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Techspot.com brings up the years-old topic on whether the general Wii audience is interested in mature or 'hardcore' games, using the examples of the recently-released ultra-violent Madworld and the upcoming Capcom game Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles.
Sega and Platinum Games were hopeful that Madworld would be a success, but the game didn't even manage to hit the 70,000 sales mark. Capcom have revealed that they are confident that Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles will sell well, as Umbrella Chronicles did.
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Developers like Sega have challenged that notion, who believe that the “family-oriented” Wii could be a target platform for more mature audiences as well. To that end, they helped Platinum Games deliver MadWorld to the Wii, one of the very few “violent” games the console has to offer. To their dismay, despite good reviews and coverage, the game has sold poorly, not yet achieving even 70,000 units sold.
Meanwhile, Capcom plans to bring the very successful Resident Evil series to the Wii, and believe that the current failure of MadWorld is not indicative of what could be achieved with the console. Masachika Kawata of Capcom has no concerns about sales of their upcoming Resident Evil: The Dark Side Chronicles on the Wii, and believes that other titles, like Dead Space, will only help encourage more competition on the Wii for “hardcore” gaming.
Confidence aside, there's certainly a stigma to overcome with the Wii. Nobody can dispute that it's a successful console, but it's successful for very different reasons than the PC, Xbox 360 or PS3. Can the Wii really translate hardcore gaming well enough to capture players?
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Disregardng that, Umberella Chronicles and RE4 Wii both sold more than well enough, that's already enough reason this should sell. Using Madworld as an example is ridiculous, Madworld was a new IP with a very unique 'style' that only appealed to a small range of gamers, it wouldn't of fared any better on the 360 or PS3. Resident Evil is an stablished franchise with plenty of fans stretched across all consoles and appeals to a much wider audiences than Madworld ever will.
What Zaraze said, Madworld is a new IP and has a very distinct taste only a certain few are willing to buy.
It also came out on the same month that Resident Evil 5,Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.S., Halo Wars all which has a huge fanbase and several people willing to buy, not to mention all the other previous games that came out before march.
IMO MadWorld would have done WORSE trying to fight a lineup like that.
Oh and on top of all that as dwg said, on the 360/PS3 it would of also had several much bigger releases during the same time period to compete with.
But even if you are right, that still doesn't change my point that comparing a game like Darkside Chronicles to Madworld for sales is stupid, they're completely different genres, one is from an established ip and the other was new, and none of Clover's/Platinum's games have ever sold well on top of that, plus there are already games of much closer similarity on teh console to compare against.
Oh wait.
I should really sell it actually, this game will be the last thing I play on the Wii then, i guess.
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