House of the Dead: Overkill, The Conduit, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Nintendo Channel data, Amazon.com Sales Ranks, GameRankings.com Review Averages
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Nintendo Channel Data Breakdown
Number of Players Reporting Data:
House of the Dead: Overkill has had 34,597 players report play-time data on the Nintendo Channel, since the game released in February.
The Conduit was released in June, and has had 50,821 players report play-time data on the Nintendo Channel.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare [Reflex] was released just in November and has 20,225 players report data on the Nintendo Channel.
New this week is Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles which has had 8,516 players report their data, since the game released in November. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles is replacing Metroid Prime: Trilogy
on the list, due to Metroid Prime: Trilogy no longer being published or shipped in North America.
"Total" Game-Play Hours Reported/Increased:
House of the Dead: Overkill had 284,474 Total Hours reported, an increase of 6,833 hours from last week.
The Conduit had 1,111,276 Total Hours reported, an increase of 22,130 hours from last week.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare [Reflex] had 487,387 Total Hours reported, an increase of 83,480 hours from last week.
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles had 84,039 Total Hours reported since it released in November.
Amazon.com Sales Rank:
New this week is Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles which has had 8,516 players report their data, since the game released in November. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles is replacing Metroid Prime: Trilogy
on the list, due to Metroid Prime: Trilogy no longer being published or shipped in North America."Total" Game-Play Hours Reported/Increased:
House of the Dead: Overkill had 284,474 Total Hours reported, an increase of 6,833 hours from last week.
The Conduit had 1,111,276 Total Hours reported, an increase of 22,130 hours from last week.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare [Reflex] had 487,387 Total Hours reported, an increase of 83,480 hours from last week.
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles had 84,039 Total Hours reported since it released in November.
Amazon.com Sales Rank:
's sale ranked is #670, and is selling for $27.99.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare [Reflex]
is ranked #123, with a selling price of $39.99.
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
is ranked #697, with a selling price of $46.31.
is ranked #123, with a selling price of $39.99.Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
is ranked #697, with a selling price of $46.31.Player Increase:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare [Reflex], again, saw the largest increase in players reporting data on the Nintendo Channel.
House of the Dead: Overkill had 1,154 more players reporting data this week, than last week.
The Conduit had 1,258 more players reporting data this week.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare [Reflex] gained 3,209 more players reporting data in the last week.
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles will have the number of players reporting data updated starting next week.
Thoughts:
I don't know why Capcom was complaining about Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicle's sales. Capcom should give Wii owners a new original Resident Evil game built from the ground up for the Wii, and stop giving Wii owners remakes and onrail shooters of the original Resident Evil games. I think an overall review score of 74.40% out of 100% shows that Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles isn't exactly meeting the quality of the better Resident Evil games before it.
Questions:
Do you think Capcom was correct in complaining about Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles' sales being poor according to Capcom? Or do you think Capcom is being lazy and giving Wii owners remakes, instead of a new Resident Evil experience?
If you're interested in purchasing any of the games in the article, you can see the game and "best price" on Amazon.com below:
Notes: The Nintendo Channel data was captured after the Nintendo Channel updated on Monday, January 18, 2010. Numbers of players reporting data are rounded down to the nearest whole number.
I think that in some ways Capcom is being lazy with the whole attitude with the "test" games to see if people who own the Wii want core content. There have been several core games of good quality that have sold well. While they may not have had the day one sales of Modern Warfare 2 they have still sold decent amounts.
ReplyDeleteI don't want an on-rail experience. I want the core gameplay. It doesn't necessarily have to be Resident Evil but I would like something like Lost Planet. I think Spyborgs could have been good if they hadn't revamped the game itself.
Oh well I am not sure if any of the 3rd parties really take the Wii seriously anymore or even believe that there are core gamers left on the Wii. In reality they just need to start producing quality games and they will see the sales they want it just wont happen on day one or within the first week.
Do you think Capcom was correct in complaining about Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles' sales being poor according to Capcom? Or do you think Capcom is being lazy and giving Wii owners remakes, instead of a new Resident Evil experience?
ReplyDeleteI think Capcom is just being lazy. If they really wanted to make a great Resident Evil game, they would. They can't rehash games and spit out onrail games that people have either played before with better graphics and new controls or a 3 hour onrail game with over the top plots and then complain. Well they can complain, but they shouldn't be surprised. The Resident Evil game series is awesome. I've played RE1,2,3 on the Playstation, Code Veronica on the Dreamcast, Zero on the Gamecube and all were excellent. They certainly are doing okay as a business and I think again, they are being lazy. Give the customer what they want, some new wii resident evil games. It's not like they can run out of stories.
I left the questions you posted in my post so I didn't have to keep scrolling up by accident. lol.
ReplyDeleteThinking back now, I don't think that Capcom is being lazy, but they through out a onrails shooter with RE:UC and had it perform well, so that means Wii owners will by rail shooters...no, they weren't lazy they seemed to put a lot of effort into the game, it was just a bad decision and not very good implementation. A Wii exclusive sequel to RE4 Wii would have been much better received.
ReplyDeleteNintendo has always remained my favorite and before purchasing it i actually had a verbal fight with my mom and my dad. At the end of the day they had to purchase a Nintendo for me.
ReplyDelete@NintendoGamer:
ReplyDeleteI think there are two problems with the game.
It came out in November against COD:MW2 and it came out against NSMBW.
The game itself has received mixed reviews, but for the "on-rails" fans, it seems to be a very well put together game. It's actually more than 20 hours of game-play from what I've read, so it's more than HOTD:O and Dead Space: Extraction if that's true.
@Nicodemus at Nite:
I don't know if they should complain, being that they haven't really given Wii owners anything new, other than the on-rail experiences from Resident Evil. Like I said above, the game has a lot to it, and it wasn't just a quick "cash-in" with few game-play hours. The game takes players through many of the Resident Evil games, but I don't know why they would complain, considering what they released it against in the month of November.
@Kyle in DE:
I'm still not sure why Wii owners aren't getting quality AAA content, but these spin-offs and retellings of the same stories, just in a different format.
@StorageCraft:
Not really sure what your comment had to do with Resident Evil or Capcom.
Thanks everybody for the comments!