Australia-wide success; international potential

[Alan Shore]

As you may know, I live in Traralgon, which is a regional centre in Victoria. In the past few days, I've been hunting for some copies of RL to give as presents for Christmas. I've been to Target, Big W, EB, K-Mart and Games Wizards. The only one of those stores with a copy left was Games Wizards, and it was their last one! The GW manager was talking to me, and he told me that alot of Victorian stores in their chain at least were getting calls from Sydney demanding their copies, but most Victorian stores rejected because they were selling quick down here too!

Now that brings me to my point: RL must be used as a promotional tool in WA, SA, VIC, TAS & NT, and should as an experiment export some copies to the US and see what happens. The profit for Sidhe would already be quite significant and it wouldn't hurt the bottom line to promote the game a bit in those areas, plus it would open up more markets for them and could develop into a rather significant games company on the world stage.

 

[ghoti]

I agree with you there Tamazoid, but the SIDHE team would have to translate the entire code into NTSC format and produce it which would detract from time and resources which they'd probably prefer to use on the next version of the game.

 

[HBG]

I agree with you there Tamazoid, but the SIDHE team would have to translate the entire code into NTSC format and produce it which would detract from time and resources which they'd probably prefer to use on the next version of the game.

I thought they used Secam in Vic?

 

[hgfds]

How long is the sidhe agreement for the game,would ea sports take league on after this they would distribute it internationally surely.

 

[Mario]

Um, Rugby League is already available internationally - Australia, NZ, and Europe...

 

[eastsrule]

How long is the sidhe agreement for the game,would ea sports take league on after this they would distribute it internationally surely.

You have no idea mate.

First of all, it is HES who own the rights and they pay SIDHE to make the game.

TruBlu (Basically HES) distributes the game and is incharge of everying bar the actual creating of the software.

EA are similar to HES, they are a publisher/distributor. They do make games (good ones at that) for games that would sell. Fifa and Madden are prime examples.

A League game would not sell well at all, and would simply be a waste of time when someone in the USA could purchase it through the internet on PC.

EA Sports would not make a League game themselves, because for them, they would just come up with a loss. The Rugby League game was made on a small budget, this is SIDHE's first big title. And look at it.

It beats Rugby 2004, which had a larger budget. Forgetting its bugs, anyone who says this game isn't fun should get whatever is stuck up their ass and take it out.

SIDHE have created a highly enjoyable game, and I, like many, will absolutely love Mario and his men to make a sequel.

 

[In-goal]

Why did EA make an AFL game? surely there sales weren't all that flattering

 

[eastsrule]

They did ages ago, now Acclaim have the rights to AFL games. Outside of Melbourne, that game would not sell anything lol.

 

[SP]

Is the game sold in spain or something

because in the booklet it has

Australia, NZ, Uk, France, Ireland and Espana (Spain) for the customer service numbers

 

[chemicalbrother]

As you may know, I live in Traralgon, which is a regional centre in Victoria. In the past few days, I've been hunting for some copies of RL to give as presents for Christmas. I've been to Target, Big W, EB, K-Mart and Games Wizards. The only one of those stores with a copy left was Games Wizards, and it was their last one! The GW manager was talking to me, and he told me that alot of Victorian stores in their chain at least were getting calls from Sydney demanding their copies, but most Victorian stores rejected because they were selling quick down here too!

Now that brings me to my point: RL must be used as a promotional tool in WA, SA, VIC, TAS & NT, and should as an experiment export some copies to the US and see what happens. The profit for Sidhe would already be quite significant and it wouldn't hurt the bottom line to promote the game a bit in those areas, plus it would open up more markets for them and could develop into a rather significant games company on the world stage.

It was huge down in the Suburbs of Melbourne. 1 copy left at EB at Dandenong and i went to chadstone and Gamewinners was Sold out.

And they sold like "hot cakes" and they knock the Northern States back because they were selling well

 

[Alan Shore]

I didn't mean for X-Box and PS2 versions be exported to NTSC markets. Just the PC version, and the sequel should be massively promoted in new markets. Imagine if we could sell it in India, China or the US?

 

[..::ERIC::..]

Imagine if we could sell it in India, China or the US?

We? I didn't realise we sold the game...

 

[Marduk]

I think you know what he's talking about. :roll:

 

[Once Dead]

Imagine if we could sell it in India, China or the US?

We? I didn't realise we sold the game...

Wasn't that the notion of Super League?
Well done Reebs

 

[KimmorleyKiller]

aww geez not the superleague war AGAIN???????