| curl-6 said: I find it hard to believe XCX and XBC 3D won't outsell the Wii original. There was just so much working against the Wii release; it was an unproven IP, it released late in the West, it arrived in the Wii's twilight years, it was heavily pirated, it had a limited run in North America, etc. The newer games not only have a chance to avoid all these pitfalls, but will also benefit from digital sales and the promotion of the series in the recent Smash Bros. |
1. Many IPs start out as unproven so this works against just about every other first game in the franchise ...
2. Releasing late in other territories isn't an excuse seeing as how no next gen consoles were released at the time ...
3. You might have a point there since the software output was paltry at the time ...
4. The people that had pirated it never intended to get it in the first so there was hardly any lost sales ...
5. It also had reprints ...
There's a lot less handicaps than you think ...
