scottie said:
Jan 1st - 15th March 2006 - 0 sales Dec 31 - Mar 10 2007 - 2.27 million Dec 30 - Mar 8 2008 3.04 million Dec 28 - Mar 7 2009 4.28 million
Look at that, huge slowdown. It's almost negative sales by this point |
I was talking about Japan. Death and rise of every console always starts in Japan.
I don't think it's a enough for a bingo, but there are definitely several spaces covered.
It will be a bad thing if developers only try to imitate the top 5 games on the system. And if they don't try to advance current gens like Madworld, No More Heroes, and some of the new announced rpgs seem to be doing. The worst thing that I've noticed is that so many of the new games like Zack and Wiki or No More Heroes (even Boom Blox someone wrote on here it was selling like gangbusters but checking Wii numbers here today in anticipation of games I want to get when I get mine, I see that it has only sold .90 million copies) and that are some of the system's best games seem to have poor sales. Wii sales do seem to be top heavy towards certain types of things while quite a few of its best core titles have very poor sales especially with the system having a userbase that big. .40 million for No More Heroes is unexcusable.
Nintendo said that their goal with the Wii was to expand the market of videogames and attract many new people to gaming, and they've obviously done that. However, I often see forum posts where people say that this is for the benefit of every type of game, but I seriously doubt that every type of game and gamer has benefited from it so far.
Heavens to Murgatoids.
| BTFeather55 said: It will be a bad thing if developers only try to imitate the top 5 games on the system. And if they don't try to advance current gens like Madworld, No More Heroes, and some of the new announced rpgs seem to be doing. The worst thing that I've noticed is that so many of the new games like Zack and Wiki or No More Heroes (even Boom Blox someone wrote on here it was selling like gangbusters but checking Wii numbers here today in anticipation of games I want to get when I get mine, I see that it has only sold .90 million copies) and that are some of the system's best games seem to have poor sales. Wii sales do seem to be top heavy towards certain types of things while quite a few of its best core titles have very poor sales especially with the system having a userbase that big. .40 million for No More Heroes is unexcusable. Nintendo said that their goal with the Wii was to expand the market of videogames and attract many new people to gaming, and they've obviously done that. However, I often see forum posts where people say that this is for the benefit of every type of game, but I seriously doubt that every type of game and gamer has benefited from it so far. |
Actually 900K is very good sales for a puzzle game and given the likely development costs, very profitable. EA has said that they are quite pleased. That said I think the game deserved more; it's one of my favorites.
Offtopic: The only thing I think motion controls are not good for is turned based RPGs. And I'll be damned if motion controls being the new standard means the end of turned based!
Ontopic: This guy is crazy. This article is also so a year and a half ago...
The only thing that I thought could prevent the Wii from outselling the shit out of everything was lack of new releases. Reality keeps proving me wrong every single damn week. I want to say that Japan is starting to make sense again, but I don't want to eat crow later when it gets a new color and becomes suddenly hot again.
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@johann: Although I agree about motion controls for turn based RPG, they would be great with IR point and click on the menus... It's annoying holding the control sideways...
| BTFeather55 said: It will be a bad thing if developers only try to imitate the top 5 games on the system. And if they don't try to advance current gens like Madworld, No More Heroes, and some of the new announced rpgs seem to be doing. The worst thing that I've noticed is that so many of the new games like Zack and Wiki or No More Heroes (even Boom Blox someone wrote on here it was selling like gangbusters but checking Wii numbers here today in anticipation of games I want to get when I get mine, I see that it has only sold .90 million copies) and that are some of the system's best games seem to have poor sales. Wii sales do seem to be top heavy towards certain types of things while quite a few of its best core titles have very poor sales especially with the system having a userbase that big. .40 million for No More Heroes is unexcusable. Nintendo said that their goal with the Wii was to expand the market of videogames and attract many new people to gaming, and they've obviously done that. However, I often see forum posts where people say that this is for the benefit of every type of game, but I seriously doubt that every type of game and gamer has benefited from it so far. |
What I was intending to say there was if all developers decide to try to imitate Wii Sports, Wii Play, etc, when making games for the Wii then that would be a bad thing imo because many of them should focus on making better games in traditional genres than we've seen in the past like the developers of Madworld, No More Heroes, Fragile, and Kizuna seem to be doing.
Now I believe that poor sales for certain types of games and better sales for other types of games will influence the types of games we see made in the future. I prefer more traditional types of games and games with mature storylines, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed in hopes that Madworld sold at least 500,000 copies last week. I would like to see one of the rpgs come out and have really strong sales as well. And if a GTA game comes to the Wii, I hope it gets respect from the critical community and sells as well as games like Zelda and Galaxy.
Heavens to Murgatoids.
| BTFeather55 said: .40 million for No More Heroes is unexcusable. |
Heh.
wii will not slow down but overall i agree with you. Most casual games are repetitive but the nintendo games are very good. I think the wii will continue to sell well. I think nintendo needs to worry more about next gen than the wii.
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BTFeather55 said:
What I was intending to say there was if all developers decide to try to imitate Wii Sports, Wii Play, etc, when making games for the Wii then that would be a bad thing imo because many of them should focus on making better games in traditional genres than we've seen in the past like the developers of Madworld, No More Heroes, Fragile, and Kizuna seem to be doing. Now I believe that poor sales for certain types of games and better sales for other types of games will influence the types of games we see made in the future. I prefer more traditional types of games and games with mature storylines, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed in hopes that Madworld sold at least 500,000 copies last week. I would like to see one of the rpgs come out and have really strong sales as well. And if a GTA game comes to the Wii, I hope it gets respect from the critical community and sells as well as games like Zelda and Galaxy. |
Madworld didn't sell 500,000 copies this wekk so let's squash that expectation right now.
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