Well The Conduit is having a much large marketing campaign than that of Madworld and HotD: Overkill. Got prime spots in almost all large Nintendo events, continuous marketing on media sites, continuous marketing since March in Gamestops, and of course a lively commercial marketing a week before its release. It's pretty much been in gaming news solidly for a little over a year with few breaks.
But my issue, is how much of that will get to the mainstream. It's there for the loyal followers of the system and they will pick it up first week. But afterwards is where I'm skeptical. Could end up being like Madworld on a larger scale. But for what I can judge right now here are my predictions.
First Week: 150k-250k
End of Year: 600k-700k
Lifetime: 800k-1 million
I'm still kind of skeptical on this one but it has the potential because the marketing campaign has been very good. Even before Sega got tacked on, this has been very well marketed. Got to give kudos to HVS for that. And then kudos to Sega for picking it up and sticking with it and Nintendo for picking it up as a premiere Wii game. Let's hope it blows away my predictions and really takes off because of it.
