Why don't you people listen to me lol!??
2,500! Out of 80,000. I thought it was gonna do at least 20k first week, but this is just abominable. Now you really believe Wii sales will go up this week? I think they will keep going down. Sub 10k doesn't sound so bad now, right? In between MHG and WSR Wii will see it's worst weeks ever...
As I said before, Wii Sports craze is over there. Deca Sports 1 was lucky to sell like it did because Wii Sports was going on strong and Wii Fit was driving casual games up. Now that I think about it, Wii audience consists mainly in Wii Fit and Wii Sports buyers, along withNintendo owners and a very small, you could say niche, hardcore base. Now that the Wii Fit and Wii Sports craze are over there in Japan, even casual games will sell really bad. Casual Japanese gamers look like they are satisfied with 1 - 2 casual games. The core base buys core games, but seeing as they are too niche and spaced between them, and that the core base is too small, they sell bad as well.
Like Mr. Stickball said, releasing a Wii game in Japan is poison right now. Who would want to develop for the Wii after all these terrible performances. I can't wait for the following weeks. I was called a crazy man with my predictions, but they are turning out alright.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
