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LordTheNightKnight on 20 February 2009
Ail said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Ail said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Ail said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
"I think the problem with saying Dead Rising will have legs"

That wasn't what I wrote. Read my comment again.

 

You said 

"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."

 

So what exactly were you trying to say if you were not trying to tell us that the game would sell better on later days ?(ie : have legs)

 

 

See the bolded word? That's not the same as "would".

And the bolded part was what I was commenting about.

As there is no such pattern for Japan Wii third parties.

 

 

That's a lie. I listed some. Did you choose to ignore that post?

"It has bad press and bad forum talk almost entirely."

No, you just think it's almost entire.

Here is your list :

Rayman Raving Rabbids : total sales 20k ( ok it was still selling 1k units/week after a few weeks, I know CRAZY LEGS)

We Ski : 140K ( Week 1 were 22k, dropped bellow 10k pretty fast)

Umbrella Chronicles : 280k ( 109k first week, 50% of total sales in 2 weeks, what legs ?)

Cooking Mama  : 50k ( sales bellow 2k starting week 5, bellow 3k week 2).

So I might give you We Ski, I'm not sure what the others are doing on your list..........

 

 

 

 

Again, I didn't mean contant sellers. Those had slower sales drops than typical front-loaded games, which is a form of legs.



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outlawauron on 20 February 2009
theRepublic said:
outlawauron said:
Soriku said:
megaman79 said:
Soriku said:
I haven't seen many people from Capcom say anything like that except Sven.

For people who supposedly complain they sure seem content with putting games like RE4 and MH3 on Nintendo systems.

 

RE4 is a port and MH3 probably cost Nintendo a shitload of Saki, karaoke and Yen. Like i said in another thread MH3 is probably going to be the most expensive 3rd party Wii title yet.

Meant the GC version, which was the superior version last gen.

Are you kidding? The PS2 version was much better than the Gamecube version!

I hope you are joking.

Not at all. I liked the extra content on the PS2 version better than the Gamecubes faster loading times.



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shakarak on 20 February 2009

I actually want this game to succeed. Contrary to everyone else it seems.



largedarryl on 23 February 2009

Well to try and add to this thread, Dead Rising: CTYD is not a very good port. One of the best aspects of the original was the camera.

Now you are playing a photographic journalist in a zombie infected mall, but without your camera, colour me confused, but that doesn't make any sense.



LordTheNightKnight on 23 February 2009
largedarryl said:
Well to try and add to this thread, Dead Rising: CTYD is not a very good port. One of the best aspects of the original was the camera.

Now you are playing a photographic journalist in a zombie infected mall, but without your camera, colour me confused, but that doesn't make any sense.

 

No, that just means they took out a feature you liked. That doesn't make it a bad port (not even really a port).



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waron on 23 February 2009

well as wii owner i'm looking forward to this game so. besides 6.4k first day is great number, but i guess everything that sell less than 40k first day automatically flops for some people.
this is almost 3-year-old "port" of a game that didn't sold in japan good at all. dead rising on 360 sold less than 80k LTD with quite big ad campaing. so what do you expect from really late port with little to no advertisement from pretty unpopular in japan genre? even capcom predicted 500k LTD sales worldwide



koffieboon on 23 February 2009
largedarryl said:
Well to try and add to this thread, Dead Rising: CTYD is not a very good port. One of the best aspects of the original was the camera.

Now you are playing a photographic journalist in a zombie infected mall, but without your camera, colour me confused, but that doesn't make any sense.

You can hardly call it a zombie infected mall anymore either, unless Capcom already knew the economic crisis was coming and it is meant to represent a mall during the worst part of the recession...

 



Squall_Leonhart on 23 February 2009

I think if games like these fail, where the 3rd party companies are giving the console games similar to the HD consoles, then it is more likely to be another nail in the coffin that is 3rd party support rather than a turn-around for them to take the wii more seriously...



mike_intellivision on 23 February 2009
Soriku said:
Kasz216 said:
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.

 

Actually, only Sven complains.

 

I wonder if it was Sven who commissioned a $2M TV ad buy for Zack & Wiki in Japan. Using his ratios, that was an expected sale of 400k-500k for the game --- if that was the worldwide PR budget.

 

I cannot fathom how Capcom stays in business with decisions like this.

 

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Mr.Y on 23 February 2009
Zucas said:

Exactly.  Which is why EA was smart with Dead Space to not do a direct 3rd person adventure because it would have been subject to the same automatic unjustified hate Dead Rising is getting.

 

Have you seen the original Xbox Dead Space demonstration video?