Sega: Madworld possible would have done better on 360 or ps3.

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Zlejedi said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Not exactly sure where the marketing guy fits in with the idea of success or failure of a title.  Like he's in charge of making sure word goes out and it sells, if he's saying it didn't, isn't that coming back on him failing at his job?

Even then I'm wondering why SEGA has praised HotD:OK, said The Conduit was a financial success, but Madworld has sold more than TC, it took forever for Overkill to outsell it, and it's the one singled out?  It leaves me scratching my head.

A big part of Madworld sales is done at something like 5 pounds price. This game has hitted bargain bin fast and stays there till this day which suggests to me that they might have grossly overestimated first print and still are selling it.

If that was the case they would likely only be minimalizing loses with those sales instead of making money (afaik you pay royalties to platform holder up front)

 Definitely what happened in the UK, the game reached £1.99 for a brief stint and is still avaliable for around £4 lol.

 But no, Madworld wouldn't have sold better on the HD consoles. I think they should of brought a port over, like 9 months later, as a $20 XBLA / PSN thing, as that would have made them a small profit with the cheap porting costs. But maybe it wouldn't have sold their either, who knows.

 The cost of porting a Wii game to the HD consoles isn't that much in all honesty though (Provided you don't go overtop with graphics overhaul, which this game didn't need) so in all honesty I think Madworld was better served releasing on all 3 consoles simultaneous.