Watch Dogs shifts almost no copies on its Wii U launch in UK

[DonFerrari]

Samus Aran said:

DonFerrari said:

Samus Aran said:

Not every mature game sells 5M copies. Crash Bandicoot games sold a lot on the PS. Jak and Daxter: the precurser legacy sold 4M copies on the PS2. Ratchet and Clank: going commando sold 3M.

Those are all good sales. And those games are also cheaper to make than the super realistic games à la The Last of Us or GTA V. And probably also faster to develop. These are factors that should also be taken into account. 

Most games (of any kind) don't sell 5M or more. But what I'm saying is that the devs/pubs try to hit that range for AAA games and we know what genres do that on MP and what don't. So by making games that caters more to WiiU than to PS4/X1 owners would certainly end up with lower expectations (but I accept that also would have lower cost) and I wouldn't mind they doin it, since I'm all for B, A, AA titles as well and like platformers. But that isn't much of what EA, Acti and Ubi is after.

I'm talking about PS3 forward not about the 2 biggest platformers franchise on PS1 and PS2.

Ratchet didn't sold great on PS3, Knack altough quite good didn't sold brilliant (but probably profited, I'll give you that).

But my point is more on Nintendo fans try to find several reasons to justify low sales of games on their system instead of the obvious "fanbase isn't interested" (not that it is even a bad thing, just prefference, but it is bad when expecting 3rd party support), too much demands with little reward for big publishers to care.

I was going to say not every game needs to be AAA, but you already adressed that yourself. I don't think the Ratchet games on PS3 were all that good though.

I'm not saying that the big studios should make such games, but why not a smaller studio? It's too hard for them to compete with the bigger developers with the same type of games anyway. Might as well make something that isn't oversaturated and is cheaper/faster to develop. 

I like R&C games and have most, but yes they aren't fantastic, just solid good games... set to sell on 500k-1M and that is what it should get for the games I played.

Well Ubisoft is a big publisher and people are complaining about bad support from it, EA, Acti and other big ones... but yes big publishers could fund smaller games from smaller teams with budget on check and sell decent number on all plat (it is possible to make a game that limits itself to WiiU technical capabilities but looks good and is multiplatform. I'm just not sure it would sell great on WiiU because aint exclusive ninty sw and if by looking like or playing like something on WiiU how it would do on PS4/X1)... but of coure I would love to see more B, A games being released by under 40 dollars but not being indie.