So MadWorld fails in sales, and Wii owners fail alltogether :(

-Despacio- · 2009-03-27 11:19:05

So despite a stong push in marketing (many tv commercials) and courage from Sega to really explore the 'hardcore' desires of Wii owners, they're met with dismal sales (if you believe in VG Chartz). MadWorld had 40,000 units sold Week 1, and a huge drop to 17,000 the second week? That's worse than No More Heroes combined its first two weeks, and No More Heroes had crap marketing, if any. On top of that House of the Dead: Overkill numbers are even worse. Will The Conduit follow the same trend? Most likely. Well, unless the legs of these games are amazingly strong (House of the Dead has already dropped to 6,000 in it's seventh week), it looks like the push to discover the 'hardcore' gaming crowd in the sea of Wii owners will be less likely pursued by other publishers.Let's add salt to the wound, Tenchu's numbers in japan are dismal and Deadly Creatures in the states has barely hit 23,000 copies sold after nearly two months.I give up hoping, the Wii is a casual gamers machine through and through with the occasional Nintendo classic now and then (Punch-Out looks like a blast). It seems to me The Conduit really is the last hope in convincing third party makers to create Wii games that cater to the more hardcore/traditional gamer crowd. And maybe, just maybe MadWorld shows legs, no more 50%+ drops hopefully.So although my thread title may be overly dramatic, it's just the way I feel about this situation right now.

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SSBFan12

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#101 SSBFan12

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Madworld didn't fail in sales just because it didn't beat No More Heroes sells deosn't mean it fails in sales.

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intro94

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#102 intro94

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Madworld didn't fail in sales just because it didn't beat No More Heroes sells deosn't mean it fails in sales.
SSBFan12

i think madworld already sold over 100 k in the first month. No more heroes took 2 years to get to 400k?...i can bet Madworld beats NMH in a year tops.

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#103 chief_chris

Member since 2004 • 66 Posts

[QUOTE="SSBFan12"]
Madworld didn't fail in sales just because it didn't beat No More Heroes sells deosn't mean it fails in sales.
intro94

i think madworld already sold over 100 k in the first month. No more heroes took 2 years to get to 400k?...i can bet Madworld beats NMH in a year tops.

NMH has only been out 1 year.

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#105 Brawl578

Member since 2008 • 895 Posts

Trolls fail altogether.