Animal Crossing: City Folk was a serious FAILURE

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richardhutnik said:

stof said:

richardhutnik said:
I am ASTONISHED that the benchmark of a game not failing is that it has to sell over 4 million. If that is a case, then a title like Killzone 2 would be a failure of epic proportions, as is Halo Wars...
wait, maybe we shouldn't consider a title selling over 3.5 million a failure.

I would have to say also that I have concern for the likes of Final Fantasy XIII also. How close will this game be to being a serious failure?

That's not the benchmark of a game being a success. But it's certainly below the benchmark of a Nintendo flagship holiday title being a success. After mega hits like Galaxy and Brawl and super mega hits like Wii Fit and Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and Wii Music failed to push systems or reach that "evergreen status" that had been propelling the Wii forward. And because of it the system suffered in 2009. This holiday season however, Nintendo released titles that certainly do pass the unique benchmark that only Nintendo holiday flagship titles have to aspire to. Sports Resort and NSMBWii are not only mega million sellers that will go on to triple, quadrouple or even quintuple Animal Crossing's sales, but they're titles that will keep the Wii selling well in to the year.

 

Has a system ever had more evergreen titles than the Wii has had?  I can't understand why everyone would expect all releases to go evergreen on the Wii.

Because Nintendo expected it to? Because they pinned their holiday season (and the first half of 09) on this and Wii Music. And since the DS iteration has sold about 10 million units, they had plenty of reason to think it would do pretty damn well. The Wii's success has been largely attributed to those mega selling games. Nintendo tried to keep up momentum with two games that didn't live up to their expectations, and the Wii suffered in 09 because of it. That's a pretty good reason to say the game failed.