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RolStoppable said:
nordlead said:
Soap_McTavish said:
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
Soap_McTavish said:
I think the correct move is for marvelous to team up with atlus and release PS3 games. it seems like the only hope for japanese developers.

The only hope for Japanese developers is simply to make better selling games. Moving to a smaller platform (and more expensive) is not going to help. 

smaller install base, but a much larger game purchasing base.

really? go scroll down to the software totals in japan and tell me if you still believe that.

http://www.vgchartz.com/jyearly.php

This year alone they have bought ~3m more units on Wii. While software sales are slow this year on Wii, they have managed 20m more in total sales. So the proof is there that the Wii can move software, but they need to put out something good.

He obviously meant to say "going by the attach ratio". The average PS3 owner buys more games than the average Wii owner.

You mean the average PS3 owner buys more games for Wii than the average Wii owner?




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RolStoppable said:
nordlead said:
Soap_McTavish said:
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
Soap_McTavish said:
I think the correct move is for marvelous to team up with atlus and release PS3 games. it seems like the only hope for japanese developers.

The only hope for Japanese developers is simply to make better selling games. Moving to a smaller platform (and more expensive) is not going to help. 

smaller install base, but a much larger game purchasing base.

really? go scroll down to the software totals in japan and tell me if you still believe that.

http://www.vgchartz.com/jyearly.php

This year alone they have bought ~3m more units on Wii. While software sales are slow this year on Wii, they have managed 20m more in total sales. So the proof is there that the Wii can move software, but they need to put out something good.

He obviously meant to say "going by the attach ratio". The average PS3 owner buys more games than the average Wii owner.

Overall attach ratios are about the same actually.  360 leads both a by a bit.



Soap_McTavish said:
THats not true at all. There has been little to no success for any developers outside of nintendo on the wii.

Valkyria Chronicles is about to break 600k while demon's souls is sure to top 500k.

Demons Souls is a Sony game.  There are more 3rd party million sellers on Wii than PS3 btw (41 to 32).



RolStoppable said:
nordlead said:
RolStoppable said:
nordlead said:

really? go scroll down to the software totals in japan and tell me if you still believe that.

http://www.vgchartz.com/jyearly.php

This year alone they have bought ~3m more units on Wii. While software sales are slow this year on Wii, they have managed 20m more in total sales. So the proof is there that the Wii can move software, but they need to put out something good.

He obviously meant to say "going by the attach ratio". The average PS3 owner buys more games than the average Wii owner.

You mean the average PS3 owner buys more games for Wii than the average Wii owner?

Of course, after all the Wii has all the games that really matter while the PS3 is used to watch Blu-Ray movies. You should know from personal experience.

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lack of advertising hurt the sales for some of the games listed. i don't understand how developers expect gamers to buy their games if no one knows about them.



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Sherlock99 said:
lack of advertising hurt the sales for some of the games listed. i don't understand how developers expect gamers to buy their games if no one knows about them.

Marvelous is AWFUL at promoting their games, but that's something Wada's taken responsibility for before at least.  Hopefully that changes.

Honestly though, if ARF had been published and promoted by someone like Namco, Sega or Square Enix, I think it'd have easily sold 3 times as much in Japan.



Or if a game isn't available anywhere (Muramasa in Europe for example).



It's really hard to believe those PSP games made money. How little effort did they put into it haha. Oh well I suppose. Guess development costs must have been minuscule. But I assume developing on the handhelds has to be a lot cheaper.

Saddened for a few of those Wii titles, but they've only developed some in a few regions so really hard to gear because of that. Not to mention selling licenses has got to help.

But as I said earlier, outlaw, Marvelous needs to work on that marketing haha. You can't expect anything to sell well if no one knows about it.



jarrod said:
Soap_McTavish said:
THats not true at all. There has been little to no success for any developers outside of nintendo on the wii.

Valkyria Chronicles is about to break 600k while demon's souls is sure to top 500k.

Demons Souls is a Sony game.  There are more 3rd party million sellers on Wii than PS3 btw (41 to 32).

The situation is the same with Mario and Sonic. Nintendo published the title in Japan, but did not directly develop the title.



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Yeah, their Wii titles were generally higher budget and their PSP were all super cheap.