wheelman demo was PURE CRAP

so i was expecting that

and for riddick i mean, who cares it's riddick

Anyone know where else BESIDES the ONE location mentioned where Riddick is down to $40? Best Buy has it at $60. Gamestop has it at $60. Toys R Us has it at $60. Same with Walmart.

I am noticing a trend. This trend is someone sees something ONE place and assumes that it is a trend. Now Riddick is made out to be an epic failure, due to a price cut at ONE place.

Well at least Riddick and Wheelman had tough competition.  MadWorld had the field pretty much completely to itself and still flopped.  As for cost, I've seen a lot more advertising for MadWorld than I ever did for Wheelman or Riddick, and how much would Riddick really cost considering it's basically an upgrade of an already great looking Xbox game with a few additional levels.

*Tries to remember if VG Chartz' logo changed for Riddick or other gaming websites having significant amounts of advertising for it.  Also tries to remember if local videogame stores had advertising for Riddick like they did for MadWorld.  Hmm...*

I was just being sarcastic. There were at least 243 threads about Madworld being a failure on its first week of sales. People also seem to have unrealistic expectations for artsy, low budget or new IPs on the Wii. The (semi) HD consoles have a respectable collection of flops and no one make a big deal of it.

1) Old IPs - Silent Hill, Golden Axe, Star Ocean, Tales (of Vesperia), Alone in the Dark, Shadowrun

2) New IPs - Conan, Lair, Haze, Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Valkyria Chronicles, Stranglehold, Fracture, Jericho, Folklore

3) Low Budget games - Bullet Witch, X-Blades, Ninja Blade, Operation Darkness, Onechanbara

There are more, these are the one I remember. Everyone is losing money on HD development (save for 4 or 5 companies with diversified investments) and all we can talk is about Z&W disappointing sales or how NMH and Madworld would do 1M + on the Xbox360 alone.

I think the real issue was Madworld being madly hyped by not just a few, but every wii fan, and that was what made it really bad. While the HD consoles had had a really stuffed past couple of years, so nobody notices the # of flops. The wii has nintendo games that sell well, and the occasinal party game (carnival games, games party, games party 2, deca sports, mario party, sports party, raving rabbids tv party.. and the list goes on.) So to see a game that differs from that formula, and being very hyped, it was naturally disapointing seeing the sales. Although if the legs of these games are anything to go by, madworld will break 1 mill.

Especially the games I have bolded, really bad examples. In fact, I would say over half of them had anti-hype, were just too niche or bad. Fracture was like all 3 of those :P And TLR sold decently, I think. Considering it's a timed xbox 360 exclusive, and shall at least make another 300k on the ps3 making it a success.

riddick i might get it i hear its 2 games on the disk.

This post is almost as cool as Guile's hair!

I kid. Yeah It's two games on one disc, a remake of the original and a new game following what happended after the first game. It also has multiplayer though I don't know how good the MP is.

I expected poor sales... No one talked about them at all...

Weelman & Riddick are really bad games..

Seeing more advertizements doesn't (necessarily) mean that more money was spent on marketing, just that you may watch more of the television that defines a particular demographic that is being targeted by the company. Personally, I saw a few advertizements for MadWorld on a small national network in off-peak hours in a Startrek rerun while I am constantly bombarded with wheelman and Riddick commercials if I watch Spike at primetime ... While Spike may not be a very big network, it is much larger than the network I saw the MadWorld commercials on (Space), its primetime slot would certainly be more expensive than the off-peak timeslot I saw MadWorld on, and the quantity of advertizements is far greater for Wheelman and Riddick.