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Yakuzaice on 16 December 2010
Cobretti2 said:

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.

Madworld did have television ads, and I'm sure it had magazine/internet/etc ads as well.  It wasn't a massive campaign, but I doubt a huge advertising budget would have done much for sales compared to the extra expense.



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Kyren on 16 December 2010
Mr. Fister said:

...and yet not a single word on Vanquish, which has only sold 360k units combined in the span of a month and a half.


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Cobretti2 on 16 December 2010
Yakuzaice said:
Cobretti2 said:

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.

Madworld did have television ads, and I'm sure it had magazine/internet/etc ads as well.  It wasn't a massive campaign, but I doubt a huge advertising budget would have done much for sales compared to the extra expense.


They didn't advertise here in Australia. I see no game tv ads on free to air. There are a few ads on paytv which most people cant afford so it really is pointless.



 

 

iasta on 16 December 2010

- Short and repetitive. it would have tank on HD consoles also, maybe sell a little better but not so much. Bayonetta that gets much better appeal (and reviews) didn't do much more better either (and the difference is because of Japan. and, if i remember well, could be because madworld release much later in Japan and with a 18 rating).



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Zlejedi on 16 December 2010
Shadowblind said:
nordlead said:

sure, and Bionic Commando possibly would have done better on Wii. Maybe the game was just lacking and not appealing.


Madworld: 81

Bionic Commando: 70

Though according to SEGA, Madworld selling 580k isn't enough?

Maybe because huge part of those sales were done at amazing price of <20$  ?

Even now you can get it for 4,93 pound with free UK postage included.  Whatever Sega gets from it hardly even covers costs of royalties for Nintendo those discs costed.



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Galaki on 16 December 2010
spurgeonryan said:

zack and wiki did fine for a little known game and madworld is at 600,000 now! Everybody thought the same thing for china town GTA for DS. When it came out on the psp it did horrible. Madworld was repetetive.


I remember how some people wouldn't shut up about Chinatown Wars would do better on PSP.

And then it was released on PSP. Suddenly, no a word about it.



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Lucas-Rio on 16 December 2010

SEGA is deluded.

Hardcore games does not sell either on PS3/360

 

Madworld: 580k

Vanquish: 360k

God Hand on PS2  flopped as much.



MrT-Tar on 16 December 2010

I highly doubt it would have sold better on PS3/360, even if it did not by much and this would be negated by the higher development costs.

I've played Madworld and I think it is an O.K game, but that is all.  It is by no means fantastic or even very good.  The reasons why this game didn't sell better, were not that it was on the Wii IMO.  It was the art style (I know 2 people who were put off by it), the length, almost no advertising (I saw none whatsoever in the U.K) and the lack of online.  Hell, even God Hand didn't exactly set the charts on fire and that was on the PS2.




Linkasf on 16 December 2010

Sorry but this game wasn't very good at all. I hate it when these kinds of games are brought up after they fail because the game it self wasn't that good to begin with.



Lucas-Rio on 16 December 2010

Madworld was very good.

 

One of the most fun game this generation. But too hardcore to sell on all consoles.