lets first see how all those 3 games turn out shall we?

Rare was always a second party/tied developer (The had the Donkey Kong license for DKC), which gives them a significant advantage over HVS. Plus, they were developing top tier games for 10 years before the SNES came out.

I think that HVS will never get as successful or popular as Rare was at it's height, but that's not saying anything bad about HVS. If they do a good job on the Conduit and the other two games they could potentially become a major developer, which will be impressive considering they were basically an unknown port-developer two years ago.

I think we should wait for them to release a game first...

Well, something that isn't a port or a TV show game.

You don't count wiiware games as releases? Gryotarr,Hot Rod King are wiiware games by them.

Honestly, Nintendo needs to at least sign HVS to an exclusive multi-game deal or something. They are at the very least a Wii tenacious developer and it would give better security to the core Wii audience.

Does the announcement of The Grinder drive the point home even further to truth?

Let's wait and see..They are a good Wiiware supporter for now and a very promising Wii developer. But the Conduit success will make them or break them. They have to sell at least half a mill.

Double post.

Half a million is guaranteed.

There is no way it will be outsold by Quantum of Solace, no matter the 007 brandname. COD3 sold a mil, before the COD series took the FPS genre by storm.
World at War recently sold 1m.

If No More Heroes could sell 400k with no advertising, Bully could sell 400k w/o advertising, Madworld could sell 200k in 10 weeks, it has the odds in its favor. Plus, with Sega behind TC with marketing/advertising, there is no way. Even Haze broke 600k.

High Voltage or rather Sega should advertise their games heavy to obtain a good result of sales. The unknowing Wii crowd is ready to buy, play and love their games '