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The Wii-only and well-reviewed samurai Western Red Steel 2 sold about 50,000 copies in the U.S. in its first month of release, according to financial analyst Michael Pachter. [UPDATE: Ubisoft comments.]

That follows a halving by publisher Ubisoft of its sales projections for the game. The previous Red Steel, a first-person shooter/sword-fighting game like its sequel, has sold more than a million copies.

The difference between the two Red Steels is not just critical reaction — the first was panned — but a few years. Red Steel, the first Wii game ever revealed, via the cover of Game Informer magazine, was a 2006 Wii launch title.

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http://kotaku.com/5518848/red-steel-2-us-sales-at-50000-expert-says-%5Bupdate%5D

I am NOT going to quote the entire text of the Kotaku article, because it is yet another example of Kotaku trolling the Wii.

I AM going to quote Ubisoft's response though:

A Ubisoft spokesperson confirmed the sales figures but correctly pointed out that they are based on only a partial month's performance, as Red Steel 2 was released on March 23, less than half a month before NPD's March reporting period ended on April 3. "Considering that the NPD sales only accounted for 12 days on the store shelves and that NPD doesn't include all retailers we are looking forward to a complete month of sales data to see where we stand."

what part is the Wii trolling?

Wii games like Red Steel 2 thend to have long legs, add to that the critical reception and that it's bundled with a Wii Motion Plus and I think Red Steel 2 will do just fine

If I quoted it, I would be achieving what I was trying to avoid . Basically calling the sales poor based on its 12 day sales while ignoring that Wii games often have a different sales pattern that HD games, and the usual cherry picking. Let me quote one of the comments to that article:

"Long story short, Wii 3rd party games tend to be very "slow burners". This is a point that goes all too unnoticed by the majority of videogame commentators, bloggers or otherwise. Nearly all of the games in the list above went through the same cycle--they saw very low sales initially which got of all the coverage and bemoaning from commenters before eventually seeing a post-launch surge that went unreported. Now, I'm not necessarily saying that Red Steel 2 WILL be a success eventually, just that it's much too early to draw any conclusions based on the present data, especially considering all of the past games that were slow burners. It would be wise to wait, in other words."

[Added] In case it was not clear, what I consider the trolling part in the Kotaku article is NOT in the section I quoted, it starts after that [/added]

Pretty good I was expecting less considering that this game was throw without any ad or support. Also seems like VG Chartz was in spot about this one.

thats not trolling, that is true, they are saying third party games tend to sell low, and have legs.

you can thank piracy for that.

So it's sales are tepid, basically, thus far.

No no no sorry , my bad, the comment I quoted I totally agree with. The trolling part is the part of the article I haven't quoted...

Ermm Ubisoft NPd DOES include all retailers

Yes they don't get data from WalMart but they do "Estimate" the sales Wal Mart probably gets, yeah it won't be too accurate, but they do account for the stores that don't give them data at all.

Wii games just take a long time to sell

come back to the sales in 6 months...


look @ CoD MW Reflex....it sold crappy its first week, but now its dancing its way to a million.