yushire said: Daileon said: The sad part is that only a few people KNOW what's WiiWare and how it works... LOL really? How can you say that? Wiiware will be a failure if most Wii owners dont know wiiware and how it works

David Braben: I think that's one of the issues actually with a lot of these online services, but particularly WiiWare - a lot of the customers aren't really aware that it's out there, the casual gamers dare I say it, so I think it'll be a fantastic thing, and that it will bolster our sales.

 

Daileon said: David Braben: I think that's one of the issues actually with a lot of these online services, but particularly WiiWare - a lot of the customers aren't really aware that it's out there, the casual gamers dare I say it, so I think it'll be a fantastic thing, and that it will bolster our sales.

Even if its true it could be worse, almost all wii owners dont know wiiware and it will be flopped.  I think David Braben just be contented that Lost Winds was the most selling game in wiiware so far. And yeah, of course alot of customers arent aware of wiiware, unless you want to include moms and kids to include on potential customers.

 

Daileon said: yushire said: Daileon said: The sad part is that only a few people KNOW what's WiiWare and how it works... LOL really? How can you say that? Wiiware will be a failure if most Wii owners dont know wiiware and how it works David Braben: I think that's one of the issues actually with a lot of these online services, but particularly WiiWare - a lot of the customers aren't really aware that it's out there, the casual gamers dare I say it, so I think it'll be a fantastic thing, and that it will bolster our sales.

 

A lot of people not knowing is NOT THE SAME as only a few people knowing. The Wii is fast approaching 30 million sales. Even if 20% of those know about WiiWare, those are 6 million people. That's still enough to make any WiiWare title a platinum seller.

That's awesome. No wonder they're already working on a sequel. :)

Daileon said: yushire said: Daileon said: The sad part is that only a few people KNOW what's WiiWare and how it works... LOL really? How can you say that? Wiiware will be a failure if most Wii owners dont know wiiware and how it works David Braben: I think that's one of the issues actually with a lot of these online services, but particularly WiiWare - a lot of the customers aren't really aware that it's out there, the casual gamers dare I say it, so I think it'll be a fantastic thing, and that it will bolster our sales.

Don't forget that the lack of external storage has no doubt hurt some sales. There are mainstream (not just gamer-focused) media articles on Wii Ware and the nuisance that there is no external or adequate storage solution for a lot of these games. My Mom (old lady that she is) has a Wii and didn't buy a single Wii Ware title despite having 1500 Wii points on her Wii and her flash drive being almost totally empty as she hasn't downloaded any VC games besides Pac-Man. She read an article on Yahoo or something that only pointed out negatives in the Wii about Wii Ware and the storage problems. She just assumed there wasn't enough room on the Wii to download this stuff. The Blue Ocean crowd doesn't quite understand everything about the Wii, so they hear one thing like this and it can be damaging to sales. This is why Nintendo needs to hurry the hell up with a storage solution. They are costing themselves untold numbers of sales.

Well, only about 40-50% of Wiis are online, so that slashes the potential market in half right there. The more cool online games (downloads and discs) come out, the more those users will be bothered to hook up their Wiis. If I were Frontier, I'd be cheering every time a game like Mario Kart comes out.

Resident_Hazard said:   Don't forget that the lack of external storage has no doubt hurt some sales. There are mainstream (not just gamer-focused) media articles on Wii Ware and the nuisance that there is no external or adequate storage solution for a lot of these games. My Mom (old lady that she is) has a Wii and didn't buy a single Wii Ware title despite having 1500 Wii points on her Wii and her flash drive being almost totally empty as she hasn't downloaded any VC games besides Pac-Man. She read an article on Yahoo or something that only pointed out negatives in the Wii about Wii Ware and the storage problems. She just assumed there wasn't enough room on the Wii to download this stuff. The Blue Ocean crowd doesn't quite understand everything about the Wii, so they hear one thing like this and it can be damaging to sales. This is why Nintendo needs to hurry the hell up with a storage solution. They are costing themselves untold numbers of sales.

Ninty says theyre working on it, cant you guys just wait? Its only less of the month till E3.

 

 

I hope their current success means that they'll be turning out some AAA disk-based Wii releases eventually.

Good to see someone succeed at the first try. Hope more developers jump on the Wii Ware boat.

LordTheNightKnight said: Daileon said: yushire said: Daileon said: The sad part is that only a few people KNOW what's WiiWare and how it works... LOL really? How can you say that? Wiiware will be a failure if most Wii owners dont know wiiware and how it works David Braben: I think that's one of the issues actually with a lot of these online services, but particularly WiiWare - a lot of the customers aren't really aware that it's out there, the casual gamers dare I say it, so I think it'll be a fantastic thing, and that it will bolster our sales.     A lot of people not knowing is NOT THE SAME as only a few people knowing. The Wii is fast approaching 30 million sales. Even if 20% of those know about WiiWare, those are 6 million people. That's still enough to make any WiiWare title a platinum seller.

 

Well... I think I can consider 20% (a guess number, too high for me) a few people.