Why Red Steel 2 bombed

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I know what many of you are saying.  You're saying that it's way too early to call it a sales failure and that it's well known that Nintendo games have legs.  Sorry but it's already dead.  All I have to do is compare it's sales to another well known bomb for the Wii known as the Conduit.

First week sales of Red Steel 2:  68,048

First week sales of the Conduit:  82,953

I wrote an entire thread about why the Conduit bombed and let's look at my main reason.  The Conduit bombed because of the celebrity involvement of Kevin Sorbo and Rick Nielsen.  It was decided that High Voltage getting celebrities to be involved with their game was a good idea but these two guys were the wrong celebrities.  They should have gotten Marc Singer from the Beastmaster to do voice acting and Yngwie Malmsteen to play guitar instead of those two.  That being said, at least High Voltage tried.

Ubisoft did not get any celebrities at all to be involved in their game.  They didn't try at all in this respect.  Why didn't they get a celebrity to be the voice actor for the main character?  Obviously the Hero is a knock off of the Man With No Name, but I can understand why Clint Eastwood would cost too much money and Charles Bronsan died a couple of years ago (man did I love him).  Who should they have gotten?  How about Kevin Costner?  He's been in a couple of Westerns and hasn't been doing much work lately.  Truth be told, he's not a very good actor and he'd be happy to be doing anything that isn't a movie about baseball.  Also,  Ennio Morricone obviously wouldn't be available to do the soundtrack, but they could get John Bon Jovi to do it.  He's written songs about cowboys and even though I think that his music sucks, it would have gotten the interest of middle aged women that play Wii Fit.

Some other brief points:

It is well known that core games don't sell on the Wii.  Madworld, House Of the Dead: Overkill, Manhunt 2, No More Heroes, and Mario Kart Wii are all sales failures.  People just want to play sodoku, minigames, and exercise with their Wiis.  Just face it people.

Lack of advertising is also a problem.  Even though I have seen several commercials in primetime it wasn't enough.  It's never enough until the game sells as much as I want.

Piracy is a huge issue.  If it weren't for piracy, New Super Mario Bros. Wii would have sold 95 million copies by now.

Lastly, the controls are also a problem.  Don't get me wrong, they work really well but swinging around a remote acting like it's a sword makes you look stupid.  Hardcore gamers wouldn't be caught dead using lame motion controls like that.

So there you have it.  Red Steel 2 bombed and there's nothing that you can say or do to dispute this fact.