Nutboy said:
After the first week of Wii Music in Americas, and the first 2 in Japan, Wii Music was gladly announced a flop by most on VGChartz, this includes myself.
Well, a few notes regarding that.
Wii Music (200K) is the 2nd best selling console music game in Japan, behind only Donkey Konga (460K). As far as I can see, no other console music game has beaten 50K this gen.
When a game in an incredibly niche genre sells over 200K in a single territory, can you really call it a flop?
In Others, Wii Music sold over 230K in two weeks, and had a 45% increase from week 1 to week 2. It looks pretty definate that it will break 1M in Pal. That would make it beat all other instrument games in PAL. If it beats 1.2M, it will be the 2nd best selling music game in PAL, behind the original Singstar (1.76M) only.
It is very likely that Wii Music will be the 2nd best selling music game in Others, and it has a decent change of becomming the best selling one. Hardly a flop.
But in the last area, Americas - where music games really sell, Wii Music appears to have done pretty bad. In its first 5 weeks, it sold 250K. It did see an increase in the 5th week though, which gives it hope.
Well, let's compare those 250K to what other Music titles did.
Guitar Hero 3 Ps3 sold 230K in 5 weeks, and ended with 1.2M in Americas.
Guitar Hero 1 on Ps2 sold 80K in 5 weeks, and ended with 1.57M in Americas.
Rock Band Wii sold a little less than 300K in 5 weeks, and looks like it should beat 1M in Americas.
So it looks pretty definte that it will sell at least 1M in Americas (we all know what Wii xxx titles are most known for), with the possibility of 2M.
That means it will probably sell a 3-4M WW, which is certainly not a flop, but rather one of the bigger succeses in this generation.
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In Japan, it bombed. If it can't outsell Donkey Konga for the Gamecube, despite a 2x higher install base, it's considered a bomb. Furthermore, there are other rhytm games out there such as the million-selling Rhytmn Tengoku that continues to sell northward of 20k a week....That's pretty good.
And Wii Music hasn't even sold it's first shipment in Japan. It still has 100,000 units sitting around after 5 weeks. That's horrible, given the fact that it's already selling below 10,000 a week.
Now, on the other hand, American and PAL sales seem to be doing very well. I'm still optimisitic that it can sell 3-4 million units between both territories.
Wii Music has been a mixed bag. I thought it'd beat out Animal Crossing for the Wii, but it looks like I may be wrong.
