so Medal of Honor Heroes 2 sold 500,000, why is it not tracked by the site!?
btw, it sold well!! : )

Chrizum, I think this is a really inaccurate way to estimate game sales. Consider the ratio of other games sold to amount of people online/online accounts on the Wii. It is no news that a wide majority of Wii owners don't really take their Wii online. Hell, Im an old school gamer and I'm one of those people. I don't care much for online gaming in such a genre. Since the game is new, it might simply be the fact that people are playing through the single player game. We will have to wait and see what the sales numbers say, but I think that its a lot better, and likely not a flop at all.

well i think that in general wii is a lot better at selling exclusive titles than multiplats

LOL

Not surprising; What else is new? heheh =)

I am going to ask a dumb question -- how do you find out how many people have accounts online on a game with the Wii?

Mike from Morgantown

Yeah, I had meant to mention controls.  I'm definately one of those oldschoolers who grew up with FPS on PC and can't stand to use the inferior dual analog, but CoDWaW is on PC for those purists - still a far superior offering than on Wii.  IF CoDWaW used the Wii-mote in more unique ways to make the Wii version stand out on it's own, then it might be a different story.    Red Steel 2 has a real chance there if they can make it the game we thought the original was going to be.  And definately, must have split-screen online multiplayer is Ubisoft knows what's good for it.

To the wii owners with this game, can you see how many users are on the leaderboards? If you can't, could you make another account and just get 1kill to see how many users are playing, then check it each day to see how many more users are coming online. This should give you a pretty decent estimate of how many players have bought the game, and if its legs are staying the same or decreasing.

I think the problem is that after this very luckluster year, a lot of core gamers who only owned the Wii probably bought a secondary console where there was at least something to play on. So obviously, multi-console owners, why would they buy a weaker version of the game? The will go for the better version and that's not the Wii version. Save for a few minority of hardcore Wii only owners, the Wii only owners are either casual or Nintendo fans. I just can't imagine a lot of hardcore gamers owning only the Wii after this year. Multiplat games will always perform poor on the Wii, that's what's going on.

Sales of this game will be attributed mainly to new Wii owners or that small hardcore minority. I can't see this game selling at all, it even bombed disastrously in the UK.

I remember hearing 40% bandied about as the percentage of Wiis which are actually connected to the internet. Then you can add in the fact that some people will play the campaign before they go online, while others might only play the campaign and hate online multiplayer, etc.

Furthermore, almost no Wii game has explosive launch sales. A game which saw more preview videos released on Youtube than on Gametrailers certainly isn't going to jump out of the gates. I know we want to be able to compare 1st week Wii game sales with 1st week HD console game sales, but the patterns are dramatically and consistently different. We see it time and time again: You just can't judge the performance of a Wii game by 1st week sales.