Somebody from IGN’s staff made that thread on IGN’s Wii boards.
The next day Matt Cassamina writes an article about The Grinder becoming a multi-platform title.
He can be seen on the comment section saying:
“Sorry guys. Fact is, Wii is a really tough market for a game like this. Can’t really blame High Voltage for not wanting to sink everything into a Wii-exclusive just so nobody will buy it because it doesn’t star Mario and doesn’t come packed with a Balance Board.”
Some poster answered:
“sorry Matt but I have to disagree with you, when a stellar game like Bayonetta bombs on the 360 that game got high scores over 90 avg on metacritic, heavy marketing with TV ads and people still didn’t buy it, some games just don’t sell well.
There are plenty of mediocre FPS on the 360 and PS3 that don’t sell as much as 350,000 but nobody says anything.”
Cassamina replied:
“You’re right, to some degree. But 350,000 copies for The Conduit is worldwide. In america, it sold about 180,000. Let’s compare that to another new IP launched in the same month for Xbox 360. Prototype has done nearly triple the sales of Conduit on 360 alone.
It’s just a hard sell. We all want these games to do well on Wii, but with a few exceptions — major name brands like Call of Duty — they haven’t really performed.
A lot of us who consider ourselves ‘core’ players will buy this stuff. But more and more, we’re becoming the minority in the spectrum of the Wii audience. And publishers are, as a result, less likely to gamble on mature-rated titles made just for Wii. I have no doubt that’s the reason why The Grinder is going multiplatform.”
IGN is so amusing(like a train wreck) these days.
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Matt is like the waterboy for the Industry.
Are there any real journalists among the ‘game journalists’ who have the spine to stand up to the Industry? Are any of them willing to stand up for gamers? What is so enticing about carrying the Industry’s water?