The Wii should have had a flood of PS2 ports, but of the great ones.

[patjuan32]

Xxain said:

patjuan32 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

patjuan32 said:

Yes, Wii owners care about online, just look at the sales of Mario Kart and the Call of Duty games. Heck, the Conduit would have sold more if it did not suffer from online problems. Yes, Wii owners do care about online and that's why NBA Jam will not sell  as well as it could have.

Um, Mario Kart aslo has local, and CoD sold far less than the HD versions that have local.

So those are not good pieces of evidence that Wii owners care about online to the point of not buying games without it.

Plus NBA Jam has almost no marketing, so you can't just assume lack of online is affecting sales when that factor has to be taken into account.

Mario Kart also has online as well. We can not just ignore that fact. Call of Duty games are advertised for the HD consoles, have download content, and voice chat. The Wii games do not have advertising, No download content, and do not feature voice chat. Furthermore, Call of Duty 4 skipped the Wii and that affected the Call of Duty fanbase on the Wii. The port came two years later and still sold over a million copies. My evidence still stands. Wii owners do care about online.

................ I hope your not saying that online played a hand in Mario Karts success? It would have the same exact numbers that it does today without it. Nothing in your post points to Online being essential in Wii development.

As I have already stated, Wii gamers care about online games and the games I listed proved that. All you did was state that Mario Kart would have sold over 20 million units with out online. Yet Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, nor Mario Kart: Double Dash, which all had local Multiplayer, sold over 10 million units. Therefore to say that Mario Kart would have sold over 20 million units any way is supposition. You need concrete proof to prove that having online gameplay did not help Mario Kart to reach it's sales.