games on the Wii they will sell.  Resident Evil 4, despite being a port of an old game, sold over a million copies.  What I find interesting is that on-rail shooters are now considered 'core' titles.  Really?  Port over Resident Evil 5 with RE4 controls and I would bet that the game would get over a million sales easily.  Want Dead Space to sell on the Wii?  Create an actual third person shooter, remove the ridiculous amount of cut scenes, and it would have gotten many more sales (sorry, nobody bought the 'directed first person experience' lie EA tried shoveling). 

Nintendo has released some so-called core games, and all of them have done well (not system mover well, but well enough that sequels are coming or being talked about).  Punch-Out is nearing 1 million, Metroid Prime 3 sold a million, Galaxy has sold 8 million. 

Let's look at other good 'core' games that have released on the Wii:  COD:WaW has sold over a million, and COD:MWR is on track to sell a million. 

Sorry, but this idea that the Wii is 'only for families', and that 'core gamers have moved onto the HD twins' is complete BS that third parties have come up with to not take the Wii seriously (why when Resident Evil 4 and RE:DC both sold over a million that only more Rail shooters were made?-- Why didn't some third party also make more third person shooters?  It is because third parties do not want to take the Wii seriously.  It has nothing to do with 'the audience'-- the audience has already shown that they want games like Resident Evil 4!).  If Red Steel 2 and MH3 both end up being good titles, and they bomb on the Wii, then I might start to believe this argument. 

To elaborate here, no one in their right mind would tell me that Darkside Chronicles, as it is packaged today, with prettier (HD) graphics, would be lighting up the sales chart on 360/PS3. Because it is not what the majority of gamers want. Imagine if after Wii gets Monster Hunter Tri, the HD twins get Monster Hunter Tri: Swords (a total rail shooter rip-off like Dragon Quest: Swords). Does anyone in here think the game would set the sales charts aflame? Fuck no.