There are just too many other games that have the same or even greater mass market appeal and much better core gamer appeal and review scores. The game may even be scored highly and be really fun, but it's just not going to be able to compete on the Wii with the kind of games that will be out at the time.
Yeah, there are about 6 or 7 really big games on the system... But they can all sell 4 million! Go Wii!
The big ones...
Mario Galaxy
Smash
Metroid
MySims
RRR2
Guitar Hero 3
And in Japan...
We Love Golf
Wii Fit
It's a pretty packed lineup, yeah... In perfect conditions, all of these games would reach 1.5M... Is there anything else that could reach that number?
Edit: Of course there is.
Link's Crossbow Training
RE: UC
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
