Smash_Brother on 18 June 2008
| exindguy said: Boom Blox wouldn't have sold on 360 or PS3 at full price, so let's just not go here (you can't charge $50-60 for a puzzle game, no matter how good, period). If 360 owners are so "sophisticated" why didn't WarTech sell? If they're so "sophisticated" why didn't Silpheed sell? The fact is, these are niche games just like Boom Blox (regardless of how good any of them happen to be--and they're all excellent games) and you can't sell a niche game at the standard price pointj and especially games as abstract as Boom Blox. I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.) |
I have a new sig quote.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
