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Forums - Nintendo - EA: PGA 11 sales are bad, Wii is a disappointment

LordTheNightKnight on 14 September 2010
KylieDog said:

Here is an idea to improve sales:

 

Stop releasing half a games worth of courses then on DAY 1 and the next few weeks release the other courses as DLC and charge more for them combined than the actual game cost.


Wait. They can do that with the Wii versions?



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pacman91 on 14 September 2010

I hate it when third parties(mainly EA) complain about the wii market, while not taking several aspects into consideration. Pretty much same game different year. You reap what you sow EA.



chapset on 14 September 2010

what was the big difference between pga tour 07 0.88m

                                                                pga tour 08  1.38m

                                                                pga tour 09  1.33m

                                                                pga tour 10  0.87

that cause them to sell so well??? it's obvious the wii demographics is dying... of old age mouhahahahaha



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TX109 on 14 September 2010
darthdevidem01 said:
TX109 said:

well, EA is a dissapointment so they really have no room to talk...

What?

If anything EA has improved SO MUCH in the past few years.

They went from being as hated as Activision to now even liked.

yeah well, considering this thing, the DS: extraction thing, and the NBA Jam thing, and the whole Madden thing(which is a bit of a personal irk of mine, eventhough i dont like sports games outside of the arcade ones) i think ill stand by what i said...

i should realy remember to end posts like these with IMO.....



                                                                                                  
Conegamer on 15 September 2010

I just don't understand how-and why- they expected this game to sell well, and why the hate on the Wii? Maybe if you made a PROPER game (eg real deadspace) then maybe you'll have some say. Shovelware and fitness crap doesn't cut it, I'm afraid.



 

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MrT-Tar on 15 September 2010

NBA Jam and now this...

Oh dear EA




LordTheNightKnight on 15 September 2010
Conegamer said:

I just don't understand how-and why- they expected this game to sell well, and why the hate on the Wii? Maybe if you made a PROPER game (eg real deadspace) then maybe you'll have some say. Shovelware and fitness crap doesn't cut it, I'm afraid.


The fitness games sell. But yeah, selling an actual Dead Space would be good, since that was the game we wanted.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

Conegamer on 15 September 2010
LordTheNightKnight said:
Conegamer said:

I just don't understand how-and why- they expected this game to sell well, and why the hate on the Wii? Maybe if you made a PROPER game (eg real deadspace) then maybe you'll have some say. Shovelware and fitness crap doesn't cut it, I'm afraid.


The fitness games sell. But yeah, selling an actual Dead Space would be good, since that was the game we wanted.

The fitness games may sell, so why not use those funds to make a more "mature" title? 

At any rate, I expect to see Kinect and Move up to their eyes in this in just a few months time, and it'll be EA to blame.



 

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Gamerace on 15 September 2010
Conegamer said:

I just don't understand how-and why- they expected this game to sell well, and why the hate on the Wii? Maybe if you made a PROPER game (eg real deadspace) then maybe you'll have some say. Shovelware and fitness crap doesn't cut it, I'm afraid.


It's a matter of expecting it to sell in line with previous years.   Wii has always been the top seller of TW games this generation but this year the TW sales on Wii have totally collapsed.  Sales on HD systems aren't stellar either.

Personally, I feel this is because most golf fans on Wii got the WM enhanced TW10, and they are quite content with it.  There's just not enough new content/gameplay in TW11 to justify buying the same game again to the Wii's more casual base.  

Wii's audience is also more likely to be put off by the whole TW image problem.  I can't prove that with any metrics, but I know a lot of women who bought TW Wii for their boyfriends/husbands and you can bet they probably wouldn't want to give their money to a lying, cheating manwhore like Woods or encourage their guys to want to be like Woods.

Shovelware doesn't sell on Wii (unless it's at least half decent and fun) but exercise games do.  EA Sport Active is EA's biggest seller on Wii to date and one you can expect to see on PS3 and 360 soon.



 

Conegamer on 15 September 2010
Gamerace said:
Conegamer said:

I just don't understand how-and why- they expected this game to sell well, and why the hate on the Wii? Maybe if you made a PROPER game (eg real deadspace) then maybe you'll have some say. Shovelware and fitness crap doesn't cut it, I'm afraid.


It's a matter of expecting it to sell in line with previous years.   Wii has always been the top seller of TW games this generation but this year the TW sales on Wii have totally collapsed.  Sales on HD systems aren't stellar either.

Personally, I feel this is because most golf fans on Wii got the WM enhanced TW10, and they are quite content with it.  There's just not enough new content/gameplay in TW11 to justify buying the same game again to the Wii's more casual base.  

Wii's audience is also more likely to be put off by the whole TW image problem.  I can't prove that with any metrics, but I know a lot of women who bought TW Wii for their boyfriends/husbands and you can bet they probably wouldn't want to give their money to a lying, cheating manwhore like Woods or encourage their guys to want to be like Woods.

Shovelware doesn't sell on Wii (unless it's at least half decent and fun) but exercise games do.  EA Sport Active is EA's biggest seller on Wii to date and one you can expect to see on PS3 and 360 soon.

I suppose, but is it not true that EA havn't really been giving Wii owners their AAA releases, and therefore shouldn't complain about sales of a franchise which, as you said, has everything going against it?



 

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