Sega’s Modest Success for M-Rated Wii Games

20 March, 2009 1 March, 2022

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Sega’s war on the Wii has been paying dividends recently as both M-Rated Sega Titles released for Nintendo’s supposedly “family friendly” console have been performing well on the sales front.
First up, as reported by Edge by way of NPD, House of the Dead Overkill sold a very respectable 45,000 units in America alone for the month of February. This places it around 50 in the top 100 games sold that month. The game continues to sell well in the UK too where it’s been within the top 40 since release, this week at number 28 in the UK all format chart. Sonic & The Black Knight released last week in the UK managed to place number 30 in the chart, underlining Overkills success.
MadWorld was unleashed in America earlier in March and thanks to TSSZ News reader MilesDX our attention has been drawn to how well it’s sold in it’s first week. The game currently sits at number 9 on VGChartz American Chart for the week ending 14th March 2009 having sold an already very impressive 57,553 units. The game was released in the UK and Europe today so we should find out how it’s done there at the beginning of next week.
All this is good news for Sega who are aiming to prove it’s not just shovel ware or first party games than can sell on the Nintendo Wii. Indeed Sega of America have been quoted on the Edge website as saying,

“…developers are missing an opportunity to cater to the hardcore gamers that have bought Wii, a console that Nintendo positions as typically family-friendly.”

Have you bought either game and do you consider yourself a ‘hardcore’ gamer? Has your Wii been collecting dust until recently thanks to the influx of new titles from Sega? Let us know in the comments section below.

This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

10 Comments

I’ll stick with Sonic.

My Wii’s still collecting dust. These games won’t change that either.

Like Sonikku Master said Ill stick with Sonic but its so good to see these games sell well and finally have SEGA give a lesson to all the other companies.

I’m supposed to be getting Madworld, I’m not totally sure I’ll like it though. I have like no games for it, but my Wii has been far from collecting dust. I’ve just been playing the hell out of my old games. Brawl, Unleashed, Zero Gravity and NiGHTS especially.

@Sonikku Master: Ditto. I don’t mind violence in video games…but games like this are a bit over the top for me…
That and I think this game is banned here….

Where are you TailstheHedgehog?

My parents say that I’m not old enought to play these games and I’m not so intrested anyway. I hope they let me play the Conduit…. I love sci-fi! And good first person shooters! And my Wii have no dust on it, but it’s sad that it isn’t so many hardore games. I want more games with voilence on Wii….

There’s a lot of violence hating people here; for me this game looks fun, I dont mind the violence and this game was created by the people that made Okami and Viewtiful Joe, so I think Ill buy it so my wii stop collecting “dust”

Still, I will have to say I agree with the sentiment of the quote. I wish more devs knew about that.

Got overkill and it is seriously one of the funniest games I have play for a while. Loved the flavour of the game. Bit short but I dont mind that… its hardly like I would enjoy an epic 40+ hour of on rail light gun shooting…. anyway hows sonic doing?

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