NPD: Starwars TFU Wii version outsells the PS3 version!?

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#1 TheNextOrder
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The month Starwars TFU was launched the Wii version of the game was in last place by quite a wide margin, but now?

Star Wars Force Unleashed - 823k (360) 464k (PS3) 626k (Wii) ..Wii games have legs!!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=355837&page=38

So it appears big name 3rd party games on the Wii like Starwars, Resident Evil franchise (RE4 and REUC both did over a million), Guitar Hero,Rockband, Call of Duty (World at War close to a million), Lego (Indiana Jones, Starwars did over a million) franchise sell pretty damn well over time.

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#2 torontomapleafs
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Not surprising that it would because most people that own a Wii are casual gamers and look for deals on old games probably instead of buying a game at launch.

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#3 angelkimne
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I guess people wanted to use the Wiimote as a Lightsaber.
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#4 locopatho
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Big name games sell well on the console with the biggest install base...? How is this news?
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#5 moose_knuckler
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Big name games sell well on the console with the biggest install base...? How is this news?locopatho
I'm wondering the same thing.
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On ps3 .... it sits there as a mediocre licensed game at best in a sea of great 3rd party/1st partyaction games.

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#7 finalfantasy94
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I guess alot of people thought Wiimote in jedi game would equal awesome. TO bad they were wrong. I hope wii motion plus will give us our jedi game.

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#8 stvee101
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On ps3 .... it sits there as a mediocre licensed game at best in a sea of great 3rd party/1st partyaction games.

Nike_Air

/thread.

TFU is actually one of the best Wii 3rd party action games.Lulz.

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#9 TheNextOrder
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[QUOTE="Nike_Air"]

On ps3 .... it sits there as a mediocre licensed game at best in a sea of great 3rd party/1st partyaction games.

stvee101

/thread.

TFU is actually one of the best Wii 3rd party action games.Lulz.

So then why did it sell so good on the 360 which has arguably the biggest library of quality games?

/thread re-opened

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[QUOTE="Nike_Air"]

On ps3 .... it sits there as a mediocre licensed game at best in a sea of great 3rd party/1st partyaction games.

stvee101

/thread.

TFU is actually one of the best Wii 3rd party action games.Lulz.

Its a mediocre title on all platforms........ and its not one of the best Action titles on the Wii it doesn't come close to either MadWorld or NMH or even Bully... I got the game thinking the WiiMote would be used well and I was wrong to an extent...
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Umm, how old is StarWars TFU?

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#12 TheNextOrder
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Umm, how old is StarWars TFU?

clyde46

I believe its around 6 months old... but thats the point. The PS3 version outsold it at first, but over and extended period of time the Wii version has better legs and came out on top.

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#13 deactivated-5d6e91f5c147a
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In the end, we all know that it wasn't that great of a game anyways.
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#14 Nike_Air
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[QUOTE="clyde46"]

Umm, how old is StarWars TFU?

TheNextOrder

I believe its around 6 months old... but thats the point. The PS3 version outsold it at first, but over and extended period of time the Wii version has better legs and came out on top.

Competition on the platform and userbase numbers/demographics.

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#15 TheNextOrder
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Unrelated but Taketwo would be stupid not to at least rerelease GTA III, VC and SA on the Wii. It would sell a couple million easy given that big name games do well on the Wii.

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[QUOTE="stvee101"]

[QUOTE="Nike_Air"]

On ps3 .... it sits there as a mediocre licensed game at best in a sea of great 3rd party/1st partyaction games.

TheNextOrder

/thread.

TFU is actually one of the best Wii 3rd party action games.Lulz.

So then why did it sell so good on the 360 which has arguably the biggest library of quality games?

/thread re-opened

That made me :lol: Wow... On Topic: Yeah, if you looked at Kansasdude2009's thread, Wii games have big strong legs.
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[QUOTE="bf2nutta"][QUOTE="stvee101"] I got the game thinking the WiiMote would be used well and I was wrong to an extent...

I was extremely pleased with its control scheme. Sure, you can waggle your way through everything lightsaber-related but, as the name implies, the game is all about the force, and force powers were incredibly fun and intuitive with the Wiimote and nunchuk. The one thing that really needed much, much, MUCH more refinement were the cutscenes, which were inexcusably ugly.
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#18 rorskarch
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look at you and your little sales games.
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#19 PSdual_wielder
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look at you and your little sales games.rorskarch

I know, this doesn't even have to do with which console is better!!

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#20 JB730
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impossible.

3rd parties don't sell on the wii - the experts of system wars have confirmed this to be a certified fact

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#21 JB730
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[QUOTE="stvee101"]

[QUOTE="Nike_Air"]

On ps3 .... it sits there as a mediocre licensed game at best in a sea of great 3rd party/1st partyaction games.

TheNextOrder

/thread.

TFU is actually one of the best Wii 3rd party action games.Lulz.

So then why did it sell so good on the 360 which has arguably the biggest library of quality games?

/thread re-opened

lol

cow logic failing yet again

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#23 XBebop
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Not surprising that it would because most people that own a Wii are casual gamers and look for deals on old games probably instead of buying a game at launch.

torontomapleafs
TFU is still $45-50 everywhere.
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#24 Lionheart08
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Good for the Wii owners who bought it then.