I'd like to see a Wii game with a BIG debut

[SaviorX]

Zucas said:

SaviorX said:

Voltaire said:
The Conduit and No More Heroes (i know its a while away) will have pretty big debuts. Like Zucas said, i think Red Steel 2 will be huge (even if it isnt very good).

however i dont think CoD5 will sell all that great its first week. Thats just me.

 

For some strange reason, I like the words No More Heroes and The Conduit in the same sentence.

Anyways, seeing as how worldwide week 1 sales for NMH were 72k, I think this time around it will be 120k.

Any bets? (Even besides NMH?)

 

I think we can say that No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle will have a lot better shot at stronger sales.  I think the first one provided somewhat of a cult hit that got the brand mainstream especially within the core of the Nintendo base.  It's a shame that it'll take so long to release as if it were to release in late 09 it could open with sales higher than the original did in its lifetime. 

But considering that's not the case and possibly some lost brand appeal til early 2010 and know holiday help, we are looking at a possibility of 200k-250k opening week if I were to take guesses now.  Majority being American where it opens to about 150k.  Thus 50k more in E/O and another varying number for Japan.  And if that were to case it could go on to sell around 600k-700k wiht about a million shipped considering the first one sold about 400k and shipped around 600k. 

As for the Conduit this game is just getting everything it needs.  It is Wii's "Gears of War" right now when it comes to defining the console and being the game everyone is looking at.  I'm glad Nintendo didn't release anything massive later this year and into early 09 because this game may have blocked some of that hype.  Right now as long as this title gets good advertising in the week it releases and a week before and after this title could open up with a million.  700k in America and 300k in Europe.  This is what its looking at about.  And probably end the year at about 2 million to 2.5 million.  Have no ideas about legs for this title on a Ninty console but it could catch on with the mainstream as do many shooters such as Resistance, Halo, and Gears of War.

And to compare Monster Hunter 3 will most likely open 50k-100k tops in E/O and America combined unless this is really pushed here.  But I'm thinking somehwere around 1 million to 1.5 million opening week in Japan.  I mean this game was so huge at TGS 08 that there isn't much stopping this from opening 1 million first week there.  and PSP has made this is into one of the largest franchises in Japan only behind DQ, FF, and Pokemon of course. 

 

Now of course for all 3 I'm more or less giving the highest tolerance of possibilities and not giving the range for the low but that's ok right haha.

NMH is coming in 09 by the way.