| TheSource said:
Its a shame we'll probably never get an update on this again. I'd reckon with the Wii hardware / software infusion of Nov-Dec 50 or more titles will be over 1m in the US alone by year end (Zelda, JD3, Zumba 2, Mario & Sonic, Kirby, Rayman, Fortune Street could all do it by year end and several titles will crawl above 1m from 800-999k). VGChartz data scaled down shows 52 games (51 without Wii Sports) topping 1m in the US so we're not exactly miles out. For what its worth, PS2 with a 30% larger user base to date and twice the time on the USA market has 108 games over 1m in the US by VGC data. |
Those games passing a million in the US by the end of the year seems incredibly optimistic (well look who I am talking to). Neither Mario and Sonic game broke a million in the US in their first calendar year and they both released earlier in the year. No Kirby console game has done a million in the US (at least according to VGC). Only one of the Rabbids games sold over a million. Each one since then has sold less and less. I don't think being a platformer this time will help. Plus it is multiplat. Fortune street is a bit of a wild card, but I can't see it selling a million in the US in under a month. Itadaki Street didn't sell nearly as well as the Mario Party games in Japan, even with the massive DQ and Mario fanbase on the DS. Maybe if they changed the name or something. Also I don't think Zumba 2 is a lock for a million by the end of the year. It could go the way of Just Dance, but it could easily go the way of EA Sports Active or Gold's Gym or Jillian Michaels' Fitness etc etc.
The PS2 also shipped over 1.5 billion units of software compared to 796.8 million sold on vgchartz. While most of that is probably EMEAA, I doubt the American numbers can really be called accurate.
