I dont think the Conduit sales were that bad. But it's all about expectations. From all the forums I had been reading, people were expecting it to sell extremely little. Maybe this forum was different, but those were my expectations. So it didn't do too bad versus my expectations.
Look at a game like Crysis, sold 30k or something like that in it's first NPD. Yet in the end Crytek said it sold 1.5 million copies, and apparantely crytek is well off financially (Crysis is their main game) as they've been buying other studios. I mean you have to include Europe and all that. First month sales of 70k might mean Conduit might sell a quarter million in USA, and I'd guess 1 m? WW? I could be wrong.
In no way am I calling it a smash, but again, I was expecting sales of 20k or something. So I think these sales are average.
But on a larger scale, heres why FPS and hardcore games wont sell on Wii..pay close attention here: EVERYBODY WHO LIKES COMPLEX GRAPHICALLY RICH FPS, WILL ALMOST BY DEFINITION OWN A PS3 OR 360. PERIOD. THERE IS THEREFORE ALMOST NO MARKET FOR FPS ON WII, AND THERE LIKELY NEVER WILL BE!
I mean ask yourself, if you're the young male demo, and you like FPS, WHY ON EARTH would you own a WII and not a 360/PS3? Answer: You wouldn't. Why would you be waiting for the crumbs of Conduit, when you could play far more graphically impressive and adult games like Halo 3, COD4, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, Gears of War 2, Battlefield 1943, and too many more great FPS to count on 360 or PS3?
Sure there are a few people who are "hardcore" males who might by chance or choice or not having a choice (say they have no income, and their parents bought them a Wii) ONLY own a Wii, but they will always be very small minority.
