jarrod said:
NotStan said:
jarrod said:
NotStan said:
jarrod said:
In the spirit of downplaying, anyone else notice Kinect seems to be a first party powerhouse but 3rd party wasteland sales wise? All the big sellers (Kinect Sports, Dance Central, Kinectimals) are all published by Microsoft basically... it's even more lopsidedly 1st party than Wii launch was I think?
Will there be any acknowledgement of this in the industry or will "dominant 1st party" remain a Nintendo only phenomenon for pundits / detractors?
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Imo it's all down to "If a game is good, it will sell", the only 3rd party game that seems like a worthy investment is Dance Central so far, and it's reflecting in sales. What I don't understand is why the hell Kinectanimals is selling, it looks morbid, well to me personally anyway.
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Microsoft published and promoted Dance Central, it fits into the hypothetical "only 1st party sells" narrative.
The top 3rd party game (and only decent seller imo) seems to be YourShape, but it was advertised like CRAZY in America, plus Ubisoft had at twice as many breakout hits for Wii launch (Raving Rabbids and Red Steel).
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Oh I thought MTV games or w/e published Dance Central(I honestly didn't even know that MTV publishes game in the first place). Wasn't this developed by Harmonix or something, which is the developer for MTV games? Wasn't too sure if MS published dance central or not. Although I agree that they did push it hard in advertising, as most of the advertisements were regarding Dance Central Kinect combo.
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MTV Games doesn't have the infrastructure to self-publish. They worked with EA Partners to publish Rock Band and Microsoft to publish Dance Central. It's a bit like Marvelous working with XSEED to publish some of their games, or Level-5 working with Nintendo on the Layton games outside Japan.
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Ah that makes sense, I wasn't too sure whether MTV would have the infrastructure to publish lol, was just surprised to see it say "MTV Games".
