Red Steel 2 U.S. Sales at 50,000

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Gamerace said:

O-D-C said:
Wii games like Red Steel 2 thend to have long legs, add to that the critical reception and that it's bundled with a Wii Motion Plus and I think Red Steel 2 will do just fine

Sorry but I have to disagree with this.  Games like this USED to have legs on Wii.  They simply don't anymore.

Look at FFCC:CB or NMH2 for recent examples (or Dead Space or any other recent 'core' release) they sell poorly at first and then drop like a rock.    Good casual titles continue to have legs though - look at Just Dance.  T vs C may be the only exception here and I'm not sure it's much of one.  It should break 250k though.

The audience for this type of game has largely moved on to HD and the remaining audience either doesn't care about it, won't settle for a half game (no online/multiplayer) or like me, will wait for the price drop because we're not so 'core' we need it day one.

When RE4 has sitting pretty at 15k every week it had zero competition (until NMH) and was one of the cheapest Wii games at the time. Now there's a lot of 'core' titles to choose from on shelves starting from $20.  Not much compared to HD systems, but more than enough for the small 'core' left on Wii.

And yes CoD:MWR sells well.  But it's CoD! And compared to HD versions it still sells like crap.   With that as the standard, the only other 'core' game I'd expect to make 1m sales on Wii now is GTA (should it ever happen).

Oh wow, let's move the goal posts, let's discount any game that could disprove what we say (Tatusnoko doing very well for this type of game thank you, Reflex being a two year old port of a game that is already available at discount on the HD and with 0 advertising doing very well thank you), and add any game that may  prove our point no matter if the game was either considered crap by most of the series fans (FFCB) or had 0 advertising (NMH2) or had 0 advertising and was the wrong genre at the wrong time to boot (Extraction).

If MH TRi sells 50k first month NPD I will conceed you are correct. But both you and I know it will do more than that, so what will be your excuse? That it's getting an advertising campaign?