AndrewWK said:
What about MadWorld and Red steel they did not sell really good. |
Well, as freebs2 stated, Red Steel sold very well actually given it's mediocre quality. Something happened with the sales of the game on this site, they were once much better, over a million (about 1.5m if I recall correctly), IGN wrote on 26/04/07 that sales were then (less than 6 months after launch) 950k (Link: http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/783/783826p1.html ). It's sequel didn't sell all that well, but I think that was a by-product of the first game selling quite well; many potential buyers had a bad taste in their mouths, as well as the fact that RS2 required WM+ which shrunk the potential market for the game.
Madworld sold 690k, which is certainly enough for the game to break even and make a moderate profit. As you said, it didn't sell really well, but I would say that they were quite good considering the niche nature of the game and it's artstyle, not to mention that a friend and I completed the game over the course of one afternoon, evening and night when I was staying over (it took us just over 5 hours I think).
As a whole I would say that the 3rd party, so called 'core' games for the Wii that deserve high sales got them. Monster Hunter 3 is fantastic and one of my favourite games of this generation, it's sold over 2m on the Wii and is the highest selling home console game in the series. The only exception I would say is Tales of Graces, which despite being high quality was affected by loads of bugs, releasing the same week as FFXIII and a superior PS3 port coming about a year later. Dragon Quest X should also sell very well when it releases in August.
