Capcom France head wary of Wii, says 2010 will be a 'difficult year' for DS and PSP

wow, i didn't know anyone was stupid enough to use that fallacy anymore.

What a fitting username.

In my day, when a 13 year old boy dropped f-bombs, he had his mouth washed out with soap.

i'm sorry but it's true. most games on the wii that are not intended for the non-casual crowd.

@granger

welcome to the future.

They have them built in: Downloadable demos, game trailers, ads and blurbs (on the dashboard and PlayStation store respectively).

Dead Rising practically sold on the Xbox LIVE demo alone...

Also, I gotta say now that I own a Wii...the best part about having one is that all of these games bomb hard, so if you just wait like 2 months after release you can get them for around $20 at most places. It's easy to wait that long too, because there's no wii game out or coming out that makes me feel like I have to have it on Day 1, unlike 360/ps3.

Tmac, I don't know if you noticed but...........











.............nobody cares.................

And you clearly put up a good reason for not developing games for the Wii. For a mass market product, you need not just a fair amount of marketing but often an obscene amount. Especially for a new IP that is not familiar to casual gamers. Everyone will buy a Mario (or Mario & Sonic) game even if its trash because all you need to do is make a sequel masses are familiar with.

So, the problem with products today and this goes especially so for mass market products is that marketing just eats up so much of the budget and consumers end up paying for it in the end. With a market based on the "hardcore gamer" you do not need to find them via marketing. They usually find the product. Video games are nowhere near the acceptability that movies, music, and tv have. And to top it off the casual market is finicky and has more of an inclination to be interested in things JUST because something is popular and everyone is talking about it. As soon as the fad is over then on to the new one. Most of the people I know who have Wii say its a dust magnet for them. Their attach rates are real low even compared to PS3.

"Just because people can't come up with creative/innovative/good/ect games doesn't make it Nintendo's fault."

But yet, they are guilty of a fault. In the interest of costs, Nintendo underpowered their machine, and devs can't put the same sort of games over to it that they're having success with on the 360 and the PS3. It's OK, all of these things can co-exist and you're not tired of Wii Sports Resort yet, are you?

I guess it is pretty hard to play games on a system so delicate it can't handle it's own heat output. RROD FTL

"For us, SNK, the future is now!"

Something or othered...

But seriously, stfu.

"Corrected"

No see, Capcom wants to actually SELL software, so they're talking about the 360.

You know, technically, they could have cut off the quote after "Playstation" meaning Newguy is technically... aw screw it. There's no use defending a stupid comment.

"DC, on the other hand, had RE4 boost."

I really should have read that twice. It should read:

DC, on the other hand, 'NEVER' had the RE4 boost.

Also, a friend emailed me this story today, and the subject line read: 'your sucky rail shooter genre sucks.' It's like people are worn out with the rail shooter craze, or something.

DC did have the RE5 boost though.

Didn't Capcom promise a special Wii RE game (ended up being Darkside Chronicles) that would stamp out the desire for an RE5 port from all the people complaining that there wouldn't be one?

Seems almost as if they were banking on selling Darkside Chronicles no just to the Umbrella Chronicles audience, but really hoping to do well with Wii + PS360 owners wanting more RE after RE5.

It's not hard to figure out. They all just collectively have their heads up their asses and didn't want to divert resources from their PS360 development.
The Wii could have been a huge goldmine for them had they treated it like every other market leading console in history.

You know, i'm sure they've asked themselves if it was worth advertising everywhere, and then decided they couldn't be bothered.

Massive advertising campaigns aren't cheap, and if they aren't guaranteed the sales in return, then they simply can't spend that money.

It's a bit catch 22, but you can't really blame them.

Yeah and the worst thing is that comments like these are self fullfilling, get enough people saying something is gonna suck and nobody will put the effort into making it any good.

I'm just happy they're back to calling Okami a (moderate) success again.
It breaks my heart all over again every time they change their mind and go back to calling it a flop.
I'll take what I can get!

That's the most mind-boggling statement he made. DS and PSP are killing in Japan and DS is a murderous mayhem machine in Europe and North America.

That's a bizarre thing to say in general, and considering Capcom has some relatively major, higher profile DS titles hitting this year (not sure about PSP), it's even weirder.


...unless it's true that the DS2 will release in the fall / holiday season. Then I suppose I could see the DS sales taking a hit. I'm still not sure about the PSP though.

Thing is, it worked for Umbrella Chronicles - that sold nearly a million, iirc, and I don't think they advertised it particularly either. No wonder they're disappointed with sales.

If sales really are that poor (assume it sells five times that much in the end, that's still a tenth of UC), I have to say it's a bit inexplicable compared to those early sales.

Also, the game (Darkside Chronicles) is definitely good - well, given that it's a rail shooter. It's a reasonable length and is well worth buying for any RE fan. The voice acting is fun, the graphics are up there with the best on Wii (probably because it's easier to do good graphics in a rail shooter) so if you want to see the system looking pretty, that's a reason to get it too. When the game starts, there's a pre-rendered cutscene; then when that finishes, it goes straight into a second cutscene as you enter the village. The second one is in-engine, but for a few seconds I honestly wasn't sure of that because it looked too nice...

(Oh and it has a tofu zombies bonus level. Which I can't beat.)

Of course it's still a shame that Capcom didn't make a proper Resident Evil game for Wii (of course there's still time, but I doubt they will). I wonder if bad feeling about that is part of the reason for poor sales? Maybe.