House of the Dead: Overkill Meets sales expectations, MadWorld sales encouraging

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VB: Sega is also going after the core audience with games like House of the Dead: Overkill and Mad World. How are consumers responding to those Mature-rated titles?

SR: House of the Dead has done very well and has absolutely met our expectations. The first set of data for Mad World is very encouraging, as well.

VB: Do you see franchise potential for Mad World with sequels?

SR: If it resonates with the audience, yes, we absolutely want to make that into a franchise. I think it's unique, and there are many aspects of that game which are sort of pushing boundaries. And it's just great fun.

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Good news for those who want more of these franchises and overall, want more 'core', 'mature' titles.

Glady SEGA is happy with their performance.

Good news. I'm sure the sales will go up by the end of the year. I still need to get me either of those.SER69

[QUOTE="SER69"]Good news. I'm sure the sales will go up by the end of the year. I still need to get me either of those.Haziqonfire

[QUOTE="Haziqonfire"][QUOTE="SER69"]Good news. I'm sure the sales will go up by the end of the year. I still need to get me either of those.clicketyclick

[QUOTE="clicketyclick"][QUOTE="Haziqonfire"] I need to play House of the Dead, though i did buy MadWorld for $59 ... and now its $39 in Canada :(Haziqonfire

I love you. ^___________________^

Sale ends the 9th. I notice it's not at Future Shop, although they're the same company...

That pisses me off hard, at the sale price madworld is a great purchase. I'm peeved also I'm actually quite shocked that it would go on sale so soon and for such a big discount.

Great news but I wouldn't really call MadWorld unique like they did. It's basically Godhand with black and white cell-shaded graphics.

EDIT: Don't take the wrong way but I don't think HoTD:OK was that expensive to develop so I don't think it was that hard to reach a happy sales mark :P

Oh, its on sale. I thought it was just a price cut and it would eventually happen at all stores. Still, I got ripped off :(.Haziqonfire

Paid 50$ for No More Heroes,40$ for Zack & Wiki,45$ for Okami,50$ for Bully,50$ for Tales,60$ for Excite Truck.

It does stink to be impatient. :P

Games like Madworld and HotD: O will encourage publishers to make more hardcore games. If you do not support games like this you will see less of them.

WIi games have legs. Remember all the fuzz when TFU was selling poor on the Wii? it ended being the best selling version by a wide margin.loco145

Silly Sega lol

House of the Dead is doing well

Madworld on the other hand is doing terrible. Of course he can't come out and say it's doing terrible because that probably means he gets a call so he says that it's coming along.

[QUOTE="loco145"]WIi games have legs. Remember all the fuzz when TFU was selling poor on the Wii? it ended being the best selling version by a wide margin.r_gam3

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

Silly Sega lol

House of the Dead is doing well

Madworld on the other hand is doing terrible. Of course he can't come out and say it's doing terrible because that probably means he gets a call so he says that it's coming along.

Rocky32189

Even if the real numbers are double that it's horrible

I can't believe no one brought up VGChartz yet!!!!!!

Blasphemy, I say!

Great news but I wouldn't really call MadWorld unique like they did. It's basically Godhand with black and white cell-shaded graphics.

EDIT: Don't take the wrong way but I don't think HoTD:OK was that expensive to develop so I don't think it was that hard to reach a happy sales mark :P

JLF1

I don't think any game for the Wii would be that expensive to develope.Especially compared to the other 2 systems.

Companies aren't smart if they don't try to utilize that.

Godhand with black and white cell-shaded grafix sounds pretty unique to me but I see what you mean.

uglyhippos

Except that it was made from the same crew who presented Godhand, and given even more financial backing by a bigger company than before.

So this is more or less the sequel to Godhand with that story writer from Final Fantasy Tactics thrown in.

Does Clover still get to be unique when they are Platinum?

Silly Sega lol

House of the Dead is doing well

Madworld on the other hand is doing terrible. Of course he can't come out and say it's doing terrible because that probably means he gets a call so he says that it's coming along.

[QUOTE="r_gam3"][QUOTE="loco145"]WIi games have legs. Remember all the fuzz when TFU was selling poor on the Wii? it ended being the best selling version by a wide margin.clicketyclick

It would be nice to see numbers that back up these claims

It would be nice to see numbers that back up these claims

firefox59

dont like shooters on rails.... And they are working quite well on wiivseo

I hope the games sales goes up they are great games to play.

Stupid Game Stop.

I went sunday to pick up HOTD: 2 & 3 for twnety bucks. Due to Game Stop's policy of taking the games out of the package, the clerk had to go back and get the disk and put it in the box. When I got home and put the disk in, I realized that Game Stop had screwed up andgave me an Overkill disc instead. Needless to say, I am pleased.

Stupid Game Stop.

It would be nice to see numbers that back up these claims

firefox59

[QUOTE="SER69"]Good news. I'm sure the sales will go up by the end of the year. I still need to get me either of those.Haziqonfire

I know what you mean, I bought it for $54.99 and it dropped to $39.99 a couple weeks after. Oh well it was worth the money I spent anyways so I'm not too upset. Anyways good news on the sales front. I was worried about MadWorld especially after the recent price drops in Canada and Europe. I'd like to buy Overkill too but $60 is too much for a rail shooter.

It would be nice to see numbers that back up these claims

Silly Sega lol

House of the Dead is doing well

Madworld on the other hand is doing terrible. Of course he can't come out and say it's doing terrible because that probably means he gets a call so he says that it's coming along.

Silly Sega lol

House of the Dead is doing well

Madworld on the other hand is doing terrible. Of course he can't come out and say it's doing terrible because that probably means he gets a call so he says that it's coming along.

Silly Sega lol

House of the Dead is doing well

Madworld on the other hand is doing terrible. Of course he can't come out and say it's doing terrible because that probably means he gets a call so he says that it's coming along.

i hope they would keep making game like this

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

Silly Sega lol

House of the Dead is doing well

Madworld on the other hand is doing terrible. Of course he can't come out and say it's doing terrible because that probably means he gets a call so he says that it's coming along.

kardine

Yes and you don't understand what PR is

Sega has Madworld ads on all the time in North America and Europe and they can barely sell ten thousand here and can't even meet that overseas

Madworld is doing worse then anyone expected.

For some reason people are listening to Sega's PR guy making it seem like there's something we don't know.

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

Silly Sega lol

House of the Dead is doing well

Madworld on the other hand is doing terrible. Of course he can't come out and say it's doing terrible because that probably means he gets a call so he says that it's coming along.

kardine

It's true that not all games need to sell 1 million and it's all about profit but if MadWorld was selling good and was profitable then they would have said the same thing about MadWorld as they did with HoTD: OK.JLF1

HotD had a month's head start over MadWorld. Consequently, if both are selling at the same rate, they will not meet sales expectations at the same time.

Since HotD met sales expectations within two months, and if MadWorld is selling at the same rate, they'd conclude that MadWorld will meet sales expectations the next month (i.e. within two months of its release), and would therefore say that its sales are encouraging, because it appears to be selling at the same rate as a game that has met its sales expectations within 2 months of release.

Expecting them to say the same thing about MadWorld as they do about HotD is equivalent to expecting that MadWorld sell two times as fast as HotD, and that is not realistic.

[QUOTE="kardine"][QUOTE="nintendoboy16"] Sega was actually quite happy with Madworld sales. I really don't see how it's doing awful.Jaysonguy

Yes and you don't understand what PR is

Sega has Madworld ads on all the time in North America and Europe and they can barely sell ten thousand here and can't even meet that overseas

Madworld is doing worse then anyone expected.

For some reason people are listening to Sega's PR guy making it seem like there's something we don't know.

[QUOTE="kardine"][QUOTE="nintendoboy16"] Sega was actually quite happy with Madworld sales. I really don't see how it's doing awful.Jaysonguy

Yes and you don't understand what PR is

Sega has Madworld ads on all the time in North America and Europe and they can barely sell ten thousand here and can't even meet that overseas

Madworld is doing worse then anyone expected.

For some reason people are listening to Sega's PR guy making it seem like there's something we don't know.