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I3LuEI3omI3eR on 02 October 2014
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sundin13 said:
I3LuEI3omI3eR said:
TheWPCTraveler said:
As long as they continue putting out good games, I'm fine with that.

If they go ahead and act like the rest of the big third-party publishing industry, then they can kiss my sweet cash goodbye.

Fair enough, but what happens if they act like the reat of the big-third party publishing industry, while releasing games that contain great gameplay?

Also a lot of people are saying "they should create/buy new IPs" but Nintendo has done this already countless times. Killer 7, Mad World, Eternal Darkness (which many consider one of the best horror games ever made), Geist, ZombiU, No more Heroes 1 AND 2, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Red Steel 1 & 2, even Resident Evil 4 was a GC exclusive for a while. ALL SOLD POORLY besides RE4 butRE games are already an established franchise and it sold mostly on the Wii than the GC. Hell, you can probably throw Bayonetta 2 in the mix since many here say it won't sell (I hope most of you are wrong ). Only reason why I suggest changing their existing ones is because it gives series the general audience are familiar with, while appealing to their existing fans, and a chance to draw out a new audience that THOUGHT this series were a certain way but turned out to be like something they like (Metroid looks like Destiny now? Awesome!)...

The family-friendly Gaming reputation is a double edge sword it seems.

Most of the games you listed aren't actually Nintendo games...additionally, I would argue that many of them didn't sell poorly but that is another discussion

Let's narrow it down, shall we?

Killer7: 150k copies sold.

Eternal Darkness: 440k copies sold.

Geist: 150k copies sold.

ZombiU: 710K copies sold (not bad but this got a boost since it was a release title plus bundled in a console pack) so those numbers are somewhat misleading.

Red Steel: 660k copies (not bad again, but very diappointing because this was also a release title, and considering everyone and their mother literally were buying Wii's at the time, the fact this didn't break a Mill is mind boggling).

Red Steel 2: 600k copies (alright but nothing too special either).

Mad World: 740k copies ( not bad, I read on Wiki this sold a lot less, but I guess they didn't know what they were talking about. Still, this is not a number that jumps as anything special, especially since the Wii was in like 60mill + household's at the time.

No more Heroes: 540k copies (again a"meh")

No More Heroes 2: 380k (below a "meh")

Conker's Bad Fur Day: 770k (Not bad, considering it came out on the End of the N64's console cycle, only number that surprised me).

So you basically only proved Conker did great. Okay, maybe poorly is a bad choice of words, but all those sales are still disappointing, and they definitely played better than what they sold for.