RolStoppable said:
oniyide said:
THe COD thing again, PS3 has not COD advertisment, or PC version, so whats their excuse? Ads are important but i think people put to much into them. People have to be interested. Even if those core Wii games were advertised a bit more, would the Carnival Game, Just Dance, WiiFIt crowd care?? I doubt it. Hell Conduit got a lot of ad time but that game still flopped hard and people know that their are CODs for Wii, they just dont care.
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Store presence, of course. You cannot overlook a new CoD for the PS3 when you go into a games store or the games section of a major retailer. CoD on the Wii is somewhere stuffed inbetween the shovelware, provided the store carries it at all.
But more importantly, the game that made the CoD series big was CoD4: Modern Warfare which had the tags of all platforms it was available on at the end of its commercials. It wasn't until later CoD games that Microsoft sponsored Activision. There was no disadvantage for the PS3 when CoD4: MW came out and it doesn't take much effort to go to a retailer and see if the new CoD is on the PS3 too, in case someone isn't sure because of the Xbox 360 commercials the series has nowadays. Activision didn't build a CoD fanbase on the Wii (2007 was CoD-less for the Wii) and didn't make any real efforts later on. Despite this lack of effort, they are still able to sell at least one million copies of their game.
How many people do you think that the "CG, JD, WF crowd" is? 99 % of all Wii owners? There are easily ten million Wii owners who would have cared about core games and if a company could sell to 10 % of them (different tastes among core gamers after all), they would have had a million seller on their hands. Of course, ads aren't everything. The quality of the game needs to be there too and your example of The Conduit clearly lacked in that department. The core gamer isn't going to settle for a High Voltage game when he is used to Twilight Princess and Super Mario Galaxy.
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They dont have unlimited retail space. PS360 versions of the game sell MILLIONS within days, thats alot of copies of a game in stores. Constrast that to the few thousand the Wii version sells in the same time frame, lets put our bias aside for a bit and see it from Acti's pov, why would they put more copies of a game that wont move that much units anyway?? they wouldnt, it makes no sense to do so. They need those shelves for the versions that do sell.
No MW1 did not make COD big, not big as it is now, people forget WAW was released later and actually sold less, so for a brief time the interest did go down. MW2 was the game that really made it the monster it is today and ironically that is when the exclusive advertisement started. Funny enough, the PS3 version still did alright. But Wii never even got that game so I will concede that point to you. Your dead wrong about not building a base, they have released COD games for about 4 years straight how is that not building a fanbase?? and they each keep getting better, but they seem to do worse. How is that possible that the WIi version is doing worst yearly while the others actually get better??
I think the JD crowd is large, im think maybe 75%, 60% the lowest, judging soley by the games that are largly sold. 10 million Wii owners who care about core?? Sure! but how much of those ones have another gaming platform, their are some people who truly believe that their is a loyalty thing among gamers. But i assure you, people like you are in the minority. I bet you that most of those ten million people, bought an HD console or PC a long time ago. Hate to use COD but ill go again, COD3 Wii version outsold the PS3 version, now the WIi version doesnt come anywhere close to the PS3 version. Whether you wanna blame Ninty or Acti or satan, its irrelevant, they left and never turned back
