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erikers said:
Thanks to the Wii for proving even shitty games can consistently sell good on it and perpetuate more crappy games being made for it.

This is an obvious troll attempt that everyone is responding to for a reason, but I just love the logic here.

Worse games sell on the Wii? Well then, clearly it deserves more bad games! Don't give it high profile exclusives though.

And what would happen if bad games did not sell on the Wii? Companies would stop supporting it altogether. You don't have your games sell terribly and think "let's invest even more money into this platform."

 

Just pointing out, according to you, there is absolutely no way for the Wii to get better third party support. If third party support sells, then it deserves precisely what it's getting now. If it doesn't sell at all, I presume we can agree that third parties would pull out altogether. Hurray! Also, consider this a warning.



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FreeTalkLive said:

I liked the party game part of Secret Rings. It moved faster than Mario Party. However, the control was off in a lot of the party mini-games. The actually game had a good look and feel but I didn't figure out the control in the 30 min. I tried it. All in all, a bad rental. Lego Star Wars was a much better rental. I played it for 6 hours and even got someone else to play along for 4 of those and 2 other people played it for another hour.

Secret Rings = 5 hours play time
Lego Star Wars = 12 hours play time

I would never recommend Secret Rings to anyone. I'm gonna try Warioware for my next mini-game fix.

As for titles selling well on the Wii, of course. The Wii is quickly becoming the main console and will gain 50% of the market at some point.


You probably didn't even play Sonic long enough to unlock the better minigames.  I would recommend it over Mario Party 8 (assuming you play enough of the main game to unlock most things), but that isn't saying much I guess, as I really didn't care for that the one time I tried it as a rental...

Warioware is faster paced and requires a bit of time unlocking for multiplayer mode.  Depends on the auidance which is better as a party game, but generally warioware.



Congratulations to Sonic and Sega.



Great for Sega and Sonic. This proves that the blue hedgehog still has a big name in gaming and that he can bring money for Sega with good games. Hopefully they release a new 3D Sonic soon with even more effort (Secret Rings was actuallly only a side project to Sonic the Hedgehog...)



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I for one am still not pleased with Nintendo's third party support. Simply making money is a fine argument for those who own a 360 or PS3 to offset the lack of games, but when all you own is a Wii, those games like COD4, RE5, DMC4 and Assassin's Creed start to look pretty damn enviable.

The Wii is getting, for the most part, the scraps as it stands while the 360/PS3 get the big name games worthy of TV commercials while the Wii gets... Zack & Wiki and Umbrella Chronicles...



The Ghost of RubangB said:
1: Stop making shooters. Please. You're not Valve or Free Radical.
2: Stop trying to force photo-realism down my throat until you can get out of the uncanny valley. Work on style and presentation instead of just pixels and bloom.
3: Try something weird and new, and hope we like it.

You'll cut costs way more than you cut revenue, and thus increase profit.
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erikers said:
Thanks to the Wii for proving even shitty games can consistently sell good on it and perpetuate more crappy games being made for it.

You prefered the times when PS2 was the leader in that area? Cos if you try to make me believe all the best sellers on PS2 were AAA hardcore-type of games, sorry, you'll look silly...

And even so, two thirds of Wii's million sellers are simply excellent games and desearve their success, even if they are too "family oriented/casual" (as 85% of games sold in the industry)... it's a matter of taste, not quality...

It's also a proof Wii buyers have some taste, and buy only the good stuff out there... if you could only play these before trolling, you'd know what you're talkin' about... i took a look at your collection: with your FPS tastes, i'd suggest Metroid Prime 3, Resident Evil 4, or No More Heroes... feel the new control method... then we could talk... till then, please, STFU...



 

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4D Gamer III said:
I for one am still not pleased with Nintendo's third party support. Simply making money is a fine argument for those who own a 360 or PS3 to offset the lack of games, but when all you own is a Wii, those games like COD4, RE5, DMC4 and Assassin's Creed start to look pretty damn enviable.

The Wii is getting, for the most part, the scraps as it stands while the 360/PS3 get the big name games worthy of TV commercials while the Wii gets... Zack & Wiki and Umbrella Chronicles...

The Wii has been getting less high-profile third party games because it takes a lot of time to make such titles, and virtually no one ,except for a few nerds on the internet, had realised just how big the Wii was going to be when the ones coming out now started production.

So far Monster Hunter and Fatal Frame have gone Wii exclusive, at least Alone in the Dark and Street Fighter are coming to the the Wii as multiplats, and there's a boatload of other promising third party games on the way. 



To whoever asked how many Million sellers X360 had after 67 weeks.
http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=39145&console=X360&maker=&boxartz=1

Proof: PGR 3 was a launch title, and has been out 67 weeks here.

Total million sellers:

3
Gears Of War
Microsoft1743,5643,699,542
13
Call of Duty 3
Activision1710,096999,957
15
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Take 2509,7631,059,604
16
Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Ubisoft528,8941,209,748


Other million sellers, that were off the charts at week 67:

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=298 
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=1725
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=5109
(http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=4610) (not sure about this one)
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=483
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=1962

That is 11, I'm sure I've missed 2-3, so 13-14 titles. Xbox 360 had 12-15 million sellers after 67 weeks. That is 5-8 less than Wii.

14
Madden NFL 07
EA289,9301,536,373


http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

VG Chartz a oublié de citer Resident evil: Umbrella Chronicles qui vient de passer la barre du million d'exemplaires selon Capcom même. Ce qui fait un total de 21 million seller. VG Chartz forgot to say that RE:UC has just passed 1 miilion units as Capcom said. There are 21 million sellers on the Wii at this time. I'm sorry for my english... Thanks for all of you.



johnny1983 said:
VG Chartz a oublié de citer Resident evil: Umbrella Chronicles qui vient de passer la barre du million d'exemplaires selon Capcom même. Ce qui fait un total de 21 million seller. VG Chartz forgot to say that RE:UC has just passed 1 miilion units as Capcom said. There are 21 million sellers on the Wii at this time. I'm sorry for my english... Thanks for all of you.
Capcom's press release reported sold to retailers, VG Chartz tracks sold to consumers.