"Another Hardcore Lie Exposed: Third-Party Sales Actually Improved on Wii"

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oniyide on 10 May 2013

MikeRox said:

The key thing man people often seem to forget. Wii game development budgets were much lower than PS3/360 counterparts. So they didn't need as many sales to break even either. It's just publishers at the time were looking for COD numbers or bust.

I thought most of the Wii 3rd party games that were cited as the reasons 3rd party games don't sell well on Nintendo platforms were actually pretty poor as games. Probably get a lot of hate for this, but I actually shelled out full price for games like Mad World and felt very ripped off. Conduit was also while fairly technically impressive for a Wii game, very mediocre as an actual product. However later gems like Sonic Colours and Goldeneye sold very respectably on the platform.

YOu bought Madworld at full price? im sorry. on a side note, there were games that did real well that were terrible.

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oniyide on 10 May 2013

Cobretti2 said:

oniyide said:

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JazzB1987 said:

The reason is third party is not patient and expects to much. They think Nintendo gamers are the same gamers you find on ps360. (they forget that Nintendo systems dont have the large for example COD fanbase the PS3 has)

Well I somewhat agree with this, but I think the key issue this gen is the fact that MOST gamers this gen HAD to buy at least two consoles to get all their game fixes. If there was going to be any COD fans on Wii, they long left to PS360 when COD4 MW come out.

Before COD exploded, the user base of COD was somewhat comparible on all systems.

I honestly do not think Activision will get multi console users to buy CD on Wii U, they need to accept the core COD players moved to the HD Twins last gen and that the only way COD numbers wll grow on a Nintendo system is to convince new people to buy the game.

i disagree, the COD fanbase was always in favor on the 360. PS3 and Wii sales were comparable but that changed real quick.

Well obviously it would favor the HD twins for various reasons that made the game better on them, but I still think If COD4 come out on Wii, most Nintendo users would have been happy enough, especially with the Wii Remote controls. I reckon the userbase today would be between 3-5million. Not GREAT compared to PS360 but better than it is today.

possibly but that wouldnt explain why every release got worst sales on Wii, and no cant blame COD4 for that, because the game did eventually come and that wasnt even the most popular one.