EA should port Extraction to the HD system when the motion controls launch.

[Demotruk]

steverhcp02 said:

Demotruk said:

steverhcp02 said:
I understand your frustration OP, but lets be honest. A year old port of a game when the true sequal Dead Space 2 is probably coming out around the same time would cannibalize its sales.

Want to compare on rails games from HD to Wii....compare Time Crisis sales to Dead Space sales.

Or maybe we will see Wii and HD simaltaneous releases of future rail games, in which case we will have to wait and see, but id bet it would comfortably be a nice 2:1 sale PS3 vs Wii.

Ooh, good idea, compare one of the worst selling Wii on rails shooters to the best selling PS3 one.

Well, if there is another "not best" selling on rails HD game we can compare that too. You ignore everything else in my post.

So your argument is "we cant compare them because it doesnt fit my argument" It is what it is bro, this thread was pointing out dead space, not HoD or anything else.

Even so, when we compare Hod overkill and Hod 2/3 we see perhaps the genre's fanbase isnt interested in such games on the wii anymore, who knows, its anyones guess why it happened. Dead Space wii to my knowledge was relatively well receieved.

Dead Space Extraction 82 meta 81 user

House of the dead 78 meta 93 user

House of the dead 2/3 66 meta 78 user

Its strange as to why its happened, but the sales diminish with release dates moving from HOD 2/3 down to overkill down to dead space rather than sales based on user or critic ratings.

Why this happened is anyones guess but my own, but im inclined to believe that HoD 2/3 sold more because it was at a time when the wii was still in the "wow" timeframe and supply constrained, 2 years after release and sales went down as the wii demographic shifter.

Time crisis still has outsold all but HoD 2/3 even though thats by far the least enjoyable based on user and critic reviews. So its anyone guess, but ive explained my theory.

My argument was that your argument was flawed, you were cherry picking a terrible Wii rail shooter to say that rail shooters don't sell on Wii. Even on your further analysis you've decided to omit the Resident Evil shooters because they don't fit your argument. And ironically you accused me of "we can't compare them because it doesn't fit my argument". Umbrella Chronicles has sold 1.23 mill, Darkside only 400K so far but it certainly doesn't paint the picture you tried to in your post.

 

Using metacritic is a fallacy as it's not representative of the general public. On one hand you've got the enthusiast media, mostly males in their twenties and thirties, hardly representative. On the other you've got self selecting users, more likely to be enthusiasts.