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

[Avinash_Tyagi]

CAL4M1TY said:

mike_intellivision said:
Halo 3 sold 57.2% of its its total sales in the Americas in the first 10 weeks while CoD 4: MW on the Xbox 360 sold 52.7% of its total sales in the Americas in the first 10 weeks.

Meanwhile, Mario Kart Wii sold just 31.5% of its total sales in the Americas in the first 10 weeks.

At 10 weeks, CoD 4: MW had sold more than MKWii. But lifetime, the kart racer sold more.

January 2011, maybe. January 2010, doubtful.

Mike from Morgantown

I would have disagreed with that because of the fact that Mario Kart and Super Mario Bros are two very different genre's and therefore they aren't a good representative of one another.

But I agree NSMBWii has a good shot at outselling MW2 in their lifetimes because the legs of MW2 will be cut once Treyarchs CoD game gets released next year and will disappear almost entirely once MW3 is released (which I'm guessing is november 2011). So unless MW2 can make up NSMBWii potential lifetime sales in 1.5 years, I'm not sure it'll be able to hold off Mario.

Also, that is based on my guess that there won't be another NSMB on the Wii.

  Different genres yes, but I still see NSMB DS haunting the top 50 weekly worldwide charts more than three years after its launch