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MontanaHatchet on 24 May 2008
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JoeJ said:
Dodece said:
The answer to the question is absolutely not. The reality is that Grand Theft Auto is not geared toward the Wii demographic which does not, and never has accepted mature themed games. Even games that Mimic Grand Theft Autos play style are deadpanned by the Wii owner. Further more as has been noted before there is no name recognition on the Wii beyond Nintendo. A typical Wii owner has already decided to forgo third party name brands if they only own a Wii.

Do yourselves a favor, and check the sales. Scarface, Godfather, No More Heroes, Manhunt 2, and a number of other titles have proven the rule. Mature just doesn't sell on the Wii. Those who own the console do not want these types of games. Even standard console fodder such as Madden fails in the Wii kiddie pool. Yes it is somewhat alarming that the PS3 with less then half the install base in North America of the Wii can manage to still move many more copies of Madden.

I think the title would struggle mightily to sell a million on the Wii, and to actually sell two million would be damn near miraculous. Beyond that I think some posters are in denial about exactly whom they are playing their console with. You are not playing with other gamers that prefer or even like mature gaming. You really are playing with very casual players.

Okay, let's check some sales!

Godfather Wii: http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=6142 (0.09m)

Godfather PS3: http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=6143 (0.17m)

It seems that PS3 owners also do not want mature titles, at least by your definition! How about Manhunt 2?

Manhunt 2 Wii: http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=7677 (0.18m)

Manhunt 2 PS2: http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=12464 (0.23m)

Well, it seems that by your definition, PS2 owners also do not want mature titles!

Please stop posting such rediculous statements. Of course GTA would do well on the Wii, there is a large userbase and plenty of name recognition. As sales of RE:4 have shown, mature titles do well on the Wii, *when they're good games*. As soon as 3rd parties start making good mature titles and advertise them, people will buy them.

The thing is though, the Resident Evil games sold well on the Gamecube too. Which means that it might have an appeal to a "Nintendo" userbase rather than a "Mature" userbase.

As for Manhunt, that was a mediocre game that should have well sold better on the Wii. The Wii was selling record breaking amounts in the U.S. back in holiday season 07, and it still got outsold by the PS2 version, while the PS2 has been lingering on its death bed for over a year now.

And as for the Godfather, many PS3 owners were also former PS2 owners, where the Godfather already sold well and reached a reasonable userbase for the game. You might as well just buy the game budget priced on the PS2 and play it with backwards compatibility. The Wii version was a new, high quality game that many people in the userbase likely hadn't played before, and it sold about half as much. Scarface was a miserable flop as well.

If a Grand Theft Auto game were on the Wii, it would probably sell as much as the GTA iterations on the Playstation. I would go with 2 or 3 million tops, regardless of quality.