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jarrod on 05 February 2010
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Veder Juda said:
Mr Puggsly said:
jarrod said:
TVC was actually advertised. Maybe Ubishit should take notes...

On the bright side for "Ubishit", they don't have to earn back money from advertising.

Even if they did advertise, what could they have expected? 80K opening? Its hard enough to make a profit on the Wii with a M rated core game. You want them to waste more money with advertising?

Final Fantasy on the Wii only sold 40K in NA and that had heavy advertising.

Advertising can only make people aware of your product, it doesn't affect whether or not anyone wants your product.  NMH and NMH2 are niche games, better known for being gorey and violent, and that's a turn-off for a lot of people; and most of the people who would be interested in NMH2, are those who played NMH, and already know about the game.

Actually, I'd say a lot of design decisions were made to make NHM2 more accessible (the "overworld" immediately jumps out).  I mean, sure it's never going to be a platinum blockbuster, but it could definitely do better than the minor cult hit the first one was imo.

In terms of actual game design, I'd say TVC is pretty easily the more niche of the 2 games (2D fighter, "obscure" anime licenses) and it's outperforming it 2 to 1 in America.