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1) Sort of - i posted the data to show that the games that had sold in huge numbers on the Wii did not demonstrate (as claimed by someone elsewhere) that Wii users had the least diverse game tastes. Comparing the games that has sold in huge numbers across the 3 home platforms was, I felt, a legitimate way of addressing/rebuffing the claim.
2) That's an interesting question - I bought NMH and really enjoyed it, but never got around to getting the sequel. I think that's because, while I enjoyed it, I didn't feel inclined to repeat the experience so soon after the original. Now I would by no means regard myself as representative of the typical Wii gamer, but my tendency (which is not absolute by any means, but a tendency nonetheless) to avoid repeating game experiences within a short space of time may be shared by others, and may in some way account for the disappointing performance of many sequels on the Wii (relative to the originals). I'm often amazed at how a new CoD outperforms its predecessor and leads to hardware spikes (who was drawn to an HD machine by CoD:MW3, but not MWs 1 and 2?) - we've seen with games like SMG2, Zelda:SS and various others that being a Wii sequel to a critically acclaimed and big-selling predecessor does not make outperforming that predecessor particularly likely (unlike on the HD systems). I don't say this to imply that Wii owners' tastes are more diverse, I just offer it as an observation in response to your point about NMH.







