Destructoid recently posted a message from a member of Visceral Games who said they were disappointed with the poor sales of Dead Space Extraction. You can read about it here:
So apparently even when you make a title like DS:E, it doesn't sell well. Does that mean there's no audience for mature games or does it mean that Wii owners just don't like lightgun shooters?
What do you think? Are you for lightgun shooters in general?
I feel it's a definite yay--but yeah a lot of the world feels rail shooters are too limited. TBH i've never seen how the simple removal of holding the joystick in a certain direction to walk makes a game any less desirable...DS:E rocked and deserves to sell well...but yeah Visceral should've done the research on how relatively-poorly lightgun games sell before deciding down that path...if they did they'd have known this was coming, regardless of the game quality.
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YAAAAY! Definitly! Umbrella Chronicles was soooo fun playing it coop with my girlfriend and Dead Space was cool too. Darkside Chronicles will be the best so far...!
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Yay, wholeheartly yay. I would so totaly buy DS:E...if I didn't have a huge list of other games I want to buy and if I had more money that I don't need for silly things like food,laundry money and textbooks. Maybe I'll pick it up after Christmas when I'll have recieved extra money and/or gift cards.
I do enjoy light gun games, but I don't own any for the Wii, I have a feeling this is the same for a lot of people, hence the reason they are reasonably popular yet don't sell well.
I love lightgun games as well. The more the Merrier, they're good, simple fun. As for Dead Space, it's only been out a month, they shouldn't freak too much about sales until after the holiday season.
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I'm not a huge light gun fan (at least not since the NES days), but i do enjoy them a lot. HotD:Overkill is one of my favorite recent games (even without the excellent style and presentation, it's a good, solid shooter with tremndous replay value), and i really enjoyed Wild West Guns on WiiWare.
Didn't like the RE game though, more of a personal choice. I think it was a combo of the game needing a tad more polish for my tastes, along with my growing annoyance with the RE franchise in general (of which i used to be a huge huge fan).
What other "light gun" games are reccommended out there? I expect to pick up HotD 2&3 soon enough, but what else out there is reccommended for Wii in ther genre?
So apparently even when you make a title like DS:E, it doesn't sell well. Does that mean there's no audience for mature games or does it mean that Wii owners just don't like lightgun shooters?
Neither.
Light guns are arcade experiences. Easy to pick, hard to master, full of action.
DSE is not a light gun game. Is an interactive animated movie where the user can interact sometimes but not always. Is a pretty game in the exterior but is a mediocre boring game inside. Bottomline: it has all the issues that cinematic games of the last 2 generations but watered down because "teh wii uzers R stoopd duuuuuuuuude"
They could have made a quality 3d person shooter that addressed the problems of the HD version (it bombed on xbx and ps3 so it did something bad). Instread they keep treating wii users are dumb monkeys.
Stop blaming the customers and defending the snobish 3dparties.
I'd snap up another Prime 3-style adventure without a second thought, but raw FPS games (like Halo or Call of Duty) aren't my thing. Still, I'm a little suprised there aren't more lightgun games out there.
@TheFox - both games sold less than a million in both consoles and EA said that it didn't reached their expectations. I am not making that up. Investigate by your own if you want to.
Yes, they're awesome. Granted, I haven't bought any, but then again, I rarely buy retail games for me Wii anyways. Still, I like Light Gun games in general, and am happy that so many have been released on the Wii.
Dead Space sold about one and a half million units on the PS3/Xbox 360, which can't be considered a bomb by any means. As to liviing up to expectations, that just means that they had higher hopes for it. Doesn't mean it did poorly.
1.5 million in both machines is far from good for the HD consoles. Costs are higher and they have to sell 1 million at least in each one to consider it profitable.
My point is, not all games succeed. That has been since the NES games. But this is the first generation when companies blatantly insult users instead of reworking the game so more people could like it and spend their money.
Case in question: the first Megaman on the NES. The game failed, so for the sequel they fixed the problems and the 2d part was what really impulsed the series to grow.
But those were other times when gaming was more about what the customer would like and not the inverse. That was the REAL golden age of gaming. Customer was the King. Not the Bobby koticks of today.
Like I said, not a bomb. Making costs back is another thing altogether.
Dead Space Extraction is in no way an insult to the user. The game has recieved positive reviews, and has expanded on the backstory the original set up. Your logic is a bit confusing.
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