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Wii Games Not Selling says Killer-7 Creator
Thu, Jan 17, 08 @ 12:52
Posted by haritori
Registered: 4 Jul 2007
Posts: 1659
I Disagree.
Nintendo games sell well because they make full use of the controller in the correct way, but, I believe any company that also does this will sell games well, (now I have no figures to go off BUT) Didn’t Resident evil 4 sell very well?, also I believe these are some best selling Wii games in the US at Christmas
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
- Super Mario Galaxy
- High School Musical Sing It! with Microphone
- Lego Star Wars
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
How many are Nintendo games? And with the exception of High School Musical they are all good games that are rated highly
Also I would like to see the figures for Zak & Wiki and Resident Evil 4 Again highly rated a I suspect will both become/are good sellers
Pround Owner of a 128k Spectrum


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Wii Games Not Selling says Killer-7 Creator
Thu, Jan 17, 08 @ 13:15
Posted by king skins
Registered: 10 Mar 2005
Posts: 543
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Hasn't this always been the case with games on Nintendo hardware? Where 3rd party software never sells very well and its the very rare exception for a 3rd party game to sell well.

The DS is exactly the same, so was the GameCube and N64.
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Re: Wii Games Not Selling says Killer-7 Creator
Thu, Jan 17, 08 @ 13:40
Posted by OptimusP
Registered: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 1160
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king skins wrote:
Hasn't this always been the case with games on Nintendo hardware? Where 3rd party software never sells very well and its the very rare exception for a 3rd party game to sell well.

The DS is exactly the same, so was the GameCube and N64.

Except for the NES and SNES, but for the reason that third-parties then actually made good games for the those systems in comparison on the other combined with Nintendophiles being spoiled by Nintendo, they sniff out crap a mile away.

Which makes the Wii even more non-understandable because crap also sells on the Wii. The thing is, a violent game like No More Heroes doesn't sell at all in the Japan, they never did (except Metal gear). besides, Suda is clearly whining, NMH sold a bit more then Killer 7 did in Japan and that game was released on the GC and PS2 at the same time. Killer 7 was just so niche in the first place (like Viewtifull Joe which bombed on the PS2 even more then on the GC).

No More Heroes is actually perfect for the Wii since its full of former GC-owners, they're the only ones that would buy something like NMH in the first place. On the Xbox360 and PS3 it would just bomb because of the demographics on those consoles. A Niche-game like NMH never sold good on the PS2 and Xbox (see Viewtifull Joe, Killer 7 and all those quirky SEGA-games that all bombed on the Xbox)


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Wii Games Not Selling says Killer-7 Creator
Thu, Jan 17, 08 @ 15:40
Posted by ThorsSti
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No More Heroes is just a s**t game! I played it for 5 hours now and already feed up with it. The guy should look at his own game and ask himself why the game didn't sold like he expected.


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Wii Games Not Selling says Killer-7 Creator
Thu, Jan 17, 08 @ 18:49
Posted by James
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Nintendo's plan could back-fire on them, the problem is their target audience of 'non-gamers' well non gamers aren't going to buy that many games are they?? put yourself in a non-gamers shoes, you buy a wii, play wii sports and think wow thats not bad, you don't know much about games or what's good, you don't buy magazines, you probably saw the advert for mario galaxy and bought that, but mostly your wii sits gathering dust as you don't have time to play it.

perhaps Nintendo should start shifting towards the hardcore gamers that have been feeding it all these decades....and refuse to authroise any more ports an minigames (seriously who the hell is going to buy a 360 game like cod3 etc ported to the wii with tacked on control? it's pointless) I'm not even going to speak about the EA trash on there.

Nintendo need to start spending, buy some good devs and set them to work on some real innovative exclusive wii games.


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