Sega has created 2 of the best mature games released for Wii, House of the Dead: Overkill and Madworld, but it was EA's Dead Space sales figures that broke the deal for them: no more mature titles for Wii.
"Look at Dead Space. We were stunned. That was my litmus test," studio director Constantine Hantzopoulos said. "Basically, it's like, okay, you got EA, who can put all the marketing muscle behind this, an established franchise that scored quite well on 360 and PS3. They should be able to actually hit this out of the park, right? We get numbers, real numbers aside from NPD, and I'm like, 'Woah.'"
"That begs the question, are we going to do more mature titles for the Wii? And it's like, probably not."
But that doesn't mean that House of the Dead: Overkill and Madworld sold poorly. According to Hantzopoulos, "they're both doing okay and at the end of the day we'll make our numbers, that's good. Conduit's done quite well for us. It's been slow burn. That's the other thing you find out about the Wii. It's not necessarily first 3 weeks like most titles."
