Well, people don't buy grafix intensive games like Call of Dutty for the Wii. And for good reason. For those games they get a HD console, such as the X360 60Gb for €250.

I figured the PS3 and 360 sales would be horrible due to CoD4 still being new basically.

In anecdote, most people who I see commenting about CoD5 seem to have this anti-WW2 thing going on.

I think the game sold much more than 60.000 worldwide. Wii gamers are probably not the typical online gamers. I'd put the amount of gamers that makes an online acount in the first 3 days at around 1 in 5, which would mean closer to 100.000 first week, which is fine. Wii games have longer legs and I'm sure this game will reach 500k over the holidays.

This is an interesting post. You say 1 in 5 WaW owners are avid online players, correct? I'm thinking it's closer to 1 in 3, but it will be interesting to see how much the game will sell in its first 2 weeks (I myself am doubting it will break 100k even in 2 weeks).

Well, it's not like hardcore online gamers would buy this for Wii...Single player would for most people be the first station. Hell, I had to take a few days before I started Mario Kart online.
Plus I don't know how the online system works for this game. You might even only see the acounts of a certain region.

CoD 3 sold more on Wii then on PS3, and while I don't expect that to happen CoD:WaW will definitely do well. It will certainly sell more then CoD 3, which was a crappy game.

I played people from both the US and UK, and I'm from the Netherlands, so the online is region free.

I hope it really sold better than my prediction, World at War is the best shooter on the Wii with amazing online multiplayer and an intense single player. It at least needs to outsell Call of Duty 3 which sold about 750k.

That was because you were spamming. But ok, to answer your question, I didn't guesstimate the amount of online accounts like you did with rankings, because you can view the top and bottom ranks of the world. I only guesstimated the amount people that bought the game but didn't go online yet.

Concering Trauma Center, it's obvious that uploading your score isn't as big a part of the game as is the multiplayer in Call of Duty. The target audience of Call of Duty are young male gamers who want to pwn people online (), whereas the target audience of Trauma Centre is everybody (it's a pretty mainstream game, I think).

I haven't played Trauma Centre so I can't really eleborate any more on the subject.

Who cares anyway? CoD World at War is by far the weakest in the series imo, even worse than CoD 3. I had hoped, after playing it, that it'd flop on all platforms so the dev's would be forced to get their act together for CoD 5.
There's a whole list of grievances I could make (and I will if anyone wants me to).

Maybe it's just me, but I would find it to be pretty damning of the Wii as a console that can move good 3rd party games if it can't even move 1/10th of the units the X360/PS3 will sell on Week-1.

Even if it's a bad Call of Duty (of course, it's Tetryarch so it's expected), it's still a Call of Duty game. That's like expecting Final Fantasy XIII to bomb on the Wii if it was a day & date launch with the other versions, but a bad FF game overall.

*If* the Wii version cannot manage to sell within 50% of the Playstation 3 version, I will gladly put in my sig that the Wii cannot sell 3rd party games to a 'core' audience.

CoD not a hardcore title?

We all know that first-day and week sales will be the highest for the system.  It is not an evergreen title that will continue selling for eons.  CoD4 was the exception, not the rule.