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How Many Wii Games Deserved to Sell a Million But Didn't?

EDIT: Add in why you think the game didn't sell...

Off the top of my head:

Okami (Advertising, wolf storyline not easy to sell on any console..ala PS2 sales)

Zack & Wiki (Name, cartoony look for a game that wasn't a kids game)

No More Heroes (Should have sold, poor overworld, but it still should have sold)

Marble Mania (Too Expensive. That's too bad as it was(is) a truly amazing game.)

Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) 2008 (Release months after the other versions, same for the upcoming 2009)

de Blob (New Ip, should have been $39.99) 

Boom Blox (Too pricey, marketed to young children instead of as a party game) This should have been on Wii Kiosks.

Medal of Honor : Heroes 2 (best FPS controls on the Wii) (Should have sold... 32 player multiplayer, and as a bonus you had the option to play the game on rails as a light gun shooter ala Ghost Squad) (It did have crappy graphics as it was a PSP port, but it is a GREAT game)

Godfather Blackhand edition (great controls, first adult game to 100% nail wii controls, it's still fun to go back and punch and strangle people almost 2 years later. I think it suffered as it originally came on the other consoles before  the Wii was released. This didn't stop RE4 from selling though)

Bully Scholorship Edition (amazingly fun, I had low expectations, it far exceeded them. This is not my type of game, but it was done really well)

Pinball's Greatest Hits The Williams Collection (Should hit a million. Hard to find, but it's the right price and the best pinball sim ever made)

Madden NFL 2009 All Play (Should have sold, but most EA sports fans are HD players, except for maybe Tiger woods fans)

Lego Indiana Jones (will hit a million)

Tiger Wood PGA 09 (Came out right as Wii Motion Plus was announced, which I'm sure will be used in next years version. That didn't help sales)

 

 



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I'd agree with all those except replace the very short and waaayy overprice Marble Mania with Mecury Meltdown which was a better, fuller game for 1/3 the price

And add CoDWaW which is an excellent game also deserving of 1m or more but probably won't get it.

Edit: Also Fire Emblem: RD, Endless Oceanand Godfather



 

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Well some of those might still make it too a million.
The one that deserves it the most though has to be NMH.



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What the hell is up with all this about how much a title "deserves" to sell?



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

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I would disagree with Okami, No More Heroes, Z&W, Godfather, Bully and possibly deblob.

Not because they aren't good games. (They are.) But because they aren't games that fit the mass market, or anything outside of a niche market in general.

The rest i don't know enough to comment on.



Product X Demand = Sales

Deserving = Does not compute.

But seriously there's a handful of PSP games that woulda sold a milly if it weren't for rampant piracy.




I agree with your list...but how many games hit a million that should not have (carnival games) making 3rd parties think they can put crap out on the system.



Million said:
Product X Demand = Sales

Deserving = Does not compute.

But seriously there's a handful of PSP games that woulda sold a milly if it weren't for rampant piracy.

I still disagree with this premise.

If it wasn't for piracy i think software sales wouldn't rise.

Instead, hardware sales would plummet... I mean the whole point of the PS3 is it's a portable multimedia device.  "Unlocked" devices like that are always the ones people want so they can get the most out of them.



Million said:
Product X Demand = Sales

What does this mean? Supply * Demand = sales? That seems wrong to me, but I cannot see anything else you could have meant.

 



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

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