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oniyide on 22 May 2016
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bdbdbd said:

oniyide said:

I didnt mention graphics as a reason for it to go in the closet. Not sure where that came from. It went in the closet because they got bored, not unlike a lot of products that were the "it" thing to have. 

But those games were not released that close to each other. Outside of Just Dance non of them were annual. There were only 3 games in the Deca Sports series. So which games were released to close to each other? Deca Sports has more than a million sold and thats just the orginal. So how was it not a popular game. Another example Carnival Games only had two on for Wii the orginal sold real well, the sequel...not so much. Its true about shelf space so whats the excuse for games like Elder Scrolls. Call of Duty? hell sports games that maintain sales throughout the gen and in some cases go even higher. (funny enough COD sold worse and worse and Wii, but better and better on other systems).

What new games could have been made that would make them care?

No, you said the soccer moms don't care about graphics, and I was astonished about the statement and asked how do you know what the soccer moms care about. Your reply to that was that the soccer moms put their consoles to the closet.

Million isn't bad, but that's just a number that people buy the games when there's nothing specifically interesting to buy. This is why all popular system have so much crap on them.

As I said about COD, that's why Activision keeps changing the tagline of the games - to keep the content fresh. Why would've COD sold on the Wii? It's not a game that's made the system in mind, was released years after the HD-versions and it's not an interesting series anyway - for others than the core, that is. COD sold better on the other systems because the games industry knows how to market for the core gamers.

That's a good question, and answer to that is worth billions. Simply put: Nintendo should've kept making games that were arcade by nature and feature new content; that's what people bought when thay bought the Wii.

in my experience they dont care about graphics. Has your's been different? I mean the games they were buying werent exactly 1080hp

actually i was wrong about Deca Sports the original sold 2.50 mil copies and the next one sold .82 mil and the next sold .24 mil. That is one hell of a drop. the original Carnival games sold more than 4 mil copys, the sequel sold .61 mil. THat is a hell of a drop i cant think of another series that had a drop that big. How does one account for that? It cant be that there was more interesting things to buy because series across the board was going down in sales. 

If a tagling is all it needed how come other series arent maintaining there sales? especially ones that started out selling a lot, it cant all be just marketing.

So if we dont know, then Ninty didnt know. I'm gonna assume that there were NO games they could have made that would have made a difference or else they would have done them.