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bardicverse on 20 March 2009
alfredofroylan said:
jefforange89 said:
Of course, "hardcore" games don't sell on Wii. Just ask Brawl, SMG, Twilight Princess, RE4, RE: UC, Mario Kart Wii, Red Steel, COD5, Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime 3, as well as a ton of others!

That hardcore/casual bullcrap is getting annoying and pointless.

Ya know he was bein sarcastic, ya? ;) ALmost all of those games sold over a mil each

 



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theprof00 on 20 March 2009
NJ5 said:
Ail said:
shams said:
Another way to look at it:

For every 3 people that picked up RE5 on the PS3 this week, 1 person picked up MadWorld on the Wii. Both launch weeks.

 

And for every person that owns a PS3 there are 3 that owns a Wii in NA, so that's a week one attach rate 1/9th smaller.

Fortunately attach rates are pretty meaningless for publishers.

 

I don't know if I'm missing something here but weren't first week sales 60/800~ ?how is that 1/3?

 



BTFeather55 on 20 March 2009

Yeah, it means that developers might want to try to shovel more shovelware on the console instead of new ips in traditional genres. Wii owners are to blame. There are close to 50 million of you don't you want more good games on your system are are you really satisfied with bland products like Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Music, and Wii Fit?



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theprof00 on 20 March 2009

the core wii gamer isn't anyone on this site bt. So you're preaching to the choir



bardicverse on 20 March 2009

^^^ Prof, BTFeather is the new CrazzyMan. Blind fanboyism at its finest =)



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Khuutra on 20 March 2009
BTFeather55 said:
Yeah, it means that developers might want to try to shovel more shovelware on the console instead of new ips in traditional genres. Wii owners are to blame. There are close to 50 million of you don't you want more good games on your system are are you really satisfied with bland products like Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Music, and Wii Fit?

Wait, wait, wait.

How is anything you just named "bland"? Go ahead. Break it down for me.



TruckOSaurus on 20 March 2009
theprof00 said:
NJ5 said:
Ail said:
shams said:
Another way to look at it:

For every 3 people that picked up RE5 on the PS3 this week, 1 person picked up MadWorld on the Wii. Both launch weeks.

 

And for every person that owns a PS3 there are 3 that owns a Wii in NA, so that's a week one attach rate 1/9th smaller.

Fortunately attach rates are pretty meaningless for publishers.

 

I don't know if I'm missing something here but weren't first week sales 60/800~ ?how is that 1/3?

 

I think he was talking about NA PS3 sales which are at 276,436 not 800,000. But 57,553 / 276,436 = 0,21 so that's about 1/5 not 1/3.



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SuperDave on 20 March 2009

When I bought Madworld the EB employee hadn't even heard of it which sort of amused me.

Fantastic game, I hope it sells well, because it really deserves it.



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mike_intellivision on 20 March 2009
Lostplanet22 said:
mike_intellivision said:
For those who think that 57k is a failure, that is about 2k more than HAWX for Xbox 360 sold its first week.

While not quite as hyped, that game has received plenty of promotion.

Mike from Morgantown

Trying to offer some perspective.

 

 

But HAWX is a failure aswell review wise and sales wise.

 

I used it because it was semi-well-hyped with pre-sales at Gamestop and it was a realtively new IP.

It does have review scores that are 10-12 points below what Madworld has.

Another difference between the two games is that Madworld will continue to have solid sales while HAWX will probably continue to see declines.

 

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theprof00 on 20 March 2009

I've seen some of his points before, and I can partly agree with that assessment. Howverer, if he's anything like most gamers he has owned nintendo consoles since the beginning and he's disappointed. The lack of what us gamers would call core, but also just a general lack of interest by the owners to buy those core games, is upsetting. True there are really good titles, and wii games do tend to have great legs, but ahh, I dunno. I for one am kind of nostaglic for that old nintendo experience...
I think bt also forgets that a lot of the people on this site are interested in madworld, he shouldn't use such sweeping generalizations.

PS: I don't think anyone was as bad as crazzzyman lol