| Kantor said: If you had looked at the game before linking to it, you would have noticed that those were only Japan sales. America and Others are both at 0.00 million with no weekly data. Meanwhile, MadWorld isn't even confirmed for a Japanese release. |
True, and for that I apologize (I thought it seemed too low, about half of what I'd heard earlier. Now I know why). But the folks at GAF (some of whom have access to the full NPD data...) also routinely refer to it as a bomb, so don't believe for a second that it did much better out West.
If you can find even one credible source that implies that God Hand did great good decent at retail, I'll cheerfully concede this issue.
I don't anticipate making a concession speech anytime soon.
As for No More Heroes...wow. It clearly wasn't a very big budget game if they threw a party with cake because it sold 400k...
Welcome to gets-it-ville. I hope you stay for a while. You see, hitherto traditional Wii games haven't really been big-budget affairs, so studios can do quite well for themselves on a few hundred thousand sales.
Well, if they're happy with it, who are we to proclaim it a flop? Although the term "flop" is used pretty loosely; it's even used to describe new 2D IPs involving playing as a doll and jumping around, which become double million sellers within four months of release!
"Flop" isn't the right word to describe LittleBigPlanet. But it did underperform, relative to Sony's own expectations for the title. Don't feel too bad though: Wii Music is in the exact same boat.
