No it's not. Uncharted is a 1st party game that gets constantly advertised, got bundled, gets always named at PR statements and got a LOT more hype than Madworld around the web. Being a 1st party title almost always guarantees it's a huge seller.
Give me another example, you can't cause all the big HD sellers are huge projects. Wii hasn't seen one yet. It will see MH3 soon. At least Zelda, SMG, Brawl, Mario Kart, Metroid Prime sold really well. Even Red Steel being a new franchise sold more than a million and it's a FPS. Ubisoft and Nintendo hyped Red steel a lot.
The problem with the Wii is that it's getting ignored by most Western devs and what it actualy gets are multiplat games or spin-offs.
I've yet to see a huge AAA hyped game sell bad on the Wii. No, Madworld was too niche, snce it comes from a niche dev.
Give the Wii a GTA, a proper Resident Evil, a MGS game, a big fighter, a big racing game and it'll sell. IMO the problem is that many Wii owners already own an HD console, and seeing that 3rd parties are never gonna give the Wii a huge game, they won't bother anymore. All the big franchises are going to the HD consoles, so all the huge sales are there. Wii is getting innovative new games, but not the typical huge thing. They sell well, but they will never sell like a MEGA project sells on the HD's.
Wii will not get any big games this gen, save for the Nintendo ones, so you better not buy a Wii if this concerns you that much.
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