| ssj12 said: did anyone really think this wasnt going to happen? |
Plenty of people predicted it would bomb or at least not be as much of a success as predicted and apart from John Lucas' crazy ass prediction (which would amount to Wii Fit having like a 70-90% attach rate in 1 week in Japan) they were either wrong (when predicting flopping from the start) or are very likely to be wrong (when predicting "merely" a few 100k to 1M).
The funniest one was hands down Tetsuo Shima who not only predicted it to flop because unlike Brain Training "it's not fun" (hmm, didn't a lot of people say Brain training was not a game but work and thus not fun when it launched???) and also said that Skiing was unnatural because he had to keep his legs too close together (I would so love to see him go down a slope with his legs apart until they each went their way, tearing the seat if his pants off and making him fall face first in some fresh snow; that ought to be a good skiing lesson for him to learn).
Now, will it be a long term success and will it be successful outside of Japan is still up for grabs but I would say yes because even though it has a good opening unlike most casual games who are frontloaded it seems to be a casual game par excellence and should thus have strong legs with even a possibility for it to outsell Wii Sport (in Japan only obviously).
As for America and Europe I think it will be successful both with people trying to lose some weight and with fitness-minded people using it as a fun complement to their usual regimen.
"I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it"
