Sales wise has Nintendo made a good decision in reviving old franchises?

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mortono said:

sethnintendo said:

Killiana1a said:

My predictions:

Donkey Kong Country Returns - 3 to 7 million range

Kirby's Epic Yarn - 2 to 4 million range

Kid Icarus - 2 to 4 million range

Goldenye 007 - 4 to 8 million range

Your predictions seem about right to me except for a few.  Hard to predict Kid Icarus but I think Donkey Kong Country Returns will sell least 5 million easily and probably do the best out of all those games.  I think Goldeneye will sell around 7 million but that might just be wishful thinking (we have to see how the game turns out first, also FPS shooters don't really break high millions on Wii yet but that could change with Goldeneye).  Anyways, I'm still waiting for another F-Zero.....  Let Sega produce it again.....

Goldeneye is being made by a company called Eurocom (a longtime maker of movie tie-in shovelware). It's also being published by Activision and not Nintendo.

I predict 1m at the most for that game.

Eurocom also holds the distinction of making the only decent non-Rare 007 games (TWINE, Nightfire).   They're not exactly a pure shovelware dev, though they do work for hire on shovelware.  That's not uncommon for talented devs though, look at Wayforward.

Eurocom's last Wii game was Dead Space Extraction, and that got generally glowing reviews...