"Who's to Blame for Nintendo's Missing Wii Games, we are." - I beg to differ. My buttal

[Torillian]

Soriku said:

kitler53 said:

you are of course basing that on cold hard facts as opposed to wishful-thinking and anedocs right??  look at my other post about opportunity cost -- xeno is a poor investment for nintendo.  the wii doesn't have an active userbase for this kind of game, as much as you'd like to believe that...

Umm...have you seen the other sales of games in the UK or are you just trying to cherry pick? And that's also 1 day of sales. France is doing much better - reports of the game being sold out and 38k copies shipped. Xenoblade is doing well in regards to the state of the UK gaming market.

When I look at HW sales charts and I see the Wii selling very similarly to the other two consoles, it's hard not to take people saying that the Wii is "dead" as a joke.

I don't see how there could plausibly be 38,000 shipped to just France when the UK seems to have gotten not even close to that many or the sell through for UK has been terrible.  If you're expecting anything for first week over 30-40k for all of EU I think you are going to be sorely dissapointed.