I don't think No More Heroes is niche. What would make it niche? It seems to have many of the same qualities that make for the reason that many people enjoy Tarantino films and GTA games, and Tarantino's aren't considered to be movies that have only niche appeal and GTA, for its part, is one of the best selling game series of all time. On the 360, with all the hype OXM can give and all the advertising that would have been done for NMH during key tv programs like Monday Night Raw if it was a 360 game, No More Heroes would have sold 4 or 5 millions copies instead of 500,000. It has it all a cool lead character a beautiful new heroine great action. It would have made for a big 360 game as I said. And when the PS3 has an install base half as large as the Wii's there's no reason Uncharted should do close to 3 million while NMH does 500,000. The only reason would be if the Wii's primary audience is made up of the types of people that Nintendo fans don't like for us to say that it is.
Same with Madworld and House of the Dead both would have been over a million on 360 while they're going to be lucky to get more than 500,000 in the next year on the Wii.
I can understand how Okami can be too artistic of a vision for its sales own good.
I hope the Conduit does some good numbers or it could be a long drought for us other types of gamers on Wii until Nintendo feels obligated to bring out the next Mario and Zelda.
I also hope many of the best jrpgs they are going to have come over here and don't get unnecessarily slammed by certain sites with a lot of weight behind their review numbers.
Heavens to Murgatoids.
