Davey1983 said:
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. |
There is a core market on Wii. It's referred to as the 'after market'. The people who buy the games only after they have dropped in price because they're not serious enough to sit down and play out the whole game but they might have fun with it for a while so it's a good value for them at $20 but not at $60. Also multi console owners but I already touched on that.
CoD is a pathetic example. I'm sorry. Saying the biggest name in gaming, with ZERO competition in it's field can sell a measly 1m units in a years time on a system with a base practically the size of 360's and PS3's COMBINED is not defending the Wii. It's cursing it! By that standard the only other game that could hope to break a million would be Grand Thief Auto. If CoD which will sell 10m on 360 and 6-7m on PS3 can only break 1 on Wii (even with simultaneous release and TV ads like WaW) then how can a game like RE5 which only sells about 5m on 360 hope to do more than 500k on Wii??
Wii succeeds in other areas though and massive success not possible on HD consoles are possible on Wii. Wii has more million sellers than the competition but with games like DDR, Hanna Motana, Lego, Ben Ten, Sonic, SW Clone Wars, fitness titles etc. which would never succeed on the HD consoles (at least not sell millions).
There is money to be made on Wii. TONS. But not with the old manner of thinking. Wii has a huge female base and even to this day, not one single 3rd party has figured out how to sell them what they want or even what they want. Wii has a ton of old school / PC gamers which again is underserved. HoTD:O was a good idea but making it so potty mouthed no guy can play it around their wife or kids was just dumb and another example that 3rd parties are out of touch with the Wii market.
