Lousy retail support is a major issue for a lot of Wii games. Wii owners aren't much for pre-ordering, which is the main factor retailers use to decide how much stock to order. The result is a launch month shortage of a particular game, and customers either buy something else (contributing to the long tail of other games) or go home frustrated.
It was certainly a factor in WaW's slow launch on the Wii, and has quite possibly reduced the lifetime sales of that game (imagine customers who can't find WaW grabbing CoD3 instead...).
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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