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amp316 on 03 July 2009

They do sell extremely well.

You just are confusing what the word hardcore means.

Mario Kart Wii is the best selling hardcore game of this generation.



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Millennium on 03 July 2009

They don't sell partly because nobody bothers to market them and partly because the reviewers smear them every chance they get for being on the Wii.



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amp316 on 03 July 2009
RolStoppable said:
amp316 said:

They do sell extremely well.

You just are confusing what the word hardcore means.

Mario Kart Wii is the best selling hardcore game of this generation.

I concur.

There are quite a few VGC users who have turned into rabid Wii haters after they have played against us in Mario Kart Wii.

This is why megaman 2 doesn't acknowledge the Wii in his most recent posts. 



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amp316 on 03 July 2009
RolStoppable said:
amp316 said:
RolStoppable said:
amp316 said:

They do sell extremely well.

You just are confusing what the word hardcore means.

Mario Kart Wii is the best selling hardcore game of this generation.

I concur.

There are quite a few VGC users who have turned into rabid Wii haters after they have played against us in Mario Kart Wii.

This is why megaman 2 doesn't acknowledge the Wii in his most recent posts. 

We are too hardcore for our own good.


You're even more hardcore than me. 



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Kenology on 03 July 2009

You two are my heroes.



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9Chiba on 03 July 2009

you two are nuts



GLoRySoGLoRy on 03 July 2009
skiptomylou41k said:

I think that perhaps these games don't sell as well because people who play them are mostly core gamers and likely have modded systems? You guys think so?


yea i think so too...

 

 

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chapset on 03 July 2009

wii owners don't like to play games, they want to do exercise
third parties just have to realese games like madworld fit or slim fast over kill and they'll get 20mil no problem



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skiptomylou41k on 03 July 2009

yea i kinda agree with a lot of you guys, i just posted this because i only know 2 others guys that play their wii on a regular basis who i consider very much hardcore gamers and both have modded systems.

I know plenty of others with wii's...but it just gathers dust because they're mostly playing on our ps3 or 360s with us

The wii is attractive for niche games, but i bought it mainly for the nintendo brand games



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Cypher1980 said:
Soon the Darkside will be irresistable and will crush the MS rebel scum underfoot.

The Wii owners are like Ewoks. The Evil empire will tolerate them but turn their forest moon into a secret base.

LordTheNightKnight on 03 July 2009
Bobbuffalo said:
because so far the "hardcore" whatever games on wii are just too weird and dumb to be taken seriously. I don't think that Madworld or Deadly creatures or HOTD Overkill would have sold millions on the HD consoles..heck I doubt that they wouldn't even sold on the PS2. Others like Dead rising are watered ports that wii owners won't just accept that easy.

Weird games don't sell. Period. No matter the console.

Actually it was more like a steel frame building remade with a wooden frame (wood is strong, just not that strong), and they had no previous experience making such buildings (no game of that scale remade from the HD systems to the Wii before, none). It only looks watered down because of this notion porting is done from the top down, not rebuilt from the ground up (and engines only give the foundation, they don't build the house for you).

I say it was more that Capcom didn't feel like hyping a two year old game and just wanted their foot in the door on HD to Wii remaking.

As for the others, they were too niche. Madworld didn't cost a lot so it sold fince, but Deadly Creatures seemed to be too ambitious for its niche.



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