I want people to consider this from outside of the "Hardcore" and "Casual" debate and to start to ask whether this was enough of a "Mainstream Game" to justify particularly strong sales ...
As much as the Wii has seen some massive success from unconventional games, much like the PS3 and XBox 360, the bread and butter of the Wii’s game sales come from games that are extremely mainstream in nature. Nintendo releases games in established, well known, franchises with their conventional game-play (with "Twist"/enhancement provided by the Wiimote) and achieves massive success. Third party publishers understand this formula and successfully implement it on the HD consoles (with the "Twist"/enhancement comming from greater processing power) and achieve massive success but (moronically) refuse to even attempt it on the Wii.
Being that the sales of Dead Space Extraction put it in a similar category to Ninja Bread Man, I don't think "Flop" is as appropriate as saying that Wii owners rejected Dead Space Extraction on principle; perhaps EA should have listened to Wii owners when they said they didn't want an on rails Dead Space months ago ...
