Kenny said: Well, looks like I hit this thread a bit late...
Still, I'm wonder many more NPDs like this will we have to see before people are finally forced to abandon the talking point that third party games don't sell on the Wii, and fall back to another one. |
Nah. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Wii haters will still cherry-pick each and every time a third party game does bad on the Wii and use it as evidence that third-party games don't sell.
Also note on that NPD chart that the Wii version of Lego Indiana Jones outsold even the mighty DS, and that Rock Band - despite being little more than a PS2 port released over half a year after the fact - still managed 12th place.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom