| Riot Of The Blood said: I still don't see why we should be happy over 100k. I'm expecting 1m units sold for this game worldwide. Let's face it, this is not the PSP we're talking about. The Nintendo Wii is the fastets selling console of all-time, it has a great attach rate, and it's the market leader. A great game should be able to do 100k with it's eye's closed on the Wii. |
Look up all the songs made by Suda51 in the past, none of them have had success even on this scale. You are mistaking the term 'great game' for 'mainstream game'. Suda51 makes low budget cult titles such as NMH and Killer7 and any one of them selling a decent amount is a wonderful surprise.
Ratchet on the other hand is an established multi-million selling high budget mainstream IP, of course its going to sell a lot more than a niche cult title, not matter the console its on.
Edit: Its a niche game because of its absurdist humour, in jokes (a lot of the game refers back to old gaming) and references to things that people outside of the internet wouldn't understand, no non-Japanese person is going to know what is happening with the Otaku related storyline unless they have spent far too much time on the net like we all have.
Also being part of a mainstream genre doesn't make it mainstream, Okami and SotC are both part of mainstream genres yet both are consdidered niche titles due to the fact that nobody outside of the internet gaming community really knows about them.
