Dead Space Extraction Sells a Mere 9,000 Copies on Wii

That's a shame, because this is easily one of the best games on the Wii.

Yeah, it's too bad, because it likely means more crappy casual and mini-game type stuff for Wii.

It is a chicken-and-egg issue. If the games were there all-along, there would have been a market all-along. I'd love a decent more mature game on my Wii, but this game (shooter on rails, despite the marketing spin) just doesn't appeal to me. Besides, as the article implies, it is a game that came out a year ago on platforms that anyone interested in this genre already bought for their second (or third) console.

I applaud publishers for trying to bring harder core games to the Wii, but frankly the experiment continues to fail. The Wii punters, all 25 million in the US, seem not to care. They want their next Nintendo game not a game from EA, Ubisoft, Sega.

So I suppose this means that Activision wasted their resources in having Treyarch do a Wii port for CoD MW?

bockwai, more established mature franchises like CoD or Resident Evil tend to do better. Dead Space is still a relatively unknown IP, especially to the masses.

Frankly bockwai, CoD is a very rare success on the Wii, but is sales numbers pale in comparison to the install base. Given the high Wii install base, WaW should have sold boatloads.

I also think CoD has the name cache that allows it sell decently on any platform.

I think publishers need to rethink their strategies for exclusive games on the Wii. While this game made sense because the Wii never got the original Dead Space game, games like Madworld should have been released on the 360 and PS3 as well as the Wii, instead of being a Wii exclusive.

The majority of mature rated Wii exclusives are just proving that theres very little money to be made on the Wii for third parties who dabble in m rated games. These developers need to start either making mature games for all three systems or just releasing them on the 360 and PS3. Atleast that way they'll make a decent amount of money.

Well frankly Im not surprised. Not because this is a hardcore game on wii, but because EA marketed this game poorly i saw ZERO ads for this game on tv or magazines other than a few gaming mags, And another reason is that the First dead space on ps3 and 360 was well recieved by the critics also, and also sold poorly...New Ips are floundering left and right, and WE as gamers are to blame, we run out to buy the next HALO spin off, and COD and resident evil, but when something new and fresh like dead space madworld or beyond good and evil come out we pass it on. So yes Publishers will keep rehashing sequals, as long as we keep buying them, and Mini game collections as long as they are profitable. Shame ON US as gamers and Not EA or Sega or High voltage for making a great game on the most popular console.

Anthony: Dead Space may have undersold initial expectations on Xbox 360 and PS3, but not by this much. Gamers are speaking quite loudly with their wallets.

The fact that it had a budget that could easily double that of extraction makes it just as big of a financial failure, hardcore games that are established IPs always do better than those that are new Ips, Extraction though a fine game, at the end of the day was viewed as a quick and easy onrails shooter when it couldve been more in the vains of the RE4 wii edition with a dead space prequal story line, even though it wasnt. So It didnt undersell "initail" expectations, it just plain under sold, i stand by what i said, its a shame that when a quality product comes out like the likes of Beyond good and evil, mad world, or dead space, the same gamers that SCREAM there arent games for me on Wii, are the same ones that only buy established licenses on it and let good games like this one slip by.

The original Dead Space had good reviews and benefited from good word of mouth, eventually selling over one million copies. Extraction will do a fraction of this business and almost certainly not spawn a sequel, the way the first game will. EA was trying to capture the same audience as Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (which did pretty well for itself), but they didn't succeed.

Some may struggle to come up with convoluted explanation as to why a modestly hyped mature Wii title could move under 10k, but it's really simple: the core Wii audience isn't as big as some outspoken individuals assert.

it on. So yes Publishers will keep rehashing sequals, as long as we keep buying them, and Mini game collections as long as they are profitable. Shame ON US as gamers and Not EA or Sega or High voltage for making a great game on the most popular console.

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NPD pegged it at >9k, and all sorts of games bombed in this past year, just makes this one failed test out of the games that did sell decently (of which Spyborgs did not). A valiant effort, but the userbase simply doesn't value the title at $50 MSRP. Does it deter? Yes, of course. Should it stop publishers from trying? Of course not. There's still money to be had.

At least EA has more information on how to go about with a Wii game: you can't go super-casual (see all the shovelware that doesn't sell), yet you can't strip games of mechanics that were important to a series (even though it is a quality product like Dead Space Extraction). It's a more unpredictable market than the PS3/360 market, in which anyone and their mother can tell what sells on those systems.