This is a long old thread and im not finished reading it all yet, but im hearing lots on cod reflex, and thought id jutt in with a point.
Cod is selling really well at the moment because it has a number of HUGE factors against it:
1) its two years old.
2) on the same day, its sequel was released for the other consoles.
3) a large proportion of the demographic interested in it have already played it and/or have the sequel
4) it had no marketing, not even banners on the net...because...
5) it was stealth released under the shadow of the sequel, so was unoticed by all expect wii only owners.
(you may argue that this would help it sell, but the first few weeks figures were hardly impressive, but picked up since the furor died down, so in theory it could have helped, in practice it didnt)
But it will top a million by a fair way and perform really well, despite the above.
so, that begs a question:
If this had been release at the time, when it was new and the wii still had an active core market, (metroid, RE4, Red steel, RE:UC, all sold their millions around this time period), how much would it have sold then?
double? Triple?
easily.
how much would MW2 wii have sold if the above had happened? probably double or triple MW1 has recently too.
so i wonder why the 3 huge publishers, EA, SEGA and Capcom are all missing this - there is so much more meaning in the performance of MW wii than you think.
Either way, rail shooters, self destructive devs/pubs, RE5, MW, core audiences aside....these are dark time for a core wii man.
i hope MW, MH3 and NMH2 give them more faith.
however, if they have a break in developing now, then 2011 will be third party core empty, just like 2008 was, and that truely will be the end of the core wii market.
it amazes me how they will make the same mistake again and create their own graves.
it was their own lack of core development which lost the wii its core audience, then they suffer the consequences, and then do it again just when they start making headway!
they are always one step behind the market, and operate without any long term strategy on the wii.
i wonder how they survive at all as businesses the way they think and carry on.
bah. rant over.
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