WarioWare is an awesome game... It lasts a long time when you have someone else in the house to compete with for high scores in the mini-games... And it takes a little while to unlock all the mini-games too... Its looking like WarioWare Wii become the best-selling WarioWare yet, WW... 3 million possible, lifetime? It was outsold by Zelda though, so there's still a lot of the existing Nintendo audience propelling Wii... Combined Zelda sales have a chance to make it the most popular Zelda ever... Its halfway there already... But yeah... Sonic bombed... Not just because its a "gamers game", but because it was hyped, and then got mediocre reviews... Gamers games live and die by reviews... It barely outsold Rayman... Which reminds me, Rayman is doing absolutely amazing... 90K January, 60K Feb... Given the one less week, thats less than a 20% decline... Its at 375K NA, and should cruise to 1mil WW. I expect Tiger Woods to do incredibly well... How can it not? Wii Sports and Wii Play are clearly becoming the main killer apps for the system even in the West, and TW could hit a wide part of that audience... An audience who won't read the mediocre reviews, BTW...
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
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