Everyone pretty much hit the nail on the head. The game is complete trash on Wii, and it got an extremely low review score. I'm sure it's not horribly horrible, but from the screens posted in comparison with SM2 on GC, it looks like someone took a dump, wiped, and used that as the concept art.

koffieboon said: Could it be that Wii owners actually have a good taste and don't buy crappy games, unlike owners of the other consoles?

 Yes, that's why Red Steel is one of the best selling Wii games because of theat reasons exactly.

ckmlb said: koffieboon said: Could it be that Wii owners actually have a good taste and don't buy crappy games, unlike owners of the other consoles?  Yes, that's why Red Steel is one of the best selling Wii games because of theat reasons exactly.

 Red Steel had a lot of hype to back it up

Well you can't make an arguement about software sales strictly based on one game. In fact if you look at attach rates they are way higher on the Wii then the ps3, comparable as they came out around the same time. In fact if you look in japan the ps3's attach rate is quite troubling, selling far more consoles then games week after week, alot of people are probably buying it just for the blu-ray, whereas anyone who bought a Wii has no choice but to buy games, I don't imagine anyone is shelling out 250 bucks just to play one game, I expect even the most casual of users to at least purchase 4-5 games to justify buying the system, and the attach rate the Wii has had has pretty much backed that up.

As for Spiderman not selling well on the Wii it may just be competition, the ps3 has no other games in the top 20, meaning Spiderman 3 was all there is worth getting lately on the ps3, the 360 has 3 other games in there but also a much biger user base. The Wii has 5 other games on the top 20 which also shoots down your point about the Wii being proven a fad, and shows there was less room at the top for Spidey.

Of course the other titles are Nintendo made so you can argue the point of poor 3rd party game sales, but I still think it's not worth talking about until the high quality 3rd party offerings hit the system. After all as brought out Spidey was continually bashed as looking the worst on the Wii.

I also think another factor is the DS. Alot of kids who might of picked up the Wii spiderman probably own a DS and are consumed at the moment playing Pokemon. It probably is indirectly affecting sales.

Contrary to belief, some people actually enjoyed Red Steel. I purchased a copy and don't regret it at all. Even after all this time, I still play it from time to time. Unlike Spider-man which is just a rush job. Anyone who's smart will avoid that game. I was going to purchase a copy when it came out, but after talking to friends and reading reviews, I decided to stay away. The real sad part is that I enjoyed Spider-man 2 and was really looking forward to the Wii version. -Darkness

This is the first I've heard that the Wii is doomed because people *aren't* buying crap games. Usually people are always complaining that too many people are buying casual mini-game trash like WarioWare and Cooking Mama. Yet those games are probably better than the crap that is SpiderMan3, and look who's eating that up, the 360 and PS3 userbase. I'd rather have more well-designed games like WarioWare than rushed crap like SpiderMan3 any day.

This could be simply to just to low sales, or the fact that 3rd party developpers just don't seem to sale on the Wii.

 Red Steel and it's 900,000 copies sold say "hi".

SM3 sold this poorly because Vicarious Visions made the game and they as a developer should have been renamed to "Phail Phactory" years ago when they first hyped Terminus for years and then delivered garbage.

In other words, silly fanbot nonsense.

Red Steel wasn't bad. It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad. It was the first FPS on the Wii, and it was new, fresh experience. Spiderman 3 sucks balls, plain and simple. And even then, yes, maybe Wii users don't buy too many games...but that's because it's the "casual" crowd buying Wiis too, and they'll just play Sports and a couple other games. Just like with the PS2, there's going to be a lot of games that just don't sell...and then a bunch of games that do.

Also, the movie sucks balls.

So anybody pointing to Spiderman 3 on the Wii and telling me "This should have sold better!" is stupid. I would love nothing better than to see this crappy game fail, and apparently the Wii userbase agrees with me.

I think you have room to diss the Wii userbase if they actually BOUGHT Spiderman 3 for the Wii. It was rushed for the movie release and it's complete crap.

Oh come on: Harry's "Sooooo good" pie comment was worth sitting through 3 hours of MacGuire's stupid grin.