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Alby_da_Wolf on 27 March 2009
Garnett said:
Madworld looks like a cool game,i dont see why they are hating on it :(

Real haters are a minority, most couldn't care less, but found it such an easy prey to troll about...  

 



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Khuutra on 27 March 2009
ithis said:
Khuutra said:
ithis said:

So yes, MadWorld would have sold better on the other consoles.

There is no equivalent to Madworld on the other consoles. There was on the PS2, though.

It was called God Hand.

Well, base off of the VGCharts sales, which are for Japan only, we can't say much since Madworld is has no japan numbers yet. But I doubt the newfound female gamerbase will help it sell installbase adjusted equivalent numbers.

God Hand was Clover Studios' last great game. It did not sell well.



NJ5 on 27 March 2009
Khuutra said:
ithis said:
Khuutra said:
ithis said:

So yes, MadWorld would have sold better on the other consoles.

There is no equivalent to Madworld on the other consoles. There was on the PS2, though.

It was called God Hand.

Well, base off of the VGCharts sales, which are for Japan only, we can't say much since Madworld is has no japan numbers yet. But I doubt the newfound female gamerbase will help it sell installbase adjusted equivalent numbers.

God Hand was Clover Studios' last great game. It did not sell well.

According to wiki it was their last game.

 



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NinjaBlade360 on 27 March 2009

first off ithis most of the time with games shared between wii and the HD twins the wii gets gimped version of it

madworld is a game that only appeals to certain people i think that even if it was on the ps3 or xbox360 maybe a little bit more

the only reason i didn't get it was because of resident evil 5



ithis on 27 March 2009
Nick said:
ithis said:

Wii violent game sales in order of Metacritic score (cause it is presented in a nice list):

Call of Duty - 1.02m
Smackdown vs Raw - 0.89m
The Godfather - 0.13m

PS3 violent games list blablabla:

COD - 4.1m
Smackdown vs raw - 0.63m
The godfather - 0.2m



We can see that even the equivalent games sell better on PS3 (ranging from slightly to strongly), even though the install base is 44% of that of the Wii, and even though there are many violent games on the PS3 to satisfy.

So yes, MadWorld would have sold better on the other consoles.

 

So the main version of COD sold better than a spinoff?  And after that what?  Smackdown sold better on Wii and the Godfather sold better on PS3, but neither one by much. 

The rest of your lists (which I deleted) were small niche games (wii) vs. huge budget large franchise sequals (ps3). No good comparison can be made between those.

Then what, compare Star Wars TFU? Wii has a 0.1m advantage. Adjut it for install base and it's not better. But hey, kids love starwars, and so do moms. (and so do I)

The maybe we should take major franchises on both?

Metroid Prime maybe vs...erm...(well, not COD, erm...) Devil May Cry?...no? A shooter then? ...what?

 



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NJ5 on 27 March 2009
ithis said:

Then what, compare Star Wars TFU? Wii has a 0.1m advantage. Adjut it for install base and it's not better. But hey, kids love starwars, and so do moms. (and so do I)

The maybe we should take majos franchises on both?

Metroid Prime maybe vs...erm...(well, not COD, erm...) Devil May Cry?...no? A shooter then? ...what?

 

If we're going to adjust for install bases, did the Metal Gear Solid games on the PS2 also sell bad? After all they didn't sell that much better than MGS4.

Install bases don't tell the whole story.

 



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Khuutra on 27 March 2009
ithis said:

Then what, compare Star Wars TFU? Wii has a 0.1m advantage. Adjut it for install base and it's not better. But hey, kids love starwars, and so do moms. (and so do I)

The maybe we should take majos franchises on both?

Metroid Prime maybe vs...erm...(well, not COD, erm...) Devil May Cry?...no? A shooter then? ...what?

Installbase doesn't matter to corporations: raw numbers do. You can drop that particular line of reasoning anytime.



Nick on 27 March 2009

^ that's sort of my point. You're comparing things that can't really be compared.



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WereKitten on 27 March 2009

@NJ5
"Correlation is not causation"

Games that appeal to the "casual" crowd have legs because of the buying pattern of the "casual" audience, not because of the Wii magic legs. These buyers don't know when a game came out, they buy according to name and genre. Same happens for casual games on other consoles, proportionally to the "casual" audience share.

Shooters have their own audience, and there are not many for the Wii. New Wii users (say the 16 yo boy of a family that bought the console for Wii Fit) may want a FPS. They obviously orbitate towards CoD:WaW. Resistence:FoM had legs for the same reason, when the PS3 library was thinner. Again, not Wii specific.

Da Blob was a quirky, family safe game, that sold based on word of mouth. I expect it to have legs... I can't compare with equivalent games on 360 and PS3 because they are downloadable.

I'm sorry but I don't see a "Wii" factor in those legs... I see a console that has many games appealing to the "widened" audience, that has its FPS loving users constantly starved, and with a few independent quirky family-friendly games.

Madworld is not covered by any of these.




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Rei on 27 March 2009

There are two things a lot of vgchartz users claim without anything to back them up:

- PS3 is a console for jRPGs.
- Wii can sell 3rd party core games.

Now, I dont have anything against Madworld (this is my 1st comment about it), nor do I have anything against PS3. I just want people to either stop claiming that or to show me a solid proof already. Madworld was probably seen by many as a possible proof, thats why you get this "trolling" now.