I actually saw lots of ads for this, however they were all on Hulu. The ads did not make me want to buy this game.
I don't know why anybody is suprised with these numbers, the game seemed doomed from the start. It is an on rails shooter-- the Wii has tons of these and most of them, shall we say, didn't deliver. I would be willing to bet that many individuals picked up an on rails shooter, it sucked, and that soured the user on the genre. Second, the 'core' audience does not want a dead space on rails shooter-- they want an actual Dead Space game. As for the family crowd (which I would bet is a good number of Wii owners), I don't think Dead Space is a game that screams fun for the whole family ("Mom, you just blew the creatures head off! Awsome!").
Basicly, the 'core' group won't buy it, the family crowd won't buy it, and anybody else interested in the genre has been burned by a bad game in this genere before.
Don't get me wrong, from the reviews Dead Space: Extraction seems to be a well made game, but it appears the makers (and this applies to almost every game maker on the Wii) that the Wii owners need 'dumbed-down' games and Wii owners can't handle the 'real' games.
