Comments on: SimCity Creator Trailer, Wiimote Excess

By: Jonah Falcon

Jonah Falcon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:25:00 +0000

How much did Boom Blox cost to make?

That’s the problem, Derrick. Boom Blox cost a small fortune to make. This was “Steven Spielberg’s Big Video Game!”

By: Derrick Schommer

Derrick Schommer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:47:03 +0000

How much did Boom Blox cost to make? 450k unit sold on a low budget game isn’t so bad, it can’t be *that* much money to create the game.

By that logic, GTA IV was an utter disaster.

By: Jonathon Howard

Jonathon Howard — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:23:11 +0000

Regardless if they’re playing it or not, little kids seems to be their target audience, o imagine the difficulty on this game is non-existant as well, just a fancy sandbox. EA isn’t makign this for you Jonah, and for all I know kids who have onyl ever played the Wii won’t have any problems with the control scheme, they dont know anything else….

By: Jonah Falcon

Jonah Falcon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:40:18 +0000

I’m sorry, Derrick. I’ve never used the mouse like that. Ever.

Boom Blox only sold 60,000 titles - then suddenly EA claimed that 450,000 units were sold - to retailers. Even if those were user sales, it’s still a disaster. Sort of why EA announced it would be going multiplatform, even though the game was basically made for the Wiimote.

By: Derrick Schommer

Derrick Schommer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:03:52 +0000

Boom Blox was a disaster? I thought it was doing good in sales.

Anyway, game looks nice. Jonah has been against the Wiimote months before the game, so I don’t really pay attention to all his “oh my god, way too much wii remote” whining
They’re using it like a mouse… much like the way I used to play it back on the PC in the 90’s. Nice.

By: Jonah Falcon

Jonah Falcon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:43:11 +0000

I don’t think they’re actually playing the game. LOL Besides, those are the kind of people who WON’T buy SimCity Creator. EA’ll end up with another Boom Blox disaster.

By: Jonathon Howard

Jonathon Howard — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:32:15 +0000

look at the folks playing this game Jonah, I don’t think they’re marketing the game to us… besides you heard how the CEO of EA is trying to let out a bunch of Wii games they want some of that money!