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Smash_Brother on 10 January 2008
Game_boy said:

You see? "Wii will get a port". Let's put the graphically poor (Yes, I own it), family friendly, party game on Wii and use the big profits from it to fund an even bigger and better game on platforms where we haven't ever had success and probably won't this time. Oh, and the Wii may get a cut down port if we're merciful.


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I suppose Sega was bound to do more with the olympic license, but it's still irksome.

Also, it was the combined Mario and Sonic licenses which made M&S Olympics sell so well. I don't recall olympic games ever really selling that well.



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ClaudeLv250 on 10 January 2008

I don't get it.

Why is this game supposed to be better or taking some kind of priority over Mario & Sonic? M&S is the game flying off the shelves and will continue to be for month to come.



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totalwar23 on 10 January 2008
Machina-AX said:
totalwar23 said:
Musouka said:
Why are you so enraged?

It's basically a "Make crappy games for the Wii, sit back, and let the cash roll in and then use that money to develop more serious projects for the other platforms" perspective.


Well if the crappy game for the Wii sells, and sells better than the serious project, you can hardly blame them for doing it.


 

And yet if Wii owners don't buy it, they'll go "See, Wii owners don't support third party publishers. We'll just sticking to developing for the 360, PS3, PC." Lose, lose, either way.


routsounmanman on 10 January 2008
densiyrex said:
Chadius said:
densiyrex said:
Chadius said:
You do realize Sega is using profits from M&S for other games BESIDES Beijing 2008, right?

Right?

You do realize I was not being serious about just the money for this. It was the point I wanted to make.


So what was the point?

 

I mean, is there an Olympics game that actually sold better than M&S recently?

People are drawing conclusions that Beijing 2008 will be super excellent and will fly off the shelves and Wii owners will miss out on the Olympics game they'll miss out on, and I want to put this in perspective before mass hysteria breaks out.


You don't get it.

the wii gets mario and sonic and friends

the other consoles get the official license meaning the official people. That participate ( wii never did)

Next to that they get online play( they did not even think about putting online play in m&s)

and last they get a special control way.Who knows sega could include a wiimote clone a like and sell millions just because of that it will have the same controls as the wii but with the real license and online play.

I could see sega actually do that.


It's certificate, and Mario & Sonic is also an official Beijing 2008 Olympics game bearing that.



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HomerS on 10 January 2008

you guys are narrow minded to believe that they took the M&S money to make the Beijing game, they probably even started the bejing game a long time before they started working on M&S bigger budget projects usually also take longer to get finished.

geez i'm a nintendo fan and wii owner and i dont have any hard feelings about that



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Gamerace on 10 January 2008

Guys think about it. Sega predicted M&S would sell 4m. And look at the development put in it. An official Olympics game launched that late will only sell for a couple months tops, and will not sell anywhere's near that much. Maybe 500k. Plus development costs will be much higher. Sega isn't going to spend a ton of M&S $$ on this game only to lose it. Most likely this game will be an even cheaper cash in than M&S.

Not if I'm wrong and it's the best Olympics game ever... Well... Then you can be mad.



 

Avinash_Tyagi on 10 January 2008

Meh, this won't be as much fun as the Mario and Sonic game



 

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brute on 10 January 2008

this game wont sell well,so i wouldnt be suprised if they later port it to wii



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Gazz on 10 January 2008
densiyrex said:

source: dutch site but they got it from:

http://www.videospiele.com/news_8198+Beijing+2008+Sega+pr%E4sentiert+das+offizielle+Spiel+PlayStation+3.html


I'm not sure if I am interested in a opinion about Sega from a guy who doesn't know the difference between Dutch and German.




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zerosaurus on 10 January 2008

I bet you when the sales for that Beijing 2008 game eventually dwindle and you compare its lifetime sales to Mario & Sonic, sega will realize the cashcow that is Mario.

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