Topic: Which company should publish The Grinder?

I read through the Wiki page for The Grinder and realized that there wasn't a publisher. So just a simple question: who should publish The Grinder?

Sega, surely? Or are they just going to keep waving their "Wii hates mature" banner all over the place?
_{singin' we will, we will rock you}

Yikes

It's almost as if asking who wants to pay a lot of money to not make a lot of money.

Smaller publishers certainly don't have the money to take a risk on such a poor developer so it'll almost have to be someone big. And the only big publisher that I see taking them is Sega again.

Sega already has the relationship and they can afford to take a hit if the game turns out to be another low scoring, low selling game.

The company with the least self-respect.

So yea, Sega is definitely a good choice.

Sega it is, then.

If this is a reference to The Conduit then I'm pretty sure you're wrong on both counts. Sega does seem the obvious choice though.

Pretty sure everyone except Sega (who can't say the game did bad) said the game did poorly.

And review wise it was pretty much agreed that the game was over-hyped, unoriginal, and the highly touted online probably couldn't have been more glitchy. If you took away the Wii controls the game would have absolutely nothing and on any other platform it probably would have been considered shovelware.

The game was a failure on all fronts. Except to Wii fans that are just in love with Wii controls, but even they have a better game now with Reflex.

I would say probably Sega or Ubisoft.

I'm no FPS guru, but I thought the Conduit is a good game and step in the right direction for HVS. I could see Sega picking up the Grinder, and I expect the Grinder to flesh out and improve the areas where the Conduit could be better.

Maybe the shortcomings of The Conduit will be addressed in The Grinder? SURELY, we all learn from our mistakes.

_{oh, and yes I just called you Shirley}

+1 for the Airplane reference

Well if SEGA won't published it then Xseed or Ignition maybe?

Couldn't agree more.

http://nintendoeverything.com/27012/

I know you have a problem with HVS for some reason, but honestly your exaggeration of the "poor" performance of The Conduit is getting a little old.

Yikes

The game may have just cracked the 300,000 mark and you think that's good?

Other games do that and people laugh at them yet when it comes to this game people are like 'well it's a good start'

If I worked on a game for two years, and had a lotta hype rollin' for it, and touted it as the next best thing, and advertised it on national television and only one in every 250 Wii owners cared to buy it, I wouldn't be happy.

Any 3rd party release that cracks 6 figures is doing pretty well actually -- common complaint amongst 3rd parties -- or haven't you been reading the news in the past year?

So they're at the top of the bottom of the barrel? I'm sure they threw a party.

Sega or Ubisoft or THQ

VGChartz has The Conduit's sales at 380,000 units (worldwide). Given the hype it's fair to say it underperformed, and I'm sure the 70%-ish critic scores didn't help sales any.

Still, the user scores on IGN and GameSpot peg the game between an 8 and 8.5 out of 10, and Amazon's average user score is 4/5 (8/10), which is the same. So yeah, I think it's fair to say the general consensus among the Wii population for The Conduit is an 8/10, which is certainly not bad.

Interestingly, it sold less than MadWorld (again, according to VGChartz, around 400,000 units).

They must have Adam

Apparently the news is different across the pond. lol