It's absolutely ridiculous to call a game a failure commercially or sales wise just because it didn't sell a million right out of the gate. The game will sell at least a couple million copies and maybe quite a bit more. Lets at least wait until after the holidays to see how it does then. I'm pretty sure that it will be a big holiday game.
I don't see the point of ripping Nintendo and so many saying that Nintendo isn't giving us the big games. It hasn't been out two full years yet and already we've seen games from some of their biggest franchises such as Zelda, Mario, Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, Warioware, Wario, Metroid with Animal Crossing coming out in less than two weeks and Pikmin 3 announced. The system has at least another three or four years still and we'll see many other big Nintendo franchises and probably a few sequels to the franchises that have come out.
It's the 3rd party that has left us disappointed thus far but I see that changing dramatically in 2009 and after.
I'll come up with something better eventually...
