Word of mouth. People are always ragging on "casual" or "minigame" titles when in reality they're fun and well put together titles that appeal to wide audiences.
Infact, I think it's quite telling that a lot of these games achieve massive sales based on word of mouth while publishers are in a marketing blitz war to get their hardcore violent games to sell the same amount.
I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do.
Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.
Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.