MontanaHatchet said:
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.
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How does RE4 appealing to a "Nintendo" userbase in any way show that the "Nintendo" userbase doesn't like mature games (Dodece's theory)? It's a "mature" title in that it has elements that could be considered "mature" such as shooting, blood, etc. It sold well, so there must be *some* audience that likes this style of game.
As for Manhunt, why should a mediocre game sell well on the Wii? It barely sold better on the PS2 (50k copies isn't all that much) which has a much larger market share and more owners who could potentially buy the game. If the game was any good, it would have sold much better on the PS2.
I just don't see how the sales of average games, like Scarface and Godfather, both which were released early in the Wii's life cycle, are at all indiciative of poor sales of "mature" titles, when games like RE:4, RE:UC and NMH (which has sold well for what it is) have all met and exceeded their publisher's expectations.
