Honestly as was said by SnesBoy 8-million GameCube owners have Melee a number that rivals if not defeats Halo2 which was the most succesful Halo game. Now that being said some are challenging the fact that day one selling power might be weaker then Halo3, I doubt it.
Many people like myself bought a Wii knowing SmashBros:Brawl was on its way. Many many SmashBros fans will purchase Wii's just for SmashBros and were talking massive market appeal due to the inclusion of so many characters. I think Sonic and Snake will also boost its sales abilities.
Now some people said Nintendo doesn't have the ability to pump out as many disks as Microsoft or to fund the same height of ad campaign. That is false Microsoft has been loosing crap loads of money on the 360 and its games. Thus meaning a smaller budget. In all Microsoft concentrated a large amount of its yearly ad budget to place Halo ads out their. However Nintendo has turned profits on everything they have made they have a much broader bracket for advertising.
As for manufacturing your correct. I don't know about right now but up untill now Nintendo has been the only manufacturer of its disk formats. So Nintendo has to use its manufacturing facilities to create both third party and first party software giving it a far smaller manufacturing ability.
Lastly confidence Nintendo never expects huge sales or so they say. The whole "It did far better then expected" is key to their marketing strategy. Nintend doesn't dissapoint because they avoid biting off more then they can chew.
Heres hoping Nintendo puts its nose to the grindstone and pushes sales of its game day one!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
