Could have MW2 sold so much without its $150m marketing campaign

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Avinash_Tyagi said:

kingofwale said:

Boneitis said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
Who cares if it sells that first week or over 100 weeks? Many Wii and DS games sell for years with huge tails and these are new copies by the way, and cost millions less to develop and advertise, while bringing in even more revenue

Once again, you're comparing the success of Nintendo games to everyone else.

Nintendo is probably the most successful software developer ever. You gotta stop comparing them to everyone else.

once again Avinash_Tyagi tried to dimiss the success of MW2.

Regardless how much "legs" people think Wii or DS games have, How many games will EVENTUALLY reach the level MW2 will? I can probably count them in 2 hands.

 

 

A great achievement, Hype and promotion is definitely a part of it. But the game has to be good too. those people who piad close to 70 bucks a game aren't stupid, they do eventually will play the game and find out how it is.

On Wii quite a few, Mario Kart, Wii fit, Wii fit plus, Wii sports, Wii play, Wii sports resort, NSMB Wii, and who knows what else in the next few years

 

Might want to remove Wii Sports from that list, it's bundled, so going to be hard to demonstrate to us it has or will generate over 600 million$....( and when all is settled MW2 will be closer to 900 million$ or so lifetime).