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[raisinghelen]

Are all 3rd party publishers totally clueless? It always seems like their strategys on the Wii are a year behind what is needed.

Ubisoft started out good on the Wii and they have put out some good games like Red Steel, Rayman Raving Rabbids 1, No More Heroes, Tenchu, Shaun White Snowboarding, Dawn Of Discovery (I need to pick this up) and Rabbids Go Home. Everything else has been mostly crap though.

If Rabbids Go Home has sold over half a million then I'd have thought that was pretty good, considering that it was released in the same month as some huge titles like NSMB and MW2. Wii titles don't tend have have the huge initial sales that 360/PS3 titles have either but they pick up more sales over the long term, so shouldn't they wait a bit longer before claiming that everything was a horrible failure? I think that Shaun White World Stage came out too soon after the 1st game, got poorer reviews and didn't have the 360/PS3 versions advertising to help it out.

That is another thing, maybe it would help if they actually advertised their Wii titles too. If I didn't look on the internet to see what games are available then I'd only know SMG, Mario Kart, Wii Fit, NSMB, The Conduit and FFCC: The Crystal Bearers existed because they are the only games I've ever seen advertised. Is it a coincidence that out of Nintendo's own titles the biggest sellers are the ones that are advertised? People often say 'it's just because its Mario it'll sell millions' but NPC Mario Tennis and Mario Sluggers only just sold over a million, so while the name helps it doesn't automatically make the games huge sellers without some promotion. The 'casual' market that they are aiming at most likely doesn't search the web for games, so if you don't advertise them then they wont even know they exist and there is too much shovelware taking up space on shelves to just throw your game on there and expect it to sell. Retailers like EB Games don't care either, with the better titles being flung at the bottom amongst a ton of crap (unlike 360/PS3 titles that are prominantly displayed).

Publishers seem to want to avoid accepting any blame for poor sales of their games though, instead they make lame excuses that make them look like a bunch of douche bags.

Personally I think that the Wii has huge markets that publishers are just not taking advantage of. It has also rejuvinated the industry, if all we had was the continual stream of FPS and sandbox action games that seem like safe sales then gaming would have stagnated and possibly crashed in the next few years imo.