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Gamerace on 12 December 2012
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There are many factors:

1) Epic Mickey sold to a lot of families/kids who were put off by the dry gameplay. My nephew never got past the first 20 minutes (boring....) and even I never played past the first two hours. It was dull. I hear it gets excellent but it shouldn't be a chore to get to the excellent part. I'm sure there's a ton of vertually unplayed copies out there.

2) Poor marketing

3) Wii - which is the lead platform, is pretty dead at this point.

4) Owners of HD systems presumably never played the first one so it's hard to get them on bored with a sequel. They should have sold a two-pack 1&2 on PS3/360

5) Instead of using currently relevant and popular characters, they use the most obsure Disney characters - largely from the 60's. I don't even know most of them. I'm sure that put a lot of people (kids especially) off from the first one.

5) These types of games never sell well on the HD consoles. Lego does okay but look at De Blob 2.

6) Terrible reviews. Just horrid. Considering the first was considered excellent but with significant problems (camera) the fact that this one is just play mediocore is inexcusable. Played some of it. Compared to Lego the AI on your mandatory partner is just broken and annoying. Really, if this the best Warren Spector can do then he should be canned.

7) Expect this to have legs for a while - typical of most Wii titles on Wii. So it might make 1m lifetime all systems combined but doesn't deserve it.