IGN: "Has Nintendo Cooked the Golden Goose?"

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chamelean75 on 08 May 2009

red steel 2 will move units IF IT LOOKS GOOD AND GETS GOOD REVIEWS.

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liquidninja on 08 May 2009

chamelean75 said:
red steel 2 will move units IF IT LOOKS GOOD AND GETS GOOD REVIEWS.

I doubt it. Red Steel 2 just doesn't look to have the makings of a system seller. Anyways reviews have never helped or hurt a game as far as I've seen.

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Derixs on 08 May 2009

LMAO at this entire thread. Like Nintendo won’t be able to do a price cut and sell a few more million consoles. Just think how many more people could afford this since we are in a recession if the console was only $149.99 or even $199.99. Use your brains IGN...

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But what if the software just isn't selling? Guitar Hero and Rock Band are responsible for one-half of all Wii software sales in the US.

What? That sounds like complete BS to me.

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liquidninja said:

chamelean75 said:
red steel 2 will move units IF IT LOOKS GOOD AND GETS GOOD REVIEWS.

I doubt it. Red Steel 2 just doesn't look to have the makings of a system seller. Anyways reviews have never helped or hurt a game as far as I've seen.

If it gets good marks in a preview by IGN or Gamespot, it'll definitely get more people interested. Though I wouldn't say that it would move hundreds of thousands to buy a Wii but it might push over those who are on the fence. Maybe add 5,000 at the most to the Wii total sales for the week.

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theRepublic said:

But what if the software just isn't selling? Guitar Hero and Rock Band are responsible for one-half of all Wii software sales in the US.

What? That sounds like complete BS to me.

Maybe VGChartz has undertracked them..........by about 50 MILLION.

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ctk495 on 08 May 2009

Lol back to the "wII is doomez" articles.Anyway I would not believe them until Nintendo´s E3 `press conference.

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theRepublic said:

But what if the software just isn't selling? Guitar Hero and Rock Band are responsible for one-half of all Wii software sales in the US.

What? That sounds like complete BS to me.

Of course it is unless you are looking at some extremely limited set of games.

If we look at 08's results, we can see that Ubisoft sold 27m units and they don't make any music games at all. I can pretty much gurantee that there weren't 27m guitar hero and rock band sales in 08 for Wii.

If we look at 09, we get the same thing. Ubisoft sold 8.7m games, and they don't make rock band or guitar hero.

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Arius Dion on 08 May 2009

They got balls writing shit like this a day after Nintendo posted great financials.

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