Tournament of Legends - what happened?

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Sales are going to be horrendous. It was clear to me this one would fail even before it became Tournament of Legends. While it might have faired slightly better in its older form, while many people (at the time) went ZOMG over The Grinder, there was almost no interest for Gladiator AD excepot some lone voices here and there.

But don't worry, once this will bomb big time (imo guaranteed far worse than Extraction's 1st NPD), someone will use it yet again in the age old argument of 3rd party games don't sell on Wii. Same as Extraction (that did get better reviews, ok) - it was clear right from the moment it was announced to be on-rails almost to anyone (given the strong reaction by people) that it will fail, but that didn't prevent its being used as the flagship game to prove 3rd party core games don't sell.

This was not a smart move by Sega, they should have scrapped this game, since this game (not just the sales, but the game itself) will also imo have a negative impact on Conduit 2 sales. At least some of the people who were willing to give Conduit 2 the benefit of the doubt will say "well if this their latest effort one year later then no way Conduit 2 will be an improvement over 1". I am not one of those who think this says anything about Conduit 2, but some people will be, costing Conduit 2 sales.