It dosnt prove its a cash cow.
It DOES proove there is a traditional gamer audience bigger then that of the gamecube.
If even one game sales in that quantity...let alone a few...it means the audience is there..
Unless people are buying more then one copy of Re4 each (unlikely) or people are buying it thinking its a sports game (even more unlikely)....then it pretty conclusively prooves there is an audience for those sorts of games at least as big as the gamecubes.
In fact, its going to be much bigger, because many people (like myself) arnt buying Re4 only because they already had it on the cube or ps2.
So the -potential- audience for Re like games is probably at least double what even those sales figures were.
3rd partys just clearly arnt making appealing enough games. Which is quite obviously when you look at the feebleness of there releases to this point.
\"You have to be careful with franchises like monster hunter and DQ. They will sell almost on any console in japan.\"\"
So?
That dosnt mean the audience is smaller, it just means your getting people actualy buying the console specific for that game...thus making the \"traditional gamer\" audience even bigger.
\"You need to know your audience, with 75% of Wii owners not playing any games but ones that Nintendo releases or party games. The hardcore percentage is still small, \"
No, it ISNT.
Its small as a percentage, but as Re4 sales clearly show it must...in total numbers...be quite a bit bigger then the cube.
And its total numbers are important, not percentages.
\"So well established franchises have sold. new franchises dont sell. But they arent just new they are incredibly niched. NMH, madworld, little kings story, HOTD dont scream mass appeal. But then a game like conduit might have sold half a mill over all regions had it been on 360.\"
Dont think so.
Conduit is only considered special due to its controlls.
I think it would probably have sold worse on other platforms.
New franchise\'s do struggle, but thats true on any platform.
Even something as nifty and as well advertised as LittleBigPlanet didnt do that well commercialy.
You could dismiss that as a niche genre too.
But then TooHuman tanked on the Xbox, and thats a pretty mainstream game.
Its hard doing a new IP on any platform..save possibly the DS.
\"But games from nint and third parties havent been enough to keep many from jumping ship.\"
That only maters if they actually sold the console, which is still a fairly minority market.
( Edited 07.08.2009 10:49 by Darkflame )