jarrod said:
Well, good thing I'm NOT NOT attributing a significant amount of sales to brand / audience. ;) Spector absolutely made the right decision in focusing on Wii, the core Nintendo audience and expanded casual audience fits his game like a glove. I don't think the game could've asked for better sales, and I doubt even combined across 360 and PS3 it'd have hit the same first month benchmark. But one the other hand... how well do you think "Mickey Party" would've sold? And how exactly would Kingdom Hearts have grown the base for Epic Mickey specifically? Are you saying most KH fans are also Wii owners (hmm...)? There's pretty clearly more at play here than "lol Wii casuals buy anything" and "lol people know that Mickey is"... |
I agree that Wii is a good fit for Epic Mickey. But I also think Mickey Party would have sold well. 1 million. Maybe if they did a Mickey Sports or something similar. Or Disney World Sports. 1 Million isn't unreasonable. There is an audience for those games, which may not completely overlap with Epic Mickeys audience.
One thing Epic Mickey showed was that Mickey's brand isn't as strong as they thought. Which was why there was the immediate press release blaming the camera controls, which I don't think have anything to do with sales.
With resepct to KH, I said a certain audience. I.E. Many young gamers did not grow up watching Mickey mouse, they didn't have mickey mouse club or anything like that. Most shows on the Disney channel are not even cartoons. KH hearts leveraged the FF brands to encourage younger gamers or gamers who were more familiar with the FF fantasy world, and introduced them to the disney world.