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okr on 22 July 2010
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theRepublic said:
okr said:

Shame they released it on Wii/DS and system owners didn't really care about it. The Anno/Dawn of Discovery franchise is a million seller on PC, it was a flop on Wii/DS.

You can't just stealth release a game and hope it does well.  When most forum dwellers don't know about your game, then the general public isn't going to know shit either.

No game on this planet is "stealth released". That's always been a myth in my opinion. When most forum dwellers don't know about your game, it's for the simple reason that they didn't care in the first place. Or did Dawn of Discovery get no media coverage or not enough reviews? 
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/dawnofdiscovery?q=dawn
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/review/32231/dawn-of-discovery/
http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/957/957543p1.html (not only VGC and IGN, but also all other videogame sites on this planet with Wii coverage wrote a review or at least reported the announcement of the game).
Sorry, I don't buy any of these arguments and the strangest one I've ever heard about publishers is that they "didn't care" or "didn't really give a shit" (as palancas put it) about a game. If publishers wouldn't care about specific games, they wouldn't have released them in the first place.

Finally something OT from me: THQ brought deBlob to Wii and Drawn to Life to DS/Wii. Both franchises were innovative and fresh imo and both were successful, so I'm looking forward to their upcoming announcement.