Almost went with "She's got legs" but figured that would get the discussion sidetracked just as much as this introduction is going.
Legs. In Games.
You hear it all the time, especially with disappointing initial day/week sales. And more often than not, now for the Wii games. Which, many do seem to have strong legs. Wii Fit and SMG in Japan as two examples.
My questions are:
What to you defines that a game has legs?
Do Nintendo games really have 'a leg up' ( ;) ) on the competition, or does it just seem that way because the other systems start out with so strong in that first weeks sales that the LTD seems weak in comparison?
If yes, to the above question, why is it? If no, is it a bad thing to seem that your game has no legs even though LTD sales are okay to great?
My opinions -
I think that a game has legs if at least 50%, probably higher, is outside of the first week's sales.
Nintendo Wii games tend to show more leg than the PS3 or X360.
Most Nintendo games aren't the type that get so hyped then dropped to go on immediately to the next big game of the same type. So the 'older' games sell to the new purchaser of a Wii better than to the new purchaser of the PS3 or X360.
Your opinion?
Torturing the numbers. Hear them scream.
