CoDWaW Wii selling better than we think?

[johnsobas]

DKII said:
Anecdotes are beyond useless, marketing gets consumers to buy games and not retailers, and NPD is a lot more right than you think. Again, stop selectively doubting numbers that don't fit in with what you want to happen. Wait for financial reports if you like, but quit making threads about how this site must be wrong 'cause your local area is sold out of a game that isn't ordering new copies because it didn't sell that well to begin with and there's dozens of other Wii games they'd rather stock instead.

the fact that they didn't advertise the wii version alone at first then started to put out tons of adverts isn't anecdotal, and yea it's possible they started doing it in spite of retailers refusal to buy it, but i think it makes much  more sense that retailers started ordering more copies and that resulted in more commercials.  Why advertise a game that retailers aren't ordering?

Seems like a reasonable reason to bring some doubt into the equation.  I'm not saying the numbers are wrong, i'm saying it's sound reasoning.