Reggie: Modern Warfare 2 may have trouble maintaining sales while NSMB Wii will sell consistently

[Joelcool7]

mushroomboy5 said:

BladeOfGod said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Ail said:
Less than a week after making a prediction he's already trying to back out of it......

I don't see any backing out, just him saying what we all know to be true, even the blindest HD fan knows that Mario will have far greater legs than MW2

Yes, just like Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario 64, oh wait...

????is this some kind of joke??? Not sure if I understand your remark???The games you mentioned all sold well...even Sunshine which was on a failed platform...

He's saying that the past few Mario games have not had the legs to compete with the likes of ModernWarFare2 and he's right.  Sure Sunshine sold fairly well for being on the failed platform but what excuse does Galaxy have? On a monthly basis Galaxy and COD4:ModernWarFare are selling similiar quantities.

What makes you so sure that NSMBW will perform better then any of Mario's other home console titles. Don't even bother bringing up NewSuperMarioBros:DS because we all know the DS has double the user base that Wii has. So halve the sales of NewSuperMarioBros and you have a good picture of what to expect from NSMBW. That is about 10-13-million in lifetime sales.

Will NewSuperMarioBros really keep selling after Galaxy2 and the new Zelda come out next year? Nintendo's titles have traditionally had legs but this generation look at their legs compared to other huge system sellers like Halo3 or ModernWarFare1. Those titles are still selling over 30K a week last I heard. That is just as good as Mario:Galaxy if not in some cases better.

Why does everyone think that Nintendo's Wii has such good legs compaired to system sellers on the other platforms?