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SnesTea on 03 March 2011
Mr. Fister said:
Snesboy said:
noname2200 said:
Snesboy said:

Too bad they're true. My Wii has an inch of dust on it.

I suggest moving out of your parents' air ducts, then.  You could at least guilt them into giving you a corner in the garage...

Lol. Electronics collect dust regardless of if you play them or not. I play my nintendo Wii like 4 times a week for a few hours each time. It has a thick coat of dust on it because I don't care.

And it's a shame Eurocom doesn't know that there are 40 million Wii's in America :/

Which is why that statement was always stupid to begin with. If you're gonna use a fancy metaphor for saying "I haven't played my Wii in ages", at least make it one that's technically accurate.

[/pseudo-rage]

I'm sorry Mr. Fister. Unfortunately, I played Wii today. So I can't exactly say it's covered in dust. Or that I haven't played it in ages.



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palancas7 on 03 March 2011
DrYon said:

The funny thing is that the media is doing their best to not report this at all. The major gaming sites are not reporting this. If GoldenEye 007 bombed on Wii, anti-Wii biased sites like 1UP would be the first to publish on their first page such news.


Damn right lol.



 

Seece on 03 March 2011
RolStoppable said:

Slimebeast really is an awesome poster.

On topic: I like Eurocom's explanation. An industry that pretends that the majority of Wii sales never happened is a sensible reason why third parties didn't put more quality games on the platform. And this isn't the first time that a third party developer stated a flat out wrong number for Wii sales.

To be fair, i doubt any core games developer thinks they can tap into anyone who bought a Wii for Wii Fit. Just a totally different audience. He's still waaaay off the mark with 12 mill figure, maybe that's the figure he thinks he can tap into.



 

Shadowfest3 on 03 March 2011

I bought Goldeneye 007 and Blacks Ops for the Wii because it supported the Classic Controller Pro.  I'm a FPS fan and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get use to using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.  I am use to playing FPS on the PS3 and 360 controllers that have dual analog. 



Conegamer on 03 March 2011
Seece said:
RolStoppable said:

Slimebeast really is an awesome poster.

On topic: I like Eurocom's explanation. An industry that pretends that the majority of Wii sales never happened is a sensible reason why third parties didn't put more quality games on the platform. And this isn't the first time that a third party developer stated a flat out wrong number for Wii sales.

To be fair, i doubt any core games developer thinks they can tap into anyone who bought a Wii for Wii Fit. Just a totally different audience. He's still waaaay off the mark with 12 mill figure, maybe that's the figure he thinks he can tap into.

Iwata's GDC Keynote showed that there was at least another 50% of the market to tap into...

So I think he just messed up on figures (maybe he's using the Europe numbers? I dunno...)



 

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Mr. Fister on 03 March 2011
Snesboy said:
Mr. Fister said:
Snesboy said:
noname2200 said:
Snesboy said:

Too bad they're true. My Wii has an inch of dust on it.

I suggest moving out of your parents' air ducts, then.  You could at least guilt them into giving you a corner in the garage...

Lol. Electronics collect dust regardless of if you play them or not. I play my nintendo Wii like 4 times a week for a few hours each time. It has a thick coat of dust on it because I don't care.

And it's a shame Eurocom doesn't know that there are 40 million Wii's in America :/

Which is why that statement was always stupid to begin with. If you're gonna use a fancy metaphor for saying "I haven't played my Wii in ages", at least make it one that's technically accurate.

[/pseudo-rage]

I'm sorry Mr. Fister. Unfortunately, I played Wii today. So I can't exactly say it's covered in dust. Or that I haven't played it in ages.


Oh, that wasn't directed towards you specifically. Apologies. I just needed to get that out of my system.



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Zlejedi on 03 March 2011
amp316 said:
Slimebeast said:
amp316 said:
noname2200 said:
Slimebeast said:

So how many copies did it sell? 100K? 250K?

Well, I know amp bought like ten copies, so 15-20 is my guess.


Hehe.  It's over a million now.

Is this Golden Eye remake we're talking about? 1 million? On downloads or retail?

GoldenEye for the Wii has sold over a million copies.

So just a milion or two more and it'll get close to what succesfull new IPs like Bioshock or Borderlands sold on X360/PS3 not counting PC sales.

Tryly amazing achievment for a game released on a console with highest userbase, being remake of one of legendary games for Nintendo faithfull and having connection to huge movie IP.



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LordTheNightKnight on 03 March 2011
Zlejedi said:
amp316 said:
Slimebeast said:
amp316 said:
noname2200 said:
Slimebeast said:

So how many copies did it sell? 100K? 250K?

Well, I know amp bought like ten copies, so 15-20 is my guess.


Hehe.  It's over a million now.

Is this Golden Eye remake we're talking about? 1 million? On downloads or retail?

GoldenEye for the Wii has sold over a million copies.

So just a milion or two more and it'll get close to what succesfull new IPs like Bioshock or Borderlands sold on X360/PS3 not counting PC sales.

Tryly amazing achievment for a game released on a console with highest userbase, being remake of one of legendary games for Nintendo faithfull and having connection to huge movie IP.


You are ignoring the neglect causing customers who would have bought more to leave, and the fact that such games get almost no marketing (Goldeneye still had a fraction compared to a lot of the HD games), and that it's still selling.



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LordTheNightKnight on 03 March 2011
Seece said:
RolStoppable said:

Slimebeast really is an awesome poster.

On topic: I like Eurocom's explanation. An industry that pretends that the majority of Wii sales never happened is a sensible reason why third parties didn't put more quality games on the platform. And this isn't the first time that a third party developer stated a flat out wrong number for Wii sales.

To be fair, i doubt any core games developer thinks they can tap into anyone who bought a Wii for Wii Fit. Just a totally different audience. He's still waaaay off the mark with 12 mill figure, maybe that's the figure he thinks he can tap into.


That's not being fair. Hosing a whole segment of Wii customers because of one game that covers only a quarter of the userbase is not fair in any way, nor is trying to defend a position due to that.



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

Zlejedi on 03 March 2011
LordTheNightKnight said:
Zlejedi said:
amp316 said:
Slimebeast said:
amp316 said:
noname2200 said:
Slimebeast said:

So how many copies did it sell? 100K? 250K?

Well, I know amp bought like ten copies, so 15-20 is my guess.


Hehe.  It's over a million now.

Is this Golden Eye remake we're talking about? 1 million? On downloads or retail?

GoldenEye for the Wii has sold over a million copies.

So just a milion or two more and it'll get close to what succesfull new IPs like Bioshock or Borderlands sold on X360/PS3 not counting PC sales.

Tryly amazing achievment for a game released on a console with highest userbase, being remake of one of legendary games for Nintendo faithfull and having connection to huge movie IP.


You are ignoring the neglect causing customers who would have bought more to leave, and the fact that such games get almost no marketing (Goldeneye still had a fraction compared to a lot of the HD games), and that it's still selling

If consumers are leaving then there's even more reasons to not develop games for Wii since you don't know how many of them will remain active at all in 12-24 months time after you finished development.

For me sales of Golden Eye are another proof that only reasons to develop on Wii are low budget (Conduit/Madworld/Muramasa) or a good IP to revive. If all you want is good return of investment it's better to develop another party/sports/fitness game or invest into platformer title.



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