In this thread, Wii (and sometimes DS) owners will laugh in the faces of stupid companies who decided to make "core game tests" instead of just making great games. We are glad that "core game tests" fail, and hope the companies that make them go belly up, and especially the executives and game directors have a hard time finding work in the gaming industry ever again! (While hopefully the nice and good developers go straight to work for companies who make games, not tests.)

To participate in this thread, please post a link to a company calling a game a "core game test" in some way. Then explain why that game was actually a niche game, or a poor game, that no one has ever been interested in. Then post a link to that game's page on VGC, showing it's humorously small sales. Then we all say together "I HOPE YOUR STUDIO CLOSES."

For example, here's EA saying that Dead Space: Extraction is a core game test:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/dead-space-extraction-a-watershed-for-mature-wii-games

Of course, Dead Space failed on the HD systems. Then, EA decided to make it a rail shooter. But they tried to trick Wii owners, who they apparantly think are pretty stupid, by calling it a "guided first person experience." Finally, they made a short, glitchy game, which is up it's own ass in story that no one cares about.

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=31932

HAHAHAHA. The best part is, that's way overtracked in America according to NPD! It actually DIDN'T do "over 9000." Together now: I HOPE YOUR STUDIO CLOSES.

And remember everybody, nobody cares what you think various games "deserve" to sell! People buy games based on their tastes, not yours. So if you want to go "OH BOO HOO CARNIVAL GAMES OUTSOLD DEADLY CREATURES," you can find plenty of hardcore sob fest threads on other websites!

Please everyone, post your own! There's plenty of them!

You're so full of evil. I love you.

why dont developers make games that consumers want? i mean i'm sure the onrail appeal is quite low

I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic.

But honestly, I'm loving it either way.

I don't like that "test" stuff either, if developers didn't want to take a risk in making a Wii game then they should have made their game GOOD, not a mediocre "test", as if that was any indication of what people want. If a game was good and appealing it would get people interested.

for me personally, even if Dead Space Extraction got awsome reviews i still wouldn't want it, it's an unappealing game to (and many others by the looks of those sales). also, i tend to lose intrest in a game that's been marked as a test game.

I do agree that test games deserve bad sales, but i don't agree that developers deserve to shut down, many hardworking people would lose their jobs that way and they didn't have much of a say on what to create as their game.

but yeah, test games suck!

so, let me get this straight... the game isn't "good", not due to review, but due to the fact it was marked as an 'test" game?

What about those un-'test' games who also recieved good reviews? NHM, Zak and Wiki? Do they also deserve bad sales?

Deadly Creatures is one of the worst offenders here

"Cmon guys. Lets see if there´s some hardcore market for the wii, alright?

So, lets release a regular hardcore game to test it

I know: a spider and a scorpion. This is our game. These are the type of heroes games got today, right?

Lets call it "Call of the Spider and Scorpion: Unleashed""

Later, marketing dept settle down with another title, so they could set apart the game from other hardcore offerings on the Wii

The fact that this by the numbers but amazing game failed is undeniable proof that the wii has no market for mature games.

Uh, No More Heroes sold well?

Also Deadspace Extraction isn't good because it has a number of bugs that WILL kill you.  Like panning away from live monsters while you just stand their and get mauled to death.

Anyone who gave it good reviews must of had their head stuck up their ass.

casual gamers buy games based on the franchise name, because they don't read reviews. Quality does not transfer into sales.

@kingofwale: test games are usually sub-par in some way, in this case it's the gameplay, a rail shooter isn't the same as a full third/first person shooter and isn't very interesting... sometimes it's graphics or polish or the whole game that's sub-par.

in this case they could have spent the extra effort and made into a good shooter (third person or otherwise) but an on-rails shooter seems kinda strange when the genre isn't very popular, they're setting themselves up for failure.

why would you want to be blackmailed/threatened by developers to buy their game anyway? i personally don't like being threatened to do anything and it shows how much respect/consideration they show to us consumers.