SE's Wada speaks out again

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swyggi said:
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@Dodece: Redsteel was a lot like Assassins Creed, big budget for the platform, lots of hype but it didn't live up to hype and the game had some serious flaws. You're right about that RS had a lot of sales because of being launch title and the lack of competition, but consider the low installbase at the time it was released. RS would propably have pretty similar sales if it would have been released 6 months later. So when the game is qualitywise so similar with Assassins Creed, i wouldn't say Wii owners having high tolerance for bad quality games in comparision. Besides, haven't the problem in bad 3rd party game sales been in their low quality.

AC didn't live up to the hype, but it's quality was much greater than Red Steel. I usually don't trust review scores, but there is a fine line between telling if a game is superior to another game in terms of just the score.

Red Steel
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/932528.asp?q=Red%20Steel

Assassins Creed
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/930022.asp?q=Assassins%20Creed

From reading hundreds of comments online, I can also tell you that people enjoyed AC much more than Red Steel. I rarely even hear about anyone liking RS honestly.

As we all know, Ubisoft blackmailed review sites about AC reviews, so Assassins Creeds number is propably inflated by that. And another thing we know, is the "Wii opposition" among the reviewers, which pushes the RS number down. When RS came out, a lot of people liked it, just like they like AC at the moment, so we should wait a year and see how its appeal lasts. Now, i'm not saying that AC wouldn't be better than Redsteel, but let's face it: they're both crap. I do agree with you, that the exclusives define the console, and usually make the reason to buy the specific platform, but if a question is, that will 3rd parties sell on console X, it's irrelevant whether they are exclusives or multiplatform titles. And as we all know, different types of games sell different on different console due the demographic.