naznatips on 17 January 2008
| akuma587 said: People who buy the Wii don't want anything experimental that isn't from Nintendo or that doesn't have a brand name attached to it already. Look at Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. Game has a 68 on metacritic but it has sold over 2 million. Zack and Wiki has an 87. A very good score. Guess how many it has sold? 130,000 copies. The Wii is generally about name recognition and trendiness, of course with some exceptions like Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime, Brawl, Twilight Princess, and WarioWare which I can legitimately say are quality games. |
Zack & Wiki was given ridiculously poor retailer support and zero advertising. Well under 25% of retailers even stocked the game till a month after it was released, and even then it was (and remains) completely unadvertised.
