Monolith reflects on Disaster non-sales, mentions a sequel

Ouch. Well, I admit when I saw the first clip of it, it looked cool. I thought "This game looks pretty cool!" But after a while, it started to look like it would be less and less good. But no sales? Could there be any game that had worse sales. Well, maybe Daikatana...

if their going to make a sequel then Ninty of America's president, Reggie Fils-Aimé, needs to bring over the first Disaster game to North American Shores as i'm sure it'll do better in the USA then it did in Europe. also, i'm still gonna kick me some European butt!! damn you for not buying the fist one enough therefore resulting in the USA getting it much later (or AT ALL i even that)!! *shakes fist*

Why do you guys keep torturing us w/ news on this game?!

Though I'm assuming the reason they haven't brought it over to the US is due to past games like it that have failed. It seems like games on the Wii do poorly unless they have Nintendo, Sega or EA produce it.

I enjoyed the game enough to look forward to a sequel.

@ Mr Khan

seriously? hmmm i thought since Reggie was the president of NoA that it's up to him if a game gets released in America or not. but if NoA isn't the one's who determine what gets released in the US then who is i wonder? O_O

release this game to the last third of the larger video game market share territories, that's step one.

give the game positive reinforcement (you know, advertise it) before sales, that's two

make a sequel based on sales, that's three.

call me crazy but that's how usually games become successful.

I didn't know there was a website called Cubed3. My screen name is awfully close to it. Anyways, this game did seem interesting until it started sounding like a game one would play at the movies.

To be fair a lot of games that were expected to do well didn't (ie Zack and Wiki, de Blob) so it's not like Disaster has done much worse.

Plus there aren't many games like Disaster and it Monolith look at what worked well (Time Crisis shooting) and what didn't (some driving parts/handling) they could do much better.

I really enjoyed playing through Disaster and would certainly look out for a second.

It's not our fault no ones buying it, the blame lies purely with NoE. There has been zero advertising for the game, and last time I went in GAME they didn't even have it. No, not even an empty box. Same goes with HMV.

I also think they release was pretty badly timed, with so many other games on toher systems coming out in the same window. Maybe sales will increase in the run up to Christmas?

I havn't bought the game, though I really want it!

I live in the UK and upon release, I didn't see Disaster on the shelves.
I want to buy it and haven't yet only because I'm not working atm due to being made redundant and not being able to get a job because of the global recession and it not being top of my spending priorities until I get cash again.
Once I have cash I will be buying it.

There's all the talk of gaming being able to withstand the recession, and to an extent I would agree to this as people spend less money on gaming overall to get more entertainment time than other entertainment commodities.
You just have to look at how Wii is doing compared to other consoles (although I have to say that I want an xbox 360 for a number of games now that are not available on Wii) and this shows this as it's gonna be sold out before christmas yet again, and I wish I could get hold of Wii fit but again, this is sold out everywhere it seems and I'm not gonna pay upwards of double the price.

Honestly, I don't know what Reggie or Nintendo are thinking. This game was fantastic. I too went through the effort of importing it and was easily the most enjoyable game I've played on the Wii this year. As far as action-adventure goes this game was good fun and had enough elements to keep it fresh all the way to the end. It even has replay value.

They released the game with no notice, no real marketing after almost a 2 year delay and then you have the President of NoA saying saying it's unworthy of being localized (localized for where? the game is already in English) After all that, how could you expect such a game to have any decent sale numbers?

Like Ray would say, SON OF A B*TCH!

If this game came to America, I think it would sell. America just seems like the perfect place for this game.

I think with the right advertising campaign, perhaps something along the lines of a summer popcorn action flick (see also House of the Dead: Overkill), this game could do well in NA with a price point of $40.