| OooSnap said: I have never seen Brain Training commercials. But I'll take your word for it. I have seen Boogie and Boom Blox commercials yet they didn't sell much. If Nintendo was on the cover I wouldn't doubt it would have better sells. As for Excite Truck and Fire Emblem, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have sold as much as it did if Nintendo brand wasn't on the box. |
Brain and Sight Training games were heavily marketed on TV. So was Carnival Games. Boogie and Boom Blox weren't advertised nearly as much. Boogie got horrible reviews anyway, so no surprise that it failed to find an audience. Boom Blox is likely just a little too abstract-looking for some people who were easily sold on something like Wii Sports. They'll warm up to more abstract games eventually.
Fire Emblem had tons of issues, and Excite Truck was one of three off-road/monster truck racing games that launched with the Wii--and one of those other ones came with a plastic wheel. Neither were aggressively marketed on television. They sold fairly well, but quite shy of the million-mark.
These game sales have little to do with whether or not Nintendo is the publisher. Sorry to break it to you, but your theory is flawed. Plus, if Nintendo just went around publishing every game they could for their system, they'd lose third party publisher support at record speed because it would only enforce the idea that "only Nintendo games sell on Nintendo systems."
