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Cleary397 on 04 December 2013
superhippy420 said:
Cleary397 said:

Because 100 million people own a Wii. And probably around 20-40% of that bought it purely for dance games.


Considering that the highest selling Just Dance on Wii sold 9.75 million I really dount that it is 40 percent but I get the point.   I remember having DDR on my PS1 and 2 back in the day and that was when Video Game dancing was for nerds.

Yeah maybe a bit of an over exaggeration on my part ^-^



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Metallicube on 04 December 2013

I thought all teh cazuals went to mobile phones and tablets??



oniyide on 04 December 2013
superhippy420 said:
oniyide said:
superhippy420 said:
oniyide said:
curl-6 said:
oniyide said:
curl-6 said:
And the internet would have us believe casual gaming on consoles is dead...


please, the game is on track to sell even worst than last years version on WIi which itself sold even less than the original JD game. What did the casuals buy for the rest of the year? Dead might not be the term but it shrank for sure.

For the rest of the year they bought Skylanders and Disney Infinity. Casual gamers by their nature don't buy games as frequently as we do.

those arent exactly doing gangbusters either. But you are right, which IMHO its such a hard market. Core gamers buy games all year round and in greater variety.


Theres alot of games out there that are not doing as well of their earlier releases.  Battlefield, Batman, even COD.   People are getting burned out of the same stuff being released over and over.


yeah thats true across the board no matter what the genre, BUT and its a big BUT, its looks crazier with something like JD (and COD) that is used to putting up big numbers and over time it goes down until it just vanishes. I might be calling it too soon, but reminds me of Guitar Hero, within one gen they just flat out stopped making the games anymore.


I'm with you on that one.  In 5-7 years unless Activision starts putting out some new quality stuff they are in deep trouble.  They already killed Guitar Hero and after looking at the COD Ghosts sales, they are killing that too.   Skylanders is a cool fad but that no doubt will wear off too.

its already showing signs of slow down and frankly it was never that big not GH COD big anyway.



Rogerioandrade on 04 December 2013
shakarak said:
superhippy420 said:
pokoko said:
superhippy420 said:

Just Dance 2014 for the Wii.    I know its on sale for a good price to anyone who wants it but this had me cracking up.   A dancing game for the freaking Wii of all things is #1.   No wonder Ubisoft is the #1 3rd party company that supports the Wii U, the last thing they want to do is get on Nintendo's s**t list.

Why?  What is Nintendo going to do?  Forbid them from making games for the Wii U?  Not sure how that would play out as a bargaining chip.

No but Nintendo is very picky about what 3rd Party games they do market.  I don't know if you have seen the new Wii U commercials but they mention Rayman Legends in it, when they could just mention a 1st party game like Wonderful 101 or Pikmin.   On top of that companies want their games featured on the front of the e-shop, even if people just click on them for videos and info.   Monster Hunter, which is Capcom obviously, was front and center for a long time...theres a reason why you dont hear a peep from Capcom about Nintendo either.   Corporations tend to deal with eachother in a similar way to how regular people deal with business, just on a larger scale.


This is a well thought out answer.   Ubisoft and Nintendo do seem to have a very friendly relationship (for the most part).


They know there is some business to be made, and profits to get. Not only Just Dance but also Rayman Legends sold better on Nintendo consoles.