famousringo said:
Inigo13 said:
silentmac said:
famousringo said:
I realize that I'm really late to the party, but here's a list of third party million-sellers that had a larger NA launch week than The Conduit:
Red Steel
Guitar Hero 3
Guitar Hero: WT
Rock Band
Star Wars: TFU
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
EA Sports Active
There are 27 third party games which have sold a million copies with a smaller NA first week than The Conduit. |
Except for Red Steel and arguably Star Wars: TFU, none of those are core titles. Red Steel was a launch title and Star Wars has the Star Wars name behind it...
Also Red Steel and EA Sports active are the only new IPs, and EA Sports active is catering to the starved Wii balance board crowd. I mean Wii Fit was lacking in many ways for an exercise game and most of the others in that genre interactive video shovelware.
Basically, I don't get your point in comparing it to these titles?
It should be compared to:
Metroid Prime 3
Medal of Honor: Heroes 2
Call of Duty: World at War Wii
and HD titles like
Perfect Dark Zero
Killzone 2 etc.
which still isn't fair because Killzone 2 is a PS3 showpiece title and the rest aren't new IPs...
I think Halo should be totally left out of the discussion because nothing even compares to it in sales.
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I'm pretty sure his point was that only 7 third party Wii games opened higher than The Conduit, and The Conduit opened larger than 27 third party, million selling Wii games.
Basically, any Wii third party game that opened as big as The Conduit has gotten over 1 million in sales.
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I was just presenting raw information, really, not trying to prove a specific point. But that's more or less the conclusion I would draw from that information.
After a little digging, I did find one third party title that launched over 100k in NA and didn't sell a million: Madden 09. It's a somewhat unique in that it has almost no appeal outside of NA. If The Conduit sells proportional to Madden 09 in NA, EU sales should push it over the million bar.
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Sorry, I didn't realize that was ALL of the third party titles that started higher than The Conduit. I was puzzled as to why you would compare TCon's sales to such a menagerie of games... I see your point now though...
