Are you saying that 360 and PS3 owners would want a game that amp316 completed in 3 hours and 48 minutes more than Wii owners did? 

How hardcore is that? 

Madworld was dropped to bargin bin price after ~2 weeks I believe.

Hey people bought too human.

It would have also cost more to make in HD and it would have been competing in a much more saturated market on the HD consoles.  On the Wii, Madworld is unique.  On the HD consoles, it's just another blood-soaked button-masher.  They chose not to advertise it, they chose to only make it a couple hours long, and they chose to basically make it a puzzle game in which you try to score X amount of points as quickly as you can to unlock a boss fight.  That's the whole game.

I loved the visuals and the boss battles, but outside of the boss battles, there were really only 2 or 3 things that you did over and over for a couple of hours.  Considering that the game was too short, too repetitive, and not advertised at all, I think selling half a million copies isn't even that bad.

They should have made the game even SHORTER, and sold it for $15.  Then when people bought it, they'd go online and say "Hey that was pretty awesome for only $15," instead of "Biggest waste of $50 all year."  The game was fun, but it actually had negative word of mouth.

Yeah but the critics suck. Bionic was an epic game looking back on it.

Well, I never finished No More Heroes on the Wii.  It just didn't feel right.  With that said, I CAN'T WAIT to buy that game for the PS3 when it finally comes out.  Same thing goes for Madworld.  I was hyped for the game.  I even had it in my hand at the games store before I finally walked out with Sega's other game released at almost the same time, Overkill.  I never did get around to buying Madworld, even when I saw it selling for $6.  Any I think I would actually pay $60 for it if it were for the PS3/360.

I don't think anyone is saying that flops never happen on Wii. It is just that porting from one system to another doesn't automatically make a flop a success, which a lot of developers seem to think so. Wii is multi-owned with HD consoles a lot. I don't think it matters if you make a game on the HD twins or Wii, there should be enough "hardcore" gamers that you can sell anything on any system if you put in a good effort, come up with something good and actually advertise the game properly.

Please the game is average at best:

1. too short.

2. black and white doesn't appeal to many people (it is a unique crowd thing).

3. no advertising.

etc..

look at other average games on PS3 or 360 they would have similar numbers.

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I'm gonna keep repeating it until people take notice. Madworld's first NPD was larger than Vanquish's. The only advantage Vanquish has is that it is on two consoles instead of one. If it was exclusive it would've been quite the bigger failure.

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Even WORSE. All at MUCH higher budgets and production values.

Haters gonna hate.

All this game needed to sell more was a 40 color palete instead of black and white and marketing.

as it is, its a very nich title, I'm surprised it actually sold 580k....