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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Just Dance: Decent Advertising, Strange sales and fun. A Sleepter hit?

BrandonM on 29 December 2009

They advertise crappy games and get great sales, but sent good games to die with zero support........:(



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iLLmaticV3 on 29 December 2009

OMG THIS GAME! My cousin got it for Christmas and she brought it over for me to play...I nearly killed myself, no joke. One of the cheapest games ever made.

It was an absolutely dreadful experience.



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TomaTito on 29 December 2009

This one will be tested out at the Epiphany, when the Three Wise Men bring it over. Then the real critic (demanding sister) will determine if it's better than her ultimate Music/Dancing game We Cheer... don't think it will, but who knows.



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Ghutto on 29 December 2009

This game is FUN! I love to see the people playing this game. It's hilarious! XD

I wish a Just Dance 2 compatible with "Your Shape Camera".



Kenology on 29 December 2009
richardhutnik said:
How about we live and let live, and if people actually enjoy the game, does it matter what the core reviewers thing? I remember seeing how Deer Hunter was ruthlessly mauled by reviewers. However, I know my father ended up playing on the PC for hours at that game, and he never played anything else. He is into hunting.

This.

The general enthusiast press hate most games not tailored to them.  But for other people, those games can be great fun.  This is why the snobcore hate the Wii and the PEOPLE love it.



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hsrob on 29 December 2009
LordTheNightKnight said:
"The latter should be a lesson to many game developers whose offerings have not done well on the Wii. People need to know to buy the games."

Imagine commercials of people swinging the Wiimote like a baseball bat or a katana while playing Chop Till You Drop, or people doing the moves in Madworld.

They would have sold better.

You beat me to it.  People complain about games like this selling well on the Wii but if "good games" got anywhere near as much advertising as this I'm pretty sure they'd sell well too.



richardhutnik on 29 December 2009
hsrob said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
"The latter should be a lesson to many game developers whose offerings have not done well on the Wii. People need to know to buy the games."

Imagine commercials of people swinging the Wiimote like a baseball bat or a katana while playing Chop Till You Drop, or people doing the moves in Madworld.

They would have sold better.

You beat me to it.  People complain about games like this selling well on the Wii but if "good games" got anywhere near as much advertising as this I'm pretty sure they'd sell well too.

No amount of advertising is going to generate interest in a game that doesn't intrinsically appeal to large numbers of people.  "Just Dance" does appeal to people.  Why would people suddenly get interested in Chop Til You Drop, or MadWorld, if they were advertised.  I have next to NO interest in MadWorld, due to its excessive gore (I learned my lesson when I bought No More Heroes on they hype).  Also Chop Til You Drop is the worst version of Dead Rising, despite the controls being different.



SaviorX on 29 December 2009

The game actually looked kinda fun. You dance to a choreographed set of moves. Fun with the family....if the controls work.



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LordTheNightKnight on 29 December 2009
richardhutnik said:
hsrob said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
"The latter should be a lesson to many game developers whose offerings have not done well on the Wii. People need to know to buy the games."

Imagine commercials of people swinging the Wiimote like a baseball bat or a katana while playing Chop Till You Drop, or people doing the moves in Madworld.

They would have sold better.

You beat me to it.  People complain about games like this selling well on the Wii but if "good games" got anywhere near as much advertising as this I'm pretty sure they'd sell well too.

No amount of advertising is going to generate interest in a game that doesn't intrinsically appeal to large numbers of people.  "Just Dance" does appeal to people.  Why would people suddenly get interested in Chop Til You Drop, or MadWorld, if they were advertised.  I have next to NO interest in MadWorld, due to its excessive gore (I learned my lesson when I bought No More Heroes on they hype).  Also Chop Til You Drop is the worst version of Dead Rising, despite the controls being different.

You're using your own preference as an audience gauge. Doesn't work that way.

I'm not claiming the sales would be huge, just greater than they are.



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couchmonkey on 29 December 2009
DnE said:

I wanted to see peoples thoughts on the sales of this could be sleeper hit.

Just Dance 

...

Do you think sales will continuously grow becoming an evergreen sort of title?
Could this be the wii game which adds fuel to the fire of what wii development strategies should be? (Maybe jsut a few years late)

A penny for your thoughts ;)
 

It may or may not be evergreen.  Increasing sales indicate that it will, but it's Christmas time which makes it hard to guage sales.

Could this be the game that adds fuel to the fire of Wii development strategies?  No.  More likely it will be the game that adds fuel to the fire of "OMG new casual fad! Everybody make a dancing game!"

Some other interesting comments here.  I read the IGN review when it was new and I became very suspicious the moment the guy claimed the review wasn't just a case of him not understanding the audience.  That sends a warning alarm: this reviewer and/or IGN is getting flack for not understanding the expanded audience...and probably should be ignored if you're part of that audience.