txrattlesnake said:
jarrod said:
txrattlesnake said:
Veder Juda said:
txrattlesnake said:
It doesn't have anything to do with their games as their games have received some of the best reviews of any publisher's on Wii. And that is just the thing, with the lack of the big third party games on Wii like GTA, etc, then the audience of 60 million Wii owners should be picking up the games from a publisher like Marvelous as they have had less competition against their games as on the Wii than PS2, for example, where their games would have been pitted against more established franchises in similar genres, thus cutting into their sales, but they haven't found better success with the relative lack of competition.
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Niche is niche.
If Marvelous games didn't sell well because they were weird, then any new audience might see them just as weird as the core gamers do.
If Marvelous games didn't sell well because of competition with bigger, better games, then they are still competing against those games, even if they are on another platform; the gamers who prefer those games would just buy the console that has those games, and continue to ignore Marvelous.
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Well, what I heard from Wii fans in the early days was that Nintendo would take these expanded market gamers and make them interested in the core games. NMH2 received good reviews from several sites, so if it's not selling it has more to with the failure to convert expanded market types into core gamers than either the quality of the game or its being a niche game imho.
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Why should the expanded market be interested in NMH2? They don't even know about it and it's published by the biggest shovelware company on Wii?
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Because it's a better game than most of the games they own. Because it's by the best game designer since Kojima was young. Because it's Iwata's intention to make everybody he can into gamers.
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But they don't know about it, it's not promoted to them and it's not featured on the outlets they use. And if they happen to see it on the shelf, they'll see it's from Ubishit, the same company that's been hawking Petz/Babiez/Imagine/Rabbids shovelware on their system for years, and they'll probably pass it by.
It's not Iwata's job to sell them on NMH, it's Ubi's. It may be a great game, but the expanded audience doesn't know that. And them not knowing that isn't due to Nintendo...
