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coolestguyever on 22 March 2009

how about any non-nintendo game?

No more heroes didn't sell
MadWorld I don't expect to sell
I don't expect Conduit to sell either

Call of duty world at war didn't sell well either compared to HD console versions



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Arius Dion on 22 March 2009

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The Ghost of RubangB on 22 March 2009
shinyuhadouken said:
The Wii has less than 15 quality games.

That is truly pathetic, although Mario Galaxy is definitely one of my favorite games this gen.

Are you serious?



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Demotruk on 22 March 2009
NiKKoM said:
psrock said:
yes Deadly creatures will go 500k, the problem is , it usually take over a year to get there. That usually cuts huge portion of the profits you guys think these games make.

I'll bet they are back at making mini games...:

http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/01/07/deadly-creatures-developer-back-to-minigames-if-game-doesnt-s/

Deadly Creatures developer 'back to minigames' if game doesn't sell

by Chris Greenhough { Jan 7th 2009 at 8:05PM }

It's tough being a developer at Rainbows Studio right now, and not just because your rivals are insinuating things about your game. Jordan Itkowitz, lead designer on the allegedly not-that-original Deadly Creatures, is desperate for his game to sell well. If it flops, as many third-party "core" games have to date, it could mean he goes "back to minigames." Says Itkowitz to MTV's Multiplayer blog: "I hope people vote with their dollars in February so we can make some more."

Well, us too, Jordan. Now, let's all take a moment to dwell on what a bleak, bleak statement this makes about the current state of the Wii software market.

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Ouch, that's harsh. I read that before but I had forgotten it.



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yanamaster on 22 March 2009

I don't think that the developer has the luxury of time when it comes to their game selling. remember that over the course of that year they have to run the company ie pay the developers start new projects etc.

I don't know if the game will reach 500k. But i know for sure that developer will think twice before making another wii game because of this.



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psrock on 22 March 2009
Soriku said:
Maybe, maybe not. Wii games don't need 500k to make profit.

 

Because you know or because you assume. 



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WereKitten on 22 March 2009
Demotruk said:
WereKitten said:
@Demotruk
Okami did not sell for the Wii like it didn't sell on the PS2. The fact that it made a handful of dollars because it was a pretty direct port so it had low development costs does not change the fact that it did not sell.
What about Tenchu or the two Tomb Raider games? Those were pretty decent I seem to remember, and known franchises. And hardly niche games.

You ignored the question I asked about Zelda. But ok, Tenchu, I don't know how well it will sell. It's a recent release with 70,000 units so far, and the best selling Tenchu game of all according to vgchartz only sold 320,000 copies. Maybe it will have legs, maybe it won't.

And which Tomb Raider are you talking about, this? http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/laracrofttombraideranniversary

Interesting benchmarks you use for expecting high sales, really.

 

Tomb Raider is a big name, washed out as it might have gotten, that was the point. And metacritic=73 is now a game that does not deserve sales? I think it means a decent to good game, if not for everybody.

It's more than Deadly Creatures and Endless Ocean that most people on this forum found good games, only two less than Umbrella Chronicles.

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Yes, misread it sorry. The PS2 version might have killed it indeed, as the target for TR:Anniversary on the Wii is probably mostly made of (ex) PS2 owners.



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yanamaster on 22 March 2009

Because he read sometime ago that one developer said so and takes it for granted. Even if it does not need 500k to make profit on a game, i have this wierd hunch that they put a bit of money into deadly creatures (say around 5-6 million$) and if they get those 20$ off each sold copy they need to sell overall 250-300k to get that money back.

And after a month the game sold 40 thousand units where the game is basically off the charts radar already.



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misterd on 22 March 2009
WereKitten said:
How is Okami more niche than Zelda? And as for advertising, how much advertising did Uncharted get when compared to, say, Metroid Prime 3?
If you make enough rules as you go along to cut out counterexamples, you can prove basically any thesis. It all depends on what you mean with big game, with enough sales etc.
How many games of great quality, strongly advertised, not of a niche genre did ever not sell on any console?

Since Okami did not sell well on the PS2 either, and that console had a much larger base and certainly did have the ability to sell quality titles, you can't blame the console - PS2 or Wii - for its poor sales.

 



Domo-Kun on 22 March 2009

I don't think it will.

I have seen the game in stores, but I had no idea that it was an actual quality title. The clunky box art just made me think that it was another "Cabella's" hunting game or cash-in mini game.

If it is a good game, more advertising to raise awareness would surely increase it's sales.



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