‘The Conduit‘, ‘Madworld‘ and ‘House of The Dead: Overkill‘ did not exactly set the sales charts alight when they were released last year, far from it in fact!
Now Sega are attempting to milk a bit more cash from Australian gamers by compiling the three titles together in a pack called ‘Welcome To Violence’. Nice idea and the best part is it will only set you back about the price of one Xbox 360/PS3 game.
No word yet if this pack will see release outside of Australia yet but we wouldn’t be surprised.
Head inside for Sega’s press release if you feel that way inclined!
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Filed under Cool Stuff, New Media, News, Nintendo Wii, Press Releases by on Feb 24th, 2010. Comment. 
On the latest 1Up podcast, SEGA studio director – Constantine Hantzopoulos, was very open about his companies stance on mature Wii titles.
With the dissappointment of low sales for ‘The House Of Dead: Overkill‘ and ‘Madworld‘ in 2009 followed up with underwhelming sales of EA’s ‘Dead Space: Extraction‘, it seems the end of support from SEGA for this type of content has been confirmed, even though in the past SEGA pledged they would continue support, it seems sales of EA’s shooter was the final nail in the coffin.
“I have to say that it was a space that was open and we took a gamble on it. It’s like, ‘Wow, there’s no mature games on the Wii. Is there an audience out there?’ We did some research, it said there was an audience out there. I won’t comment about Nintendo, they did champion The Conduit as a ‘this is a Nintendo game.’ And, you know, I think they did okay by us. At the end of the day, I just think that you’re seeing kids are skewing much younger towards next-gen. And that’s what I saw out of Conduit. Because not a bad game, visually it’s appealing, right? AI wasn’t that great. High Voltage’s first real effort as an indie developer, creating their own IP. And it was a good effort, right? And there’s always Conduit 2, right? …Anyone past 12 years old was playing 360 and PS3 shooters. And at that point, you can’t tell a 13 year-old, ‘But it’s on the Wii.’ Forget it, you know? That’s not what they see or hear. They’re not really interested in any techno-fetishist aspects of look how great it is on the Wii…And, you know, the effort that we put behind multiplayer on that game to basically get by friend codes and provide worldwide match-making and so on and so forth, I actually thought we dove too deep…”
More after the jump…
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Filed under Developers, News, Nintendo Wii, Rumours & Speculation by on Jan 3rd, 2010. Comment.
So with ‘The House of the Dead: Overkill’ and cult action game ‘MadWorld’ not selling particularly well and The Conduit performing averagely, you might think that Sega have had enough trying to woo the ‘hardcore’ Wii crowd to buy their games and stick with the casual market that bought ‘Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games’ by the bucket load.
Fortunatey this is not the case as recently in an interview with wired.com, Sega President Mike Hayes and Sega Vice President of Marketing Sean Ratcliffe had some words to say about whether there would be further support of Sega’s mature titles on Wii:
“Absolutely. You’ll see more games in that genre coming from us.”
Short and sweet but that’s all we need to know! Head inside to hear more about there thoughts on why Madworld didn’t set the sales charts alight.
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Filed under Corporate, Developers, News, Nintendo Wii, Rumours & Speculation by on Aug 15th, 2009. 1 Comment.
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