LordTheNightKnight said:
Gamerace said:
blunty51 said:
Did something happen to HVS which made them change their goals ultimately?
It was around the same time frame they changed the direction of this game, and The Grinder. And god knows what else.
Are they making these calls?
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Probably the modest sales of The Conduit. And to a lesser extent those of Madworld and HotD:Overkill. They probably realized the core demographic on Wii was smaller and more descerning than they'd hoped.
250K is probably the most they can realistically expect for Conduit 2 and Grinder. ToL / G:AD a new IP from a small developer in an even less popular genre could never expect big numbers. TvsC did okay, nothing notable but okay, and thats a VS game from Capcom. I think they did the right thing with ToL, actually, kaboshing it altogether might have been even smarter.
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Why do you think it's so small? CoD still sells a million, and that's with no marketing. How about just the "more discerning" part, in that we don't buy mediocre games, we buy good games. Give a good game, and we will buy it.
And no, being niche but on the Wii does not mean the sales will stop being niche.
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BECAUSE CoD only sells a million, even with TV ads which WaW had for the Wii version, despite a user base almost equal to 360 PS3 combined. Compare CoD HD sales to Wii sales. Wii's audience for that type of game is small. If CoD can only crack a little over a million, then anyone, even Metal of Honor, Bad Company, or Left 4 Dead, if they had Wii versions, could only expect 300-500k on Wii. So really, how much can Conduit 2 or Grinder expect to get? Even less: 200-250k max. But for HVS, that's enough. If they can make that every time, expect yearly sequels.
