How well do the Conduit and Madworld have to do to send a message?

[Mummelmann]

Voltaire said:

Mummelmann said:
With the massive install base, anything below 1.5 million lifetime would be a massive failure imo, especially when you see the rate at which Ninty's own titles are flying off the shelves. Wii owners certainly buy games, as is apparent from the software charts, but it remains to be seen if they really appreciate 3rd party "core" efforts.

 

 This post was a massive failure imo. Since when does console install base= software sold. Thats like saying Halo 3 was a massive failure imo because it didnt sell 25mil.

 

I think most people would agree that The Conduit would do a good 1-2 mil, with Madworld being hard to tell, roughly 500K-800K.

 

What a strange response. It isn't the same at all, can you really argue that Halo 3 with 9 million + on a 28 million install base is not a huge success over 1 million on 50 million users? And, like I said, with 1st party titles breaking records right and left, it'd be all the more telling if the 3rd party efforts such as these two titles didn't sell well (well over 1 million). I never stated that they needed 50 million sales on 50 million users, that was your (puzzling) logic and idea. And of course install base matters on software sales, do you think Wii Sports would be at 43 million sold if there were only half as many Wii's? The many 5 million sellers on PS2 weren't/aren't due to just massive quality either, install base matters, and if you don't understand that you can't have any grasp on the nature of how bussiness works at all.

I do find comic relief in the fact that you singled out my post as a failure though, if I didn't know any better, I'd say it was almost personal.