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Kenology on 01 November 2012
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F0X said:
KylieDog said:
superchunk said:
happydolphin said:

Courtesy of FOX, boys. A core game that was of higher quality (budget?) on the Wii, here are the sales. It was in 2010:
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=forgotten+sands&publisher=&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

PosGamePlatformYearGenrePublisherNorth AmericaEuropeJapanRest of WorldGlobal
1 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands PS3 2010 Action Ubisoft 0.17 0.30 0.01 0.11 0.58
2 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands X360 2010 Action Ubisoft 0.26 0.22 0.00 0.06 0.55
3 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands PSP 2010 Action Ubisoft 0.08 0.16 0.01 0.09 0.33
4 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Wii 2010 Action Ubisoft 0.09 0.09 0.00 0.02 0.19
5 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands DS 2010 Action Ubisoft 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.10
6 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands PC 2010 Action Ubisoft 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01
Total0.690.770.020.281.76

ok so it sold ~600k on PS360 each and ~200k on Wii. 1/3 the sales... in 2010 well after any core audience on Wii had vanished.


You invent an excuse for everything, Dead Rising was a bad port on old engine, PoP was 2010.  How about Tomb Raider from 2008 then?

1 Tomb Raider: Underworld PS3 2008 Adventure Eidos Interactive 0.42 0.48 0.05 0.20 1.14
2 Tomb Raider: Underworld X360 2008 Adventure Eidos Interactive 0.50 0.37 0.01 0.10 0.99
3 Tomb Raider: Underworld Wii 2008 Adventure Eidos Interactive 0.13 0.23 0.00 0.05 0.41


Mainly this.

"The whole thing has been oversimplified and dumbed down. The Wii puzzles are a joke, the combat is almost nonexistent, and the game is pretty short." - IGN, Tomb Raider: Underworld (Wii) Review

By this time, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed taught gamers a painful lesson about buying crap ports, even ones with Wii-specific features. Since at that time most Wii ports were crap, I believe gamers started to associate Wii ports with crap, which would go on to undermine The Forgotten Sands's actual superiority.


Not to mention the Wii version of Tomb Raider: Underworld had a really frustrating game-ending bug.