ZechsMerquise said:
Agreed on both counts! :) However there have been three relatively big releases that have bombed on the HD consoles over the last month, Enslaved, Castlevania and Front Mission. Three big games, big budgets and bad numbers, yet very little has been said in the gaming press about this. People knock the Wii for poor third party numbers on core games, but when it happens on the HD systems very little is said. What's more, when a game like Madworld (with over 500k sales) or a game like HotD: Overkill (with over 700k sales) fail to reach a million units they do so with much reduced dev costs. I would wager that the three games I have mentioned above will have left the devs well out of pocket. |
It's still too early to judge imo, I think Castlvania will be pushing 1.5 million sold to retailers by the end of the holidays and after Japan sales. It's hardly the most inspiring of sales but solid numbers non the less - albeit it depends how strong it's holiday sales are I guess.
Enslaved will probably end up a bit in the red when alls said and done though. It's not rare for new IP's to be funded to do this though, so we might see a sequel still, just depends on how the numbers break down. Something I'm sure non of us can really estimate.
There is a certain amount of media bias vs the Wii, some has foundations and some is just made up. It seems to have died nowadays this argument against the WIi, but probably just cause no one seems to bother putting any games like this on the system anymore 0_o. Something I definitely find odd.
