Soriku said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Its probably just a combination of most Japanese third parties are focusing more on the DS (the system that is by FAR the most popular system in Japan) and because most Japanese companies that try to make games for the Wii don't do very well.
I mean, if you look at all the major third party games on the Wii, there really hasn't been any major 'hit' for the system. Monster Hunter Tri is still trying to break through to a million, games like Little Kings Story and Muramasa didn't do all that great and major third party efforts like Fatal Frame IV and 428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de just outright bombed. Its literally getting to the point where third party developers, Japanese or western, are starting to look at the Wii as a system where they can only make a quick low budget game to make money because there's no guarantee if their game will sell 1 million copies....or 100,000. And most aren't being able to come close to that 1 million mark. To this date, only one third party Wii game has sold 1 million based on Japanese sales alone. There's 12 games on DS that can claim that prize.
Its like I've been saying for a while now, the biggest competition for the Wii is the DS. Its giving third parties an excuse not to make games for the Wii when the DS is much more popular and software sells 5-10x better on it. |
MH3 hit a million a long time ago...and yes, in Famitsu.
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I'd add to that neither Fatal Frame IV or 428 "bombed". FF4 is actually the best selling game in the entire series, and 428 Wii is Chunsoft's best selling ADV game this gen (better than *anything* they've done on PSP, PS3 or DS in fact).
Also, Muramasa is Vanillaware's 2nd best selling game ever. LKS was pure bomba though. ;_;
