I'm wondering how successful the game will be worldwide?
It is said that original game sold 8 million copies worldwide, VGC has it at over 9 million (probably includes bundled copies). At this point everything that I've seen is very very much appealing to me (though I'm likely not the best representation of target group, I never played DKC game before), it reminds me of fun of NSMBW, supports simplistic way of input by holding Wii Remote sideways, and the most important feature - coop multiplayer in vein of NSMBW, but looks like less chaotic due to less people involved in gameplay and one thing that differs it from Mario game - two players controlling Donkey and Diddy have own highs and lows which will effect gameplay greatly.
More importantly though will Nintendo market the game heavily? And if they do, what kind of marketing this will be? Looking at original game, seems it won't fit for family-friendly ads, more likely it's best advertised to teenagers (besides long-time fans, of course, but I'm speaking about new audiences here). Well, it's unknown at this point whether they'll market it at all.
Though it's pretty much granted that Wii won't have this holiday season as stellar as previous was (since it really climbed high in December 2009), but could it be the hit title that will repeat (or maybe surprass) success of original game and drive Wii sales up?
