Bored4life said:
bdbdbd said:
I do agree that Nintendo focuses on bridged games, which MP3 was supposed to be aswell. But the thing is, that it really failed miserably in that case. Looking at how MP3 sells, its sales are only going to end up between the previous Primes, or in best case scenario, barely become the best-selling Prime. And that's because of Capcom. When you look at it, Capcom is the only publisher that has managed to beat Nintendo in a virtually direct competition on Wii.
Besides, REUC without a doubt is a bridged game, it's no coincidence either that it happens to be so slow paced. It's hard as hell to cater the "hardcore" with some "side missions", its story caters for the RE fans, it's Wii Remote controls are easy to pick up and it's so slow paced that it doesn't work as reaction test outside the random "waggle or die" in the bossfights. |
MP3 only had 2 purposes if you read through old interviews. 1)Cement in a portion of gamers' minds that Wii is best for FPS.This is probably the last barrier that will fall to the Blue Ocean waves. 2)Test possibilities for digital distribution.A concept that led to an incident recently that forced Sony to forget about marketshare and focus on trying to get their PC in the livingroom going before it's too late(the reason why they got into the console business in the first palce). So I disagree. @Louie:I worry about Resident Evil 5 aswell.It's the only thing I worry about because it's the one game that I really want to play and I'm not buying an HD console. |
The preview channel definately was genious idea, test how "Nintendo Channel" would work and market a game that's most targeted at the audience that's looking the gameplay videos from the internet. And now you need to think outside the box, it doesn't really matter which way your game is bridged. The Resident Evil games still performed better in MS3:s task, or should i say, just ate away sales.
Looking (again) MP3 sales, it didn't manage to expand its audience, it only managed to cater the existing fanbase. People who wanted shooting, went for RE4 or REUC. Of course, MP3 can still show legs and if the rumoured MP trilogy pack turns out to be true, it still may complete its mission.
