| Bruno Muñoz B said: Capcom has a big problem, historically their mid-tier games tend to bomb hard not only on Wii but on Gamecube, Xbox and of course PS2 too. It is also true that there has been two great exceptions in this generation, Lost Planet and Dead Rising, they sold really well though they got some advertising. |
Lost Planet alone had a $20m advertising budget iirc, though that was rumored to be Microsoft subsidized. Both games were break out "mature" action game hits, but that's really nothing new for Capcom, each gen they've been averaging 2 (Final Fight and Street Fighter on SNES, Resident Evil and Dino Crisis on PS1, Onimusha and DMC on PS2). This gen it looks like they'll have 3, with Monster Hunter also graduating to the big leagues.
If we look back more at the sorts of games Z&W shares any real commonality with last gen, we find lots of PS2/GC/Xbox "bombs" or mediocre performers like like Maximo 1-2, auto modellista, PN03, Viewtiful Joe 1-2/RHR, Gotcha Force, Okami, God Hand, Steel Batallion/LOC, Chaos Legion, Glass Rose, BOF Dragon Quarter, Killer 7, Crimson Tears, Under the Skin, Haunting Ground, Group S Challenge, Shadow of Rome, Everblue 1-2, Gregory Horror Show, Killer 7, etc, etc. And most of those "failures" were on PS2, yet none managed to get brought up nearly as much as Z&W even when some were budgeted to be million sellers (Okami, auto modellista, Chaos Legion).
