Me on 28 June 2008
maybe not directly but I think it will demonstrate which games have an audience and which will bomb, this is also what the figures on Nintendos channel is to help with.
Say if Lost Winds has 2 - 3 games and all are top sellers, gets great reviews is well hyped and well talked about then at some point people are going to copy that formula and retail it.
Imagine if games had a Wii Ware prequel / training mode released beforehand where you could earn some status to unlock somethings in the game when it arrived and it was sold for say a token amount. This would kinda act the same way as the 360 demo channel in a way as we know how impatient gamers get.
