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Mature Games Failing on Wii and DS - Why?

GameStooge's Jordan Lund examines the numbers and tries to figure out why mature-rated games like MadWorld, GTA: Chinatown Wars, No More Heroes, and House of the Dead: Overkill struggle to sell in the United States.

Excerpt: "It seems like publishers of mature titles on Nintendo platforms simply cannot win for trying. People complain about Nintendo hardware heavily favoring "kids games", and yet when mature titles actually are released the reception tends to be positively frigid.

The NPD sales results for March were released the other day and among all the hardware statistics were some pretty shocking results for mature software."
JonahFalcon - contributor
Published: 210 days 19 hours ago | Article | Wii | Nintendo DS | Gaming | Industry News
 
 
 
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