To save everyone time, I’ll recap the thread before it starts:
Dave Long: The Wii is still the biggest seller ever by far, and Nintendo is the only one who needs to make any money.
Everyone else: The Wii is a d0m3d fad!!!
There. That was less painful than what’s actually about to happen.
Edit: Sigh. I had second thoughts and actually decided to delete this whole post, because we’ve been down this road before. Unfortunately the “delete” button had timed out, or maybe you can’t delete OPs. In any case, please feel free to not reply.
Pretty sure Capcom bitched about Okami’s sales on the PS2 too, whining about how the PS2 had too many games. And they’re bitching about Western devs too, saying how no one bought Bionic Commando.
However, I know the real reason behind Capcom’s woes and I would like to share it with them. Capcom, you haven’t make a good game since Dead Rising. STOP. MAKING. SHIT. GAMES.
But Chris Kramer, Capcom senior director of communications and community, said even though “it was one of the highest-rated Wii games and was beloved by the media, it sold abysmally – about 120,000 units in 26 months – for no apparent reason.”
The reason was pretty apparent to me: reviewers are overly enamored of Japanese-ness.
Zak and Wiki was never, ever going to sell gangbusters and Capcom was kidding itself if it thought it was a potential million-seller. The game was obscure, child-unfriendly despite its anime-styled graphics, prone to extreme difficulty spikes, and had a bad name.
Really, Capcom? What other puzzle games have sold great? You know, those games that you were benchmarking the sales predictions against? Yeah, I thought so.
And yet it still didn’t come close to the success the same franchise had on the PSP, which is actually the point of the comments made on it. I believe Konami currently expects to sell more copies of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on the PSP, as well, which is insane.
You with your facts and reading comprehension! Fie on thee!
Dave Long’s stances on Nintendo related things are beginning to reach “cliffski on piracy” levels of ridiculousness. Did you really just miss the point completely, accuse someone of lying, and then prove them right in the same post?
Yep. I loved Zak and Wiki, but my efforts to pimp it to my friends pretty much completely failed. Nobody was interested in it at all, and all of the conversations had basically the same “Isn’t that a kids’ game?” / “Oh, it’s just a puzzle game? No thanks.” pattern.
He edited his post to include the information on 2nd G. And 2nd G was the second game on PSP, released two years before Tri IIRC. The franchise hit its stride on portable systems and was the only thing people bought for PSP in Japan for a time. The PSP was the “Monster Hunter System” there.
Capcom has never intimated that they were at all unsatisfied with the 8th best selling game of 2009 in Japan, otherwise known as Monster Hunter Tri. He’s twisting the truth, otherwise known as lying.
This is the only board where people are interpreting Capcom’s success with Monster Hunter Tri on Wii as some kind of problem. But that’s completely expected with this place anymore.
