Oh Reggie... to the general public yes this is going to end up being true. But you know and I know that anything that has a big first week will have "trouble" maintaining sales... at least percentage wise haha.
Essentially a statement he knows he can say without any repercussion. It would be like saying the same thing about Dragon Quest IX in Japan.
I don't think he is backing out on his statement but simply trying to put more press and more hype for NSMB Wii. I mean I don't think there are too many that disagree that NSMB Wii will sell lots over a long period of time. But I also wouldn't be surprised if Modern Warfare 2 will do the same. I also don't think we should disregard Mario of having a big opener. Most estimates from here and from VGC are putting an American opener of about a million and at least another million first week across the world. That's quite a big opener.
I still don't think New Super Mario Bros Wii will be able to beat out MW2 on 360 but I do think both titles will flourish this holiday season with massive sales (Ps3 version as well) and along with other big titles this will be quite a large software holiday season pushing hardware as it progresses. That I can be sure of.
