SEGA backing away from mature Wii games?

SEGA backing away from mature Wii games?
Topic Started: Jan 3 2010, 02:02 PM (54 Views)
dscuber9000	Jan 3 2010, 02:02 PM Post #1
Hero of Time Posts: 7,952 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 25, 2005 Xbox Live Gamertag dscuber9000 Steam ID dscuber9000	If you are still playing your Wii (making you a TRUE Nintendo fan) then you would probably agree that Sega is the best third-party publisher in the last handful of months. The Conduit, House of the Dead: Overkill, and MadWorld were some of the Wii's best games all year, and all were published by SEGA. However, the sales for all of those games were not pretty, and in some cases, abysmal. Which is making SEGA question whether they should continue publishing games specifically for Wii that are targeting a more mature audience. Constantine Hantzopoulos SEGA Studio Director I have to say that it was a space that was open and we took a gamble on it. It�s like, �Wow, there�s no mature games on the Wii. Is there an audience out there?� We did some research, it said there was an audience out there. I won�t comment about Nintendo, they did champion The Conduit as a �this is a Nintendo game.� And, you know, I think they did okay by us. At the end of the day, I just think that you�re seeing kids are skewing much younger towards next-gen. ... But that begs the question, are we going to do more mature titles for the Wii? And it�s like, probably not. Look at Dead Space. We were stunned. That was my litmus test. Basically, it�s like, okay, you got EA, who can put all the marketing muscle behind this, an established franchise that scored quite well on 360 and PS3. They should be able to actually hit this out of the park, right? We get numbers, real numbers aside from NPD, and I�m like, �Woah. Source There really isn't much to say about the Wii. The games just aren't there, and when a pretty good game does release, it gets pirated more than it sells. Nintendo does not know how to deal with third-party publishers AT ALL and it is completely evident here. It will be interesting to see what Nintendo does next-generation because I doubt they can duplicate the business success of the Wii.



-Head(+)Shot-	Jan 3 2010, 02:50 PM Post #2
Cube Posts: 2,240 Group: Moderator Member #146 Joined: September 28, 2005 Xbox Live Gamertag Sharpshootist	What are people going to think looking back on the Wii? All of the casual crowd stuff? Maybe, but not in a good way. The Virtual Console is the only thing commendable beyond a handful of good games. All this casual gamer stuff is just fluff and fog, and Nintendo's out there trying to catch it all with a net.
	dscuber9000 Many clans (like our past affiliate, the ODL) have been literally hacked and destroyed simply because of some stupid clan war. I wouldn't necessarily want to get into that, but we have to have some kind of WiFi action. I think inter-clan prevents most of that. Glad to see that you're back. Quote: I'm not back can't you get that >:\| dscuber9000 Then where are you right now?


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