Punch Out bombed badly as expected. It was fairly obvious it was going to bomb badly, more so after the Famitsu review. The Source listed Punch Out as a game that was going to help Wii, but it was obvious it wouldn't at all, since most of the Wii games have bombed recently and no one was anticipating it.
Dragon Ball also bombed, and also got a bad review. Anyways, Wii seems about dead regarding new games that aren't big sequels. No one is buying anything... With a userbase of more than 8 million, a 5k debut is atrocious. Next bomb is Ju-On, MH3 will sell decently but the boost will be unperdictable. Other games for other platforms doing badly too, but the Wii bombs are something that just keep on happening week after week.
I hope this ends with the release of MH3. And talking about MH3, the Black Wii bundles are in small limited quantities, they are not a permanent bundle, so the boost will be as big as the supplies, until they run out. Perhaps the game itself will lift sales a bit, but the bundle, once it's over... it's over.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
