April NPD or Everyone Drinks except Nintendo

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Aladuf

What's surprising about that? People can't stop forking out the money for these piece of shit non-games.

Game Party's Metacritic score: 25

And yet this thing is on the Top 20, fucking pathetic.


Edit: And people wonder when 3rd party developers will ever put out a respectable game on the Wii. Why the hell should they? If you can scrap together a "gem" like Game Party and be on the Top 20 and actually be moving up it, why the hell would you ever worry about making a quality game?

You damned if you do.
And damned if you don't if your Nintendo.

I won't defend GameParty. I've never played it. I don't plan on playing it.

But is there a chance.. a small small chance that people who buy it actually enjoy it?

I had a friend back in high school who swore up and down the high heavens that Superman 64 was an awesome game. He would come in everyday and tel us about the game. Now to the rest of us, this was a joke Superman 64 was an awful game or so I've been told. I've never played it and have no intentions to, but he did and he found some enjoyment in it.

The same could be said for GameParty or even the ton more of party games on the Wii.

And you complain about Game PArty selling well and its a reason developers shouldn't put real games on the Wii, but what other "real" 3rd party game came out in April that deserved to sell? You can't look at an arguement one-sided and make a conclusion. One game sold well, but there were no real comparable games for you to show sold poorly.

Also, I believe game party was only released in March not Dec I could be mistaken.

And also I think this is the game, I knew people who were interested in it because it had a version of beer pong. Take that as you will.