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NJ5 on 20 February 2009
LordTheNightKnight said:
The 360 version sold better overseas than in Japan. They don't take well to sandbox games there. And Capcom didn't expect it to sell a lot, or else they would have shipped more.

Plus this is a WII GAME. Why do you people ALWAYS FORGET you can't use opening sales?

Now the game could still sell poorly (as Okami unfortunately did), but claiming it dead on the first day?

I don't care if you hate it. That's outright ignorance of a pattern that has shown up again and again.

Where did I say the game is dead?

 



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largedarryl on 20 February 2009

Well based on this comic, I wonder if it is going to sell.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/



dbot on 20 February 2009

Why do we want this to fail? Do we hate Capcom for the lack of Wii support, or is it something else? I just want to be sure.



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

arsenal009 on 20 February 2009

@NJ5, don't forget the god awful graphics.



NJ5 on 20 February 2009
dbot said:
Why do we want this to fail? Do we hate Capcom for the lack of Wii support, or is it something else? I just want to be sure.

I can not speak for all, but for me... because I don't want this sort of development to be encouraged by the market. If the game is as bad as it looks, I want it to flop into oblivion so that it can stand as a lesson to Capcom and others.

 



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LordTheNightKnight on 20 February 2009
NJ5 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
The 360 version sold better overseas than in Japan. They don't take well to sandbox games there. And Capcom didn't expect it to sell a lot, or else they would have shipped more.

Plus this is a WII GAME. Why do you people ALWAYS FORGET you can't use opening sales?

Now the game could still sell poorly (as Okami unfortunately did), but claiming it dead on the first day?

I don't care if you hate it. That's outright ignorance of a pattern that has shown up again and again.

Where did I say the game is dead?

 

 

The title. Or did you pay attention to what you typed? You wrote that a Wii game flopped, even in one region, on the first day. That is not a valid claim, because Wii sales patters do not work that way.

The system has had some mediocre sellers, but you couldn't properly declare that until at least three or four months.



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Kasz216 on 20 February 2009

Who can say... Capcom's Wii strategy seems to largely be to overpromise and underdeliver... then pretend they didn't underdeliver and complain their games haven't sold.



NJ5 on 20 February 2009
LordTheNightKnight said:

 

The title. Or did you pay attention to what you typed? You wrote that a Wii game flopped, even in one region, on the first day. That is not a valid claim, because Wii sales patters do not work that way.

The system has had some mediocre sellers, but you couldn't properly declare that until at least three or four months.

OK. Maybe I should have written "looks like it flopped in Japan". I mean a 20k shipment and 6k first day sales look very bad when the 360 game sold 21k in its first week.

Could the game have legs? Yeah but I wouldn't bet on it all things considered.

 



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Shanobi on 20 February 2009
LordTheNightKnight said:
The 360 version sold better overseas than in Japan. They don't take well to sandbox games there. And Capcom didn't expect it to sell a lot, or else they would have shipped more.

Plus this is a WII GAME. Why do you people ALWAYS FORGET you can't use opening sales?

Now the game could still sell poorly (as Okami unfortunately did), but claiming it dead on the first day?

I don't care if you hate it. That's outright ignorance of a pattern that has shown up again and again.

 

Exactly.

 



 

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SmokedHostage on 20 February 2009

Quick question.. how well did the 360 version sell there? I can't really call it a flop knowing the Japanese demographic.



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