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chapset on 22 October 2013
Mr Khan said:
Seece said:
Mr Khan said:
 

Then explain why Ubisoft farmed the game out to China and could still expect a quality product that would have been compelling to Wii U owners. The version's existence wasn't even advertised.

Trying to swat away the facts by calling them "ridiculous" does you no credit.

I agree they put little effort into the port, even if it had better treatment I'm still not sure it would have done a lot better :

Which brings up the other problem of chapset's attempted thread derailment: the game didn't sell that well anywhere. An anticipated title like Ghosts is at least going to get decent-to-good spillover sales. There wasn't any hype for it anywhere, so why single out the Wii U version?

thread derailement? you bring the same old excuses everytime a third party game fail on a Nintendo system the ol ''it's either malice or incompetance'' mombo jumbo



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PlayMatt on 22 October 2013

Since when is Beyond AAA? Just because of Mrs. Page?



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ethomaz on 22 October 2013

300k is good number... it will do over 1 million easy.



PlayMatt on 22 October 2013

And b!tch please? When is 300k First Week a flop? The new Zelda game took 3 weeks to reach 300k



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ethomaz on 22 October 2013
PlayMatt said:
Since when is Beyond AAA? Just because of Mrs. Page?





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DamnTastic on 22 October 2013
soulfly666 said:
Killzone Mercenary bombed way harder than Beyond and KZ is a WAAAAAAAY better game.

Not really.
KZ is at 110K on a handheld. They're on the same level imo



attaboy on 22 October 2013
BuckStud said:
attaboy said:
300k is a respectable number.


300k for a supposed AAA game on a system with a 80m base is not good at all.  They're not even remotely close to breaking even at this point.


Reviews suggest that, despite the big stars, it's not a AAA game.  Also, as a generation draws to a close, there are TONS of other options for the gaming dollar. Many of us predicted that the game would do sub-Heavy Rain numbers ages ago.  Games like this don't have million sale first weeks.  I think it will top out at 1.5 million which is respectable.  Of course, while a million is the benchmark we've set for ourselves on this site as "success", we've also seen games that sell several million be labeled as failures (ie: Tomb Raider and Hitman: Absolution).  It would help me if you could tell me the budget of the game.



DamnTastic on 22 October 2013
m0ney said:
Honestly this is the first time I hear about Wonderful 101 I was thinking flop among triple A games that get a lot of attention.

where the hell were you? :o
This game was everywhere on this forum around the release :P

And I believe I've read somewhere this game had x1.5 times the budget of Bayonetta 2



tiffac on 22 October 2013

Well B2S actually got to my expectation of 300k to 400k this week. Of course, it did the former rather than the later but I guess not bad for a niche game with mixed reviews and no digital copy.



beatles1082 on 22 October 2013

Beyond is easily a bigger flop than W101 or Rayman, I have been hearing about Beyond for what feels like an eternity, and the install base of Ps3 being as high as it is, 300k is way worse than the sales of those other games.

PlayMatt said:
And b!tch please? When is 300k First Week a flop? The new Zelda game took 3 weeks to reach 300k


Comparing the Wii U install base to the ps3 install base is foolish.