Okami won awards too and got the same treatment from gaming websites as Madworld when it came out and you see how it faired. It is a niche game period .And one thing you definitely to realize only HARDCORE gamers go to video games websites and were are the minority and always been like that.It is the mainstream that makes a game a multimillion seller not hardcore gamers.

I say if it was PS3 exclusive it would be at 500k and hailed as one of the most original, fun, endless replayable games on the planet.

Ok, I went back and watched the video.  Let me give you my reaction to the game after seeing the video, and maybe it will show you will the game hasn't done gangbusters.

I remember walking out of the theater of Robocop 2 when the villian was ripping the chest open of a guy and joking, "See, he isn't screaming now" or something.  That was so appaulingly offensive to me, in the excess amount of gore (watching a guy scream as they rip his chest open), that I found it way too disturbing.

What I see in MadWorld approximates this with me.  You may think it is brilliant game making.  I find it disgusting and totally offensive, and something I just can't get into.  Now multiply that by the people who bought videogame systems, particularly the Wii, and you see what is gone for here.

In regards to next gen consoles, the graphic style would likely turn off a LOT of other hardcore or teen players for whom the over the top gore is a selling point.  They don't take it as "art" they take it as "Sucky graphics". 

An individual who would find MadWorld appealing has to have an arteest mentality in art style, while having the tastes of a testosterone driven male teenage boy.  Such a game is relegated to niche. 

HD gamers don't want a game that is black and white and no replay value. It's a waste of the consoles' raw power and online capability.

That is another question worth asking.  Beat 'EM Ups are arcade/1990 genre that was popular then.  As of now, not too many have come out.

A beatem up done with black and white graphics, is part of a particular niche.  Games fit into different niches.  Now, you may lament that the niche that MadWorld in, isn't particularly popular, but that is life.  Why do you think a game with over the top gore, and a black and white (and red all over) color style would appeal to a lot of people, no matter how brilliantly executed it is?

I think Raider Fighters is brilliantly executed.  Do you want to lay down $20 for a 2D SHUMP?  Do you want MILLIONS of people to do so?  Why would you expect people to do this?

People saying this game isnt niche, just look at it.

Its a new beat em up when the industry is dominated by Shooters and fitness games. You aint games like that, its niche.

Lets not forget its R rated too

On PS3 and 360 Madworld would have had a better opening week, but the legs wouldn't last as long as the Wii's will.

I think it would have sold better on the other consoles.

HD gamers have been starved for a good hack and slash action game for a while. DMC4 was a while ago, Ninja Gaiden II came and went, we're still waitiing for GoWIII, so there was definitely a market for it.

Whether it would have sold enough to make up the costs of making a HD game, however, is another story.