Rygar - Miss, bad reviews
Tenchu 4 - Hit, long legs, good reviews (judging by the 1st)
Dead Rising: Chop 'til You Drop - Miss, maybe long legs though, bad publicity lately online
House of the Dead: Overkill - Hit, guess good reviews, ads should get this moving fast
MadWorld - Hit, long legs though, Ads / Publicity will generate better than expected
Deadly Creatures - Hit, comparitive to cost i think so, THQ level ad blitz will push it over 400k
The Conduit - Hit, online buzz, publicity and reviews boost, etc, legs as usual with enough cores picking it up in the first 3 months
Sin & Punishment 2 - Hit, its Nintendo, legs probably, too early to call
Little King Story - long legs dk
I think Sega will advertise their games to hell and back and it will help them significantly. Theyre already pushing HOTD, Conduit and MW heavily.
Cores, dual system owners especially, are probably going to talk shit for a while but will ultimately land on MW, HOTD or T4 maybe.
Conduit, though appealing will be affected by online chatter about some small insignificant aspect of the game, but most likely graphics, and therefore not be a 400k opening ww.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
