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House of the Dead: Overkill Sells 45K
The M-rated grindhouse film-inspired gore fest House of the Dead: Overkill has managed to make a modest bit of headway on the typically family-friendly Wii.
The light gun game from Sega and U.K.-based Headstrong Games sold 45K units during the month of February, NPD told Edge. The game launched February 10.
NPD analyst Anita Frazier said it landed around the 50th spot in the top-100 SKUs for the month in unit sales.
Sega's lineup of M-rated Wii games includes House of the Dead: Overkill, Platinum Games' MadWorld (launched in March) and June's The Conduit, from High Voltage Software.
Sega of America has said that developers are missing an opportunity to cater to the hardcore gamers that have bought Wii, a console that Nintendo positions as typically family-friendly.
House of the Dead: Overkill recently earned a rather dubious honor from Guinness World Records as the "Most Profane Game."
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What about Dead Rising Chop Till you Crop? Released Feb 24? I saw it started off cold in Japan... Wondering about the US... Disaster: Day of Crisis also did poorly in Europe and Japan despite great review scores... There was no marketing dollar behind the title, and it's not even listed for a US release. It's not that there is no hardcore title on Wii... It's more that Nintendo makes a terrific job at not promoting them, so afraid they are to lose their "family appeal"... MadWorld? also not promoted by Nintendo at all; SEGA is on its own. Fatal Frame IV... The list goes on. If you want hardcore games to find its audience on your platform, you gotta f**in' support them!
Hear, hear.
Rail Shooter, brrrrrrr, many "experienced gamers" on Wii will not take it anyway.
We wiil see on Cunduit if Sega bet was right or wrong, also Mad World will have a better appeal.
if they turn it into another Typing of the Dead and allow USB keyboard support, I'll buy it.
That game was awesome.
At the end of the day, it's a rail shooter. How much are we expecting it to sell?
The thing with Wii is it dos have alot of casual players....they don't really go out and buy every game that maybe good. But alot of them will go and buy software for their Wii every now and then......thing is there's alot of Wii owners so when they go and buy a new title some may pick up the title.....so It could hit 1 million
45K in launch month? It needs more then legs, sir.
HotD2&3 had humble beginnings too and it blossomed pretty nicely. Another example would be Call of Duty: World at War - terrible first month, but monster legs during Xmas season (albiet two superior HD skus available).
Friendly wager: HotD:O will be a million seller by the end of 2009. I'm callin' it. Taker?
Game on, I'll take that wager.
Anyone wanna further bet against me, I don't believe it will pass 500k by end of 2009? Anyone?
I'll take you up on that.
I'll take you up on that. Unless it has "party", "backyard", "Mario", "wiggle/waggle/wave/flail/convulse" (sorry had to) in the title or is an accessory with a game pack in it won't hit 1 million. I'm teasing of course, but I don't think this game will hit 1 million. Are you talking worldwide?
Yup. Worldwide.
Hmm...still don't think it will. If we're both still on here by the end of '09 I guess we'll see huh? Unless of course it shoots to 1 million quicker than that.
I'll be around. And this thread is bookmarked for future crow-eating! But who will it be!? lol! We'll find out at the end of the year.
I'll bite too. If it can't break 50K in the biggest territory during the first month it's out, it's not gonna do 1 mil. I'm backing Nick on this one. I see 600k tops by year end, even if word of mouth takes off.
Even 350k-400k would make SEGA very happy. It's probably their expectation actually. Even they wouldn't bet on a million.
Point of comparison: Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles. A railshooter that did shift 1 million copies.
It sold through 147, 600 (triple to HoD overkill) in its first U.S. month. It also sold 83,000 pieces in its first Japanese week. It made it into the UK top 10 too in its release week over there. A heck of a different start, huh?
HoD Overkill is a much better game than Umbrella Chronicles, don't get me wrong. But its brand appeal is less and the timing of its launch is very different.
Let the legs begin!