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oniyide on 10 September 2011
Declan said:
oniyide said:
retroking1981 said:
scottie said:

I love the Nintendo trolling in this thread. The game sold bugger all on all platforms, and considering both the likelihood that the Wii and 3DS versions will have better legs, and the miniscule cost of porting PS360 games to the WiiDS compared to the cost of making the game in the first place, I would say that Ubisoft regrets making a driver game at all as much as they regret the Wii and 3DS versions in particular.


Neither the 3DS or Wii versions are ports, they're made from the ground of for each platform. Check out the Wii ign review:


http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/119/1192589p1.html

to add to this, yes it sold like crap on PS360, but it REALLY bombed on Wii and 3DS, not even  close to the HDs. Better legs??? Are you high on crystal meth?? You can probably count on one hand how much Wii games outlegged their HD counterparts. SWFU1 and nope even that was outlegged by PS3 eventually. I dont think ANY Wii game outlegged the HD counterpart. And how is anyone trolling Nintendo?? By saying these kinds of games dont sell as well as the HD 1s? Thats a damn fact. If i say dance games dont sell well on PS3 im i trolling Sony?? i will agree that Ubi probably regrets the whole thing

Driver won't, but others certainly have (e.g. the LEGO games, Sonic Unleashed, one of the Tiger Woods games I think).  Did you mean in a specific genre?

When i said outleg, i meant that they started selling better on HDs, but the Wii version passed them by, I cant think of a situation like this. Maybe Tiger Woods. As for SOnic and Lego they always sell better on Wii right out the gate. Notice those are more of your family friendly games



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Signalstar on 10 September 2011
oniyide said:
There was a 3DS game??


Lol your post reminded me of this.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gWECYYOSo

Please Watch/Share this video so it gets shown in Hollywood.

Signalstar on 10 September 2011
oniyide said:
There was a 3DS game??


Lol your post reminded me of this.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gWECYYOSo

Please Watch/Share this video so it gets shown in Hollywood.

wfz on 10 September 2011

I don't care at all about these games, so I don't care if they sell or not. Sucks for Ubi, though. =



reviniente on 10 September 2011
-Newcloud- said:
It does look like they wasted there time with those to platforms. Im shocked at the 3DS it finally gets a game and it does less the 400 units but then again nintendo is determined to prove to everyone that buying the 3DS was a bad idea

Maybe they should've bundle it with a racing wheel add-on.



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Mr Khan on 10 September 2011

I hadn't even heard of the game period

Driver Renegade was acknowledged early on, but how they hell can any game only sell 382 copies week one?



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

blkfish92 on 10 September 2011
Galaki said:
retroking1981 said:

Driver: San Francisco Sales (Wii) Week 1 : 2,336

Driver: Renegade Sales (3DS) Week 1: 382

Ubisoft must be pissed!


Dance or bust.


LOL, totally caught your drift ^^  

Very clever =D



           

Declan on 11 September 2011
oniyide said:
Declan said:
oniyide said:
retroking1981 said:
scottie said:

I love the Nintendo trolling in this thread. The game sold bugger all on all platforms, and considering both the likelihood that the Wii and 3DS versions will have better legs, and the miniscule cost of porting PS360 games to the WiiDS compared to the cost of making the game in the first place, I would say that Ubisoft regrets making a driver game at all as much as they regret the Wii and 3DS versions in particular.


Neither the 3DS or Wii versions are ports, they're made from the ground of for each platform. Check out the Wii ign review:


http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/119/1192589p1.html

to add to this, yes it sold like crap on PS360, but it REALLY bombed on Wii and 3DS, not even  close to the HDs. Better legs??? Are you high on crystal meth?? You can probably count on one hand how much Wii games outlegged their HD counterparts. SWFU1 and nope even that was outlegged by PS3 eventually. I dont think ANY Wii game outlegged the HD counterpart. And how is anyone trolling Nintendo?? By saying these kinds of games dont sell as well as the HD 1s? Thats a damn fact. If i say dance games dont sell well on PS3 im i trolling Sony?? i will agree that Ubi probably regrets the whole thing

Driver won't, but others certainly have (e.g. the LEGO games, Sonic Unleashed, one of the Tiger Woods games I think).  Did you mean in a specific genre?

When i said outleg, i meant that they started selling better on HDs, but the Wii version passed them by, I cant think of a situation like this. Maybe Tiger Woods. As for SOnic and Lego they always sell better on Wii right out the gate. Notice those are more of your family friendly games

Sorry - I understood your meaning, but for some reason had thought that these games did start a little better on the HD (I could have sworn LEGO SW III appeared higher in the charts on the 360 initially, but it seems I was wrong).  The only example I can find where the game did sell better on an HD initially but has ultimately sold better on the Wii is Beatles: Rock Band, but I suspect there are probably a few others.  Another non-traditional game (that's why i thought you might have meant specifically traditional genres in your original comment), but a game nonetheless.



menx64 on 11 September 2011

long hours of work, resources, an lots money were invested on making those games... I would have expected to see some adds or any reference at least between the HD comercials, but no... Just send the game out there and lets to see if a miracle happens... Sorry but that doesnt happen very often. And getting 30/100 from nintendo power doesnt really help either...



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