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NPD Sales Results for February 2009
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Canadian NPD?
I'm pretty sure red steel passed 1million quite quickly. It was a launch title with a fair bit of hype, a lot of people picked it upAlcibiades said:
eagerly awaiting the second one
edit: http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/783/783826p1.html was at 950,000 2 years ago
Alcibiades
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oh I had no doubt it had probably passed that worldwide... the article (and posts discussing it) are referring to US-only numbers though...santouras said:
Aaron Strife
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For some reason I'm curious as to what the nine first party million sellers are.
Wii Play
Twilight Princess
Mario Galaxy
Brawl
Mario Kart
Wii Fit
Mario Party 8
Super Paper Mario?
Link's Crossbow?
Animal Crossing?
Also I think there are more than 7 million selling third party Wii games in the US.
Wii Play
Twilight Princess
Mario Galaxy
Brawl
Mario Kart
Wii Fit
Mario Party 8
Super Paper Mario?
Link's Crossbow?
Animal Crossing?
Also I think there are more than 7 million selling third party Wii games in the US.
I think there should be a thread where we try and predict the next third party Wii million sellers. Well, I'll start here for now:
Likely Million Seller Candidates -
Guitar Hero: Metallica (I already noticed on Sunday that tons of Wii copies were being sold and afterall the brand is strongest on Wii.
EA Sports Active, Tiger Woods , Grand Slam Tennis EA Sports Active is already a Wii top seller at GameStop's website and it looks like a great follow-up and alternative to Wii Fit. EA is most likely to going to market the shit out of it along with its Motion + software, and if EA releases the Motion+ bundle for Grand Slam or Tiger in NA, as they are in the UK, then I expect those games to sell well from the get go, maybe even frontloaded, as opposed to selling well over the course of time.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince I'm honestly expecting to this game being huge on the Wii. Comparitively selling much better than other versions. The Wii's install base is huge and I'm sure there's a good chunk of the Harry Potter demographic that own it and will pick the game up.
Mario & Sonic: Winter GamesOkay, it's currently slated for December at GameStop's site but we all know it's going to be huge, probably even bigger than the Summer Olympics games due to the increase in the console's install base and the crossover brand becoming stronger.
Likely Million Seller Candidates -
Guitar Hero: Metallica (I already noticed on Sunday that tons of Wii copies were being sold and afterall the brand is strongest on Wii.
EA Sports Active, Tiger Woods , Grand Slam Tennis EA Sports Active is already a Wii top seller at GameStop's website and it looks like a great follow-up and alternative to Wii Fit. EA is most likely to going to market the shit out of it along with its Motion + software, and if EA releases the Motion+ bundle for Grand Slam or Tiger in NA, as they are in the UK, then I expect those games to sell well from the get go, maybe even frontloaded, as opposed to selling well over the course of time.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince I'm honestly expecting to this game being huge on the Wii. Comparitively selling much better than other versions. The Wii's install base is huge and I'm sure there's a good chunk of the Harry Potter demographic that own it and will pick the game up.
Mario & Sonic: Winter GamesOkay, it's currently slated for December at GameStop's site but we all know it's going to be huge, probably even bigger than the Summer Olympics games due to the increase in the console's install base and the crossover brand becoming stronger.
Alcibiades
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I will LOL if people attribute to soccer moms, elderly and kiddies the success of the Wii version (supposing it eventually sells the best of the 3 versions)... aren't the 18-35 yr. old "core gamer" males that would be into Metallica a larger demographic on the 360/PS3?VerTiGo said:
Vast Inspiration
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Rikyfree said:
Do you know what "a blockbuster game" means? If its not selling as well, then they don't have that kind of game.
And believe me, despite the outpouring of love because of its graphical prowess, it doesn't hold a candle to Halo's longevity.
This should be good.pakkit said:
GH:M will likely have depressed sales across the board due to genre fatigue, perceived difficulty, and the simple fact that metal is far less popular than... pop(ular) music, which GHWT and (to a lesser extent) GH3 had lots of. Also, the commercial will make the Blue Ocean feel old and unhappy when they see how Lars and Kirk look (Kirk looks like he's morphing into Carlos Santana).
I think a part of what makes the guitar games so successful on the Wii is that they come with their own controllers.Alcibiades said:
I know Wii-only guys don't like to hear it, but I think most who'd be interested in Wii core games have come to avoid them because of well-established control problems. I.e. you tell me that I have to shake my controller to attack, done, all excitement destroyed; it doesn't even matter anymore how awesome your game looks.
This is one of the reasons why I expect The Conduit to pull much bigger numbers than Madworld (3x first month was my prediction). It's in a genre that works great on the Wii and actually benefits from the controller.
I also expect Oboromuramasa to turn out more successful than Madworld, if we ever get sales numbers for either. Classic controller support ftw.
JoshuaJSlone
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My guess was that he was banned until the release of Duke Nukem Forever, which the mod figured would surely be out within 4 years.
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bcn-ron said:
nice try but not really...
music games are successful on wii for two reasons:
1. broad appealing
2. fun to play with other people
lowlylowlycook
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donny2112 said:
That's 5 weeks. If the Wii can keep up the same weekly sales that should mean over 940k for the Wii, correct?
Is it too early to start a 1M Wii sales hype train?