Nintendo messes up again with the marketing!

[NightDragon83]

twilight_link said:

NightDragon83 said:

twilight_link said:

NightDragon83 said:

Mr Khan said:

NightDragon83 said:

LilChicken22 said:

 

If 1 game on Wii sells almost 80% of 1 game on the HD twins COMBINED, then how can you call Nintendo's marketing a flaw. I didn't see Sony market Ni No Kuni despite the excellent sales, but there are also other games that don't sell despite the marketing, but Sony doesn't get blamed for that (Sly4).  This proves a non-Nintendo published third party game can sell on Nintendo consoles.

Certain games actually DO sell pretty good on Nintendo consoles like JRPG's (Dragon Quest, Monster Hunter, Kingdom Hearts). It has to be something that appeals to Nintendo gamers. Games like Skyrim/Wolvenstein and other boring shooters don't appeal to Nintendo gamers at all, it has to be unique. So don't rage again when Watch Dogs won't sell, this is already known.  

- Skyrim is a boring shooter?  You mean I've sunk 150+ hours into the game and I was playing it wrong the whole time?!?

- Yeah, Nintendo gamers really love them some unique games... if by "unique" you mean anything with Mario, Zelda, Pokemon or Wii slapped on the title.

- Watch Dogs is also not a "boring shooter", in fact it is quite a unique game that just happens to feature shooting elements in it. On PS360 alone it will outsell the LTD sales of the Wii U's top games by the end of this year (NSMBU and Nintendo Land, which are the only two Wii U games to break a million thus far).  But because it's not a minigame-fest nor does it feature Nintendo's top mascots, the Wii U version will bomb hard.

Both of the bold statements reflect the thin ice both of you are standing on right now.

Me?  Seriously?!?

"if by "unique" you mean anything with Mario, Zelda, Pokemon or Wii slapped on the title."

Mario Galaxy, Wii_, Skyward Sword extremely unique content hardly seen before anywhere else

"in fact it is quite a unique game that just happens to feature shooting elements in it."

perhaps maybe just maybe, because the target audience is so wretched that they can't understand anything without blood and gunz, so in order to sell they are forced to put blood and gunz in almost everything.

I'll give you Galaxy and especially Wii Sports which is arguably the most original and unique title of last gen and pretty much the reason the Wii sold so well, but beyond that Zelda and most other games were the old formulas with motion controls tacked on.

And I think that's a bit too much generalizing by saying PS360 gamers don't understand anything without blood and guns... we're just a lot less squeamish about it, and we prefer games with a bit more variety and deeper plots than just "save the princess" all the time.

Bestselling games on "HD"Twins (the word HD is joke most of their games were hardly in HD), almost everything are either gimmick or contain blood and or gunz

Ditto for the top selling Wii games having "Mario" or "Wii" in the title.

And actually the best selling 360 game of all time is Kinect Adventures... which also goes to show that the casual audience (which makes up about 95% of the Wii's userbase) will buy any game that's bundled with a plastic peripheral.