Capcom: "Disappointment" over Resident Evil Wii sales

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Sales of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles on Wii have been a "disappointment", the director general of Capcom France has revealed.

According to Antoine Seux, sales of other mature games, such as MadWorld and Dead Rising, on the platform have also suffered as core gamers have "obviously moved on".

Speaking in an interview with Gamekult, Seux said that Darkside Chronicles had sold a disappointing 16,000 units by December 23 - lower than hoped.

The sales, he continued, pointed to a very clear problem with core gamers moving on from the Wii and its audience becoming a much broader one.

Resident Evil 4 on Wii worked well, he added, selling over 140,000 units. But as it was released in June 2007 the market "had nothing to do".

The situation has since "radically changed" he notes, with an oversupply of games in 2009. Core games are selling less and less on the Nintendo console, he suggested, with sales of MadWorld, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop and The House of the Dead: Overkill all failing to make significant impact.

In contrast, games such as Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and New Super Mario Bros "work great", he added. But the Wii market is becoming complex.

Seux's comments echo those made earlier this week by SEGA studio director Constantine Hantzopoulos.

The poor performance of EA's Dead Space Extraction - a game with plenty of marketing muscle - "stunned" the company, said Hantzopoulos, who added that SEGA probably wouldn't release any more mature games onto the Wii.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...evil-wii-sales

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Sadly, Nintendo is about the only company who truly understands how to be innovative and alluring with the Wii hardware. :/

Those new Resident Evil games were cool gun games and all, but really, where's the imagination?!

As for Dead Space...

...fans were kind of expecting something more like the PC and XBOX original. Why do these companies keep blaming the hardware and not their own lack of bright ideas.

Capcom needs to give us something like Resident Evil 4 again and Sega needs to bring back Alex Kidd not to Mention Wonderboy In Monster Land and provide the world with some hard core 2D gaming like they've never seen before! I've always been amazed that Wonder Boy has not made a come back considering all the Metroid/Castlevania addicts out there. Ever since the Wonder Boy in Monster Land series began, it has had that Side Scrolling, Action Adventure Appeal, especially in 2-4.