Wii’s Worst Game Ever Sells 100 Copies
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 2, 2009 00:13 JST
- Tags: Fail, Marketing, Neko, Production Controversy, Video Gallery, Wii
The Wii’s curious lack of quality software is being highlighted by the release of the worst selling Wii title ever, Sukeban Shachou Rena Wii (“Woman CEO Rena”), a game centred on the managerial leadership of a talking female cat, Rena.
In the week since its release it has sold a total of 100 copies.
The game can be seen in action below:
The cat is undeniably well animated however.
The bustling scene of a post-launch event:
Sadly, with all this publicity (including a TV feature and a thread being featured on Itai News) there is now a danger of people actually buying the game out of morbid curiousity, creating a perverse incentive for developers of other spectacularly poor titles.
Even Nintendo’s CEO himself admits the console is having trouble securing a compelling line-up, and with such dismal titles as this and certain previous debacles, some might wonder if perhaps some kind of quality seal system might be useful…
At the risk of increasing its sales, the game is available internationally.
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Not a surprise really, the Wii already has a ton of shitty games out on the market. A prime example would be games such as Ninja Bread Man among others.
There needs to be a console for this kind of games as well.
not that bad lol
Yeah there's a need for them OK, but personally despite being a hardcore gamer it's the only console I wouldn't want to own. Even if I had a chance to get it free, I'd sell it. All because the games are exactly on the other pole from what I like. There are people that go well with casual/family gaming, and there are those who don't. As sales show, the other group is larger, and there's where I fall in.
Even casual games suck on the thing. My Ex's parent spent $400 for the damn thing day after launch and all it does is play Gamecube games, which in itself is also rare.
If you were a true hardcore gamer and you'd get the Wii for free, you wouldn't sell it. Instead you'd try to score the quality exclusives and ignore the junk. Do I need to remind you that Super Mario Galaxy is a Wii exclusive? No More Heroes? Super Smash Bros. Brawl? Super Paper Mario? Mario Kart Wii? MadWorld? "No, I don't want to play gaming classics because the system also has CASUAL GAMES!" Honestly. And you call yourself a hardcore gamer.
@ Anon 04:09 ^
Actually that's exactly what I'm doing (the free Wii and only getting the exclusives thing that you're talking about). My current Wii game collection consists of 7 games, all of them exclusives.
In truth the Wii is a Sex toy for women I believe they should just make a game that would shock the world title "Wii Hand job" the Video game where your Japanese whore trying to make money in a virtual world featureing Hand motion action.
Muramasa makes $400 for a Wii a bargain if you are actually a hardcore gamer...
As someone whos spent over a grand on single arcade boards, I can safely say your comments against the Wii are not that of a hardcore gamer. Just of some faggy university or highschool kid who can't afford to buy all the consoles. Grow up.
LOL, yes of course, if playing Mario, running around collecting some faggy 'shrooms and shit is grown up then I prefer to stay a "kid" (even tho I'm way past my univ) and not even touch such games with a stick.
13:58
That's actually shit worth spending money for. The Wii is not. You're the kid, because you don't realise adults don't have infinite amounts of money to spend on games/consoles. Especially shitty ones.
it's called the XBOX 360!!HAHAHAAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol jk,the xbox is okay.
OMG LET IT GO
MY PRECIOUS
MY PRECIOUS
MY PRECIOUS
Popstation has better games. Period.
same reason why i don't want to buy wii... but monster hunter tri is on wii... argh the humanity!!
The only good game I see on the Wii is Monster Hunter Tri-, but lolwut I can't just buy a Wii just for that game...
looks like every other wii game I've played
you only played that game?
I never even knew that a game this retarded could exist on a next gen console. I mean, I know E.T on Atari... but this is modern day. Pure proof that some companies don't give a shit about customers or quality, they just want money.
It's New Gen. The Wii is New Gen not Next Gen.
A seventh gen console(PS3/360) is called current gen. You can pretty much call the Wii a last gen console since it's practically made of GC hardware. Hell you can emulate Wii at full speed on a PC. Eighth gen is "next gen".
Can you emulate the control, thought, with games like Wii Sports or Super Mario Galaxy? Of course not. On top of that, even in older consoles like Dreamcast and Gamecube the emulation has lots of issues, so how do you expect to have perfect emulation on Wii?
*Sign*
It's called a mouse.
Dumbass.
You can use a Shitmote on a PC. It'll even support the retarded accessories. A PC can also use the controllers from actual current gen systems.
so... spend the money to make your PC a Wii?
why?
Because it's cheaper AND better?
...I've seen worse? although they are not on the wii though.
Agreed much, I think the cat's animation itself is a selling point. Now I wonder why those games which fails more actually got more sales than this...
Maybe it's because of my laptop speakers, but that jingling during the piano mini game was grating my ears.
No it not just you. it sound alone just like a maniac scratching a blackboard with his nails.
-10 points for sound effects
seriously what are they trying to pull ?
So what is this exactly?
I'm not even sure what genre it is.
The first video looks like a retarded shmup, the second a rhythm game(?) and the third... I don't have a fucking clue.
All I can hope is that this is the precursor to the next Video game market crashes', because god know the industry needs to die if this is the sort of shit devs are producing.
The genre is "random mini-games," a very popular genre on the Wii.
I'm impressed what shit some companies dare to publish. LOL
ugh... it's like the PS2 all over again
not that the PS2 was bad, but it has a LOT of shitty games just like this...
“a game centred on the managerial leadership of a talking female cat, Rena.”
That must remain as the gayest premise for a game EVER, of course until someone release “Sodomy, the videogame”
I'd buy that :D
i'd reconsider that if i were you...
That comment was awesome. I'm officially laughing my ass off.
You haven't watched "Muscle Men" for Wii?
THAT'S the gayest premise for a game
And the sad part?
It's a little fun
It's gay, yet very hilarious and entertaining. Something you can almost never find on PS3 and XBOX 360 games.
Ugh Nintendo just keeps shoveling out more and more crap. Even though they admit its the reason why their sales are going down it doesn't seem like they care. Their solution will be to release the Wii in different colours or something.
This game was developed by Jorudan.
But still avaible for a Nintendo console. Does Nintendo still retains that policy of pre approving the games published for its consoles?
I think that's what the "quality seal system" comment at bottom of the article is hinting at. Or rather, hinting at the now absence of.
This game isn't by Nintendo, so Nintendo isn't shoveling anything here.
Sure, they allow this crap, but that's their philosophy these days - aside from a technical check, you can publish anything (I'm a developer who has worked on Wii titles before, so I know).
Or would you prefer the censorship-heavy Nintendo of the 90s?
More open platforms mean more crap. That's the bitter truth.
Than answers my question... thanks a lot. And well, if you talk about early 90's Nintendo was the thing, I mean, for me SuperNES was the coolest console EVER.
Except its pretty bad when the crappy games out weigh the good games. If Nintendo then made an effort to make more quality 1st party games then I could overlook all the crappy 3rd party ones.
Who cares? Is someone forcing you to buy the crappy games?
^ This, who cares if a crappy game is released? It's not like anybody's forcing you to buy it or even play it.
If most of the games on a platform possess a certain characteristic, people will associate the platform with the characteristic.
Which of course, is rather idiotic.
LOL WII SUX CUZ DA GAEMZ SUX
Which is also absurd, as there are tons of great Wii games, they just tend to get overlooked.
Oh really Artefact. In that case, all PS3 games are over realistic, over westernized, mediocre crap. Because MOST of them are.
The NES had TONS of bad games. Just watch some AVGN, even some of the well known titles were pretty bad. But that didn't stop it from being one of the greatest consoles of all time, did it?
I can think a turd is great, doesn't make it great though...
protip: Nintendo did not develop this game.
This game looks awesome.
It can't get more japanese than this.
I would so play it...
Am I the only one who thought this game looks awesome?
Yes, you are. I mean it's only a couple of persons and a LOLcat in an office. Consoles nowadays can do ANYTHING imaginable. I mean, look at a Final Fantasy game, in those a Dragon can fire up a city and later be gang raped by extraterrestrial robots while two moons crash which each other...
It still looked damn cool.
I'm pretty sure lolcats do not hold managerial positions. L2P. Also, lol at kitty bullet hell. THIS GAME LOOKS AMAZING TO ME!
Nice job looking at it so literally. Also, games are all about lolgraphics amirite?
I was laughing at this until I saw the video of the "bustling" scene of a post-launch event. Just imagine what the depelopers must've felt like after putting their time and effort into creating a game, and no-one likes it.
And you've got to agree, there is a ton of games around on WiiWare, for example, that look far worse.
after putting their time and effort into creating a game
time and effort
effort
eff it.
actually, this is the first generation that nintendo hasn't had a game approval system
of all three major console makers nintendo is the only one that literally lets most anyone buy a dev kit, make a game, and publish it on their own
they hoped that the lack lengthy approval process was (initially) going to increse intrest in the wii and lower dev costs... but alas it has only unleashed the shovelware
Seriously? Then why aren't there any date-sims/eroge on this system?
There probably are a couple of wii ports of dating sims, as for eroge probably because of the CERO and ESRB and whatever europe's game rating system.
For a second there I thought you were talking about the iphone.
This is the same nintendo that still lets indie devs go through hoops to publish things, right?
I mean, a devkit still cost $15,000 - $30,000 last time I checked, and they still don't allow home offices.
someone should make a "Sankaku Complex the game"
and release it for the Wii!
As series of mini-games; All playable with 1 hand.
All so we can fap in the other.
Mini games like
Home made chikan
Loli quest
Penis on the run
Gold digger's hole
Gang-bare Loli
Trap-a-holic
Mad in Chira and many more
I lol'd myself to death.
it'd prolly be this game, just with loli
looks like neko-magic can't save this one...
....Why did I buy a Wii again?
If this keeps up, I'm going to put it in storage and get myself a ps3.
So... where can I buy a copy?
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-z3-49-en-70-3jgt.html
Hmm aren't nintendo already preparing another console to "compete" with PS3 and Xbox360?
Somehow recent nintendo attitude really disgust me. They milk Wii enough after that sort of abandoned it? Hah!
Well they already got new console prepare right? So no problem with them -Heh disgusting- Never change eversince Nes era.
The actual gameplay looks more like a really poor doujin game than anything released officially on the Wii. Usually I do at least rent really bad games like that just to experience it myself, but I don't think I'd ever play that game.
I think it's one of those things that's bad on purpose just to see how much of it they can sell. Just as an experiment in human psychology or something.
Wow um.
Wow.
We'll see the power of the Interbutts when this game suddenly spikes from the worst selling to the best selling only because of blogosphere attention...
YOU WIICASUALFAGS SURE GOT TOLD.
You again?
Next time Sony messes up, I'm going to pull off a nice little "YOU PS3NOGAMEFAGS SURE GOT TOLD." in your face. And if not me, someone else.
YOU RRoD 360 BETA TESTERS FAGS SURE GOT TOLD.
Now now,be positive... xD
Only 100 people owned the game in this world.. xD xD
And 99 people will return the game asking for their money back. As for the last person well they probably have bad taste in games.
Wii SUCKs.
looks better than 99% of wii games
A cat is fine too..
WTF?! You've got to be shitting me...
And just when I thought it couldn't get any dumber.
Who bought all those 100 copies anyway?! LOL
No, seriously. Tell me this is just a crazy joke.
>8]
Get those fuckin' developers OFF meth!
Any game with cats in it = win
Well...at least this game is better than Burger King's Sneak King.
Looks as good as any random wii title.
Casual gamers! The root problem and boon for Wii.
port love plus to the wii and it will sell
And this is why I will never own a Wii...
Every single console has had complete and udder crap for games. I assume you don't own any?
Surely he has but I think what he's trying to imply is that the BALANCE of games to shovelware is already blown out of proportion.
No need to look far, First party software says it all....
Wii Fit,
Wii Play,
Wii Music,
Wii
What's next? -____-
Maybe I missed them, but no one mentioned the danmaku-ish connection with the first video? XD
It's like Touhou, but with kitties and bunnies.
And kindergarten piano music in the background!
I'm more likely to buy this than Uncharted 2. Come on, it's a bunch of office guys hanging around (and flirting) with a cat. I'd take it over a sucky Tomb Raider clone anyday.
So what exactly is bad about the game again?
A copy of this game will cost a fortune some 20 years later.
This is worse then much of the flash shit I've seen on newgrounds.
wow im suprised it sold 100 lame game
Man....only good games for the Wii is Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros. Brawl, and the Raving Rabbids games...oh, and some of the virtual console stuff I guess...
I somehow feel really sorry for the developers of this game.
That was my only thought, too. Rather than mock the game and the sales, I just ended up feeling bad for the developers and the people who attended the marketing event.
I already want to play it!
Yandere cat?
I'd hit it
this sounds like a feminist game XD
And also cat loving one,i could see why some people would buy it.But i still haven't seen enough vids of it,youtube maintance.
Seen the vids in this thread
Lol.. worst game. but catch catching looks fun, itlest if it was iphone game or something ..lol
Cat scenes are cute thou. =3
It's all in the marketing. Just start telling people that you "Play with a Pussy!" and all the otaku in Japan will buy it up and they'll make a fortune.
LMAO, THIS GAME IS WIN
OMG, lots of lolz!
The 3 last vids are.... LOL
The sound effects in the piano video make me wish I was deaf.
Mysterious Voice: "More proof that Pretendo is going to fail. They are a gaming company in name only. In fact, you can emulate a Wii just fine on a PC, the only way you should ever be playing the thing. It's a worthless purchase and a total waste of money with no redeeming factors. Your money is better placed on a GameCube. Or a PC."
What about Smash Bros. Brawl? Or Twilight Princess? How 'bout Mario Galaxy?
Mysterious Voice: "Each of those has been done before on a past Nintendo system and better. Brawl is a dumbed down lowest-common-denominator downgrade of Melee, Twilight Princess will never match Orcarina of Time, and Mario Galaxy pales in comparision to Mario 64. Or even Super Mario World. And don't bring up the Virtual Console either, because with ZSNES you can simply get those titles for free, and get titles Pretendo will never release, such as Earthbound, or imported titles. There is simply no reason to buy anything from Pretendo anymore. A better investment is in a PS3."
...but can't I like the Wii regardless?
Mysterious Voice: "No. We've debated this before, it just isn't done."
But the PS3 has some shortcomings as well, such as the lack of backwards compatability, or the fact that a lot of it's big titles seem to be in genres YOU hate. What do you have to say to that, Voice?
Mysterious Voice: *gun fires* "This is not a discussion. It is a fact."
Wonder how it stacks up against PS3's Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust and 360's Yaris...
Stop hating on this game you fuckers
just because it hasn't got underage schoolgirls in it that you can rape
It's a got a fucking cat, cats are cool, everyone loves cat
I'd rather play this amazing looking game than some moeblob lolicon pandering schoolgirl rape/date simulator
cat for the win
I want my interactive snuff games using the Wii-mote...
Did the PS2 also have shitty games or not?
I can remember something like that, but playing with the true HD NextGen consoles is really eating away at my memory...
This game looks so bad that I need to own a copy today, np+5.
It looks silly enough to be popular to me.
I just feel bad for the cat, he looks like he's having fun but it's all a lie. I almost want to buy a copy out of pity... almost.
This is an epic get tons of trashed drunk friends and laugh at the stupidity game.
The so bad its good type.
that game looks awsome....dam wish i brought a wii
Is this one of those superior Japanese games the US will never see that fanboys are always talking about?
this is going to be a game that in 20 years you will see it on the back of gamepro saying that this game only sold 100 copies and is now worth $10,000 USD for collectors.
This game looks hilariously awesome! And the graphics/modeling/animation is pretty nice too!! WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO BUY THIS GAME?? especially for a console like the wii which doesn't even have any other good games, at least in the last six-twelve months
Uuuuuum...Muramasa? Another Code? A Boy and his Blob? Are these shitty games as well? Ooooooooh, excuuuuuuuuuse me, they're not Bayonetta or Tekken 6, myyyyyyyyyy bad!
and Tekken 6 isn't even that good...
Poor cat.
The shitty games dont surprise me.
This game getting a launch event however, makes me scratch my head.
LOL I might buy this just for the simple fact that it's going to be so unbelievably rare in five, ten years. Seriously just think about it; how many games are their from the NES, superNES, Genesis days that sell for hundreds sometimes thousands of dollars, but the games them selves are just complete shit.
WTF? well i guess if hitler can convince a nation into the holocaust, getting people to fund this actually sounds reasonable.
Best Game I evar played! This is the Halo/WoW Killer I tell you!
ROFLMAO :D I seriously laughed so hard at this. Man my stomach hurts :D
maybe Halo, but not WoW
It still can't beat E.T.
Keyboard Cat?
Sankaku Complex = Nintendo/Microsoft haters and Sony fanboys.
Am I wrong?
Not at all.
Does that mean you think this is a good game?
Ugh...
That's "E.T." level suckage...
no it isn't
E.T. was painful as a kid
this game is lulz worthy at least
A bleak look into the future after the Femi-Nazis have triumphed; banning all Hentai, violence, women and children from Video Games and Manga+Visual Novels, man has resorted to cats for all their Dating Sim and fapping needs.
Well if this game sells well it might as well be a game for people that like cats.They might as well make a Virtual Boyfriend Dating Sim for the Japanese ladys.
From what sankaku tells us that wouldn't be a difficult game. Just make sure the guy has a high income and dislikes anime and she'll be ready to bone("marry") him in seconds.
This game is far from shitty, because it has a point: A cat running a business.
Maybe whoever developed this game can dump all the unsold copies in a New Mexico landfill? That's what NBC is doing with their unsold copies of "30 Rock" on DVD...
HAHA when I saw the video of the cat playing
the piano I just though "Play him off, keyboard cat"
and got that song stuck in my head.
But honestly, I can't believe someone
actually thought of making such nonsense game.
RIP Keyboard Cat... :<
This game looks fucking awesome.
This can't be the worst game for the Wii... the videos are already more interesting than Tekken 6's Scenario Campaign mode.
indeed it is
I have no idea what is going on in the first video, but I could watch it all day...
I don't know, that cat looks pretty awesome.
I'm a fan of the Wii, but unfortunately the "wii games suck" stereotype is pretty accurate. Things are starting to improve a little bit now with stuff like Silent Hill,Crystal Chronicles, Red Steel 2 and several upcoming first party games, but I think for the most part the console's potential has been wasted.
Oh well, it was worth buying one just to play Mario Galaxy ^^
lol @ it being more noteworthy that the CEO was a woman, rather than a talking cat
oh, japan
Touhou + Cats?
I can't stop laughing... That game looks so amusing in a sad sort of way.
There's something weird on this...
That cat...
...
has...
...
...
...
...I want that game
God, I want this game.
I've only played Metroid Prime and Bros Brawl.
Everyone can understand how to play, and everyone has fun playing... My father, who hates video games as a way of spending time and money thinks that the wii is great, and was like a little boy playing it.. (he's 55). My mother even tried it out and enjoyed it. The wii, when used as its intended with you getting up and swinging the remote will give you a nice bit of exercise. in wii sports, (comes with the system), boxing tennis bowling and the various training and fitness tests that go along with the games can have you working up a sweat. zelda is great too, for the serious gamer. $250 is well worth the price, video games are fun again, and you can get everyone involved! http://astore.amazon.ca/wii-accessories04-20
I kind of feel sorry for the people who did the launch event. It must suck to be ignored when you're trying to earn your pay. >>
Considering the Wii mainly caters for casual players regardless of age, one might assume the game makers thought of targeting the infant demographic. Since babies can't buy their own games, their parents could. Sadly, it's the case of marketing EPIC FAIL in this one.
Perhaps the game would sell well in controversial detention centres and prisons. Ooh, I can imagine interrogators and torturers tormenting un-American-thinking subjects into submission and forced-confession from excessive exposure to cute little cats playing with their dangerously-obsessive feline-loving owners in various agonizing arm-swinging motion with the Wii-mote.
"NO~!!! ANYTHING BUT THAT! AAARRRGGGHHH..., GOD~!!! PLEASE KILL ME NOW~!!!"
I bet it would also indirectly help Mr. President "YES-WE-CAN" in his effort to finally bring curtains to the "skeleton in Uncle Sam's closet", pain-in-the-butt controversy some call "Guantamalela Bay".
BTW, did I hear someone say "E.T. [http://g4tv.com/videos/9439/et-on-the-atari-2600-review/]"?
i need to have that shit :D
Gonna buy
loled hard
maybe they didnt used midia too much...
How is this the worst game ever?/
IT HAS A KITTEH THAT IS ADORABLE HOW COULD YOUUU T.T
2 words-utter shit...