Any talk of why NMH2 bombed so hard? Or what about S&P2?

There must be some reason all these core games bomb on the Wii. Or we should atleast hear an excuse.

I bet you forgot to add these sales to TvC: http://www.vgchartz.com/game.php?id=27320

The fact that NMH2 has a limited appeal to begin with and was released with barely a whisper of marketing attached to it on the same day that Mass Effect 2, M.A.G., and to a lesser extent Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom was also released may have something to do with its underperformance.

Sin & Punishment 2 was never going to sell well because, among other things, it's a rail-shooter, which means its success is going to be very limited (unless it has a huge name attached to it, which it didn't).

I'm not bashing either game, though. I think both of them are great.

Well in my opinoin, the original was not very good and that might have a lot to do with the poor sales of NMH2. I mean the original sold well so why didn't they come back for the sequel? Even the legs have been bad at discounted prices.

I don't expect mega sales for a rail shooter. But I was expecting better than it has received. Its almost like TV advertising had no impact.

Well in my opinoin, the original was not very good and that might have a lot to do with the poor sales of NMH2. I mean the original sold well so why didn't they come back for the sequel? Even the legs have been bad at discounted prices.

I don't expect mega sales for a rail shooter. But I was expecting better than it has received. Its almost like TV advertising had no impact.

No the Director's thoughts were not interesting at all. He never stated that the reason people buy first person shooters are for the Multiplayer. It's too late to release a game like this with no multiplayer. Secondly, he states that the game should have been multiplatform, like that guarantees hits. It does not and many games multiplatform games have bombed, like Dark Void  and Bionic Commando.

Instead of looking for excuses, the director should have been thinking of ways to make the game better. There is a reason that this game was ignored. It's not because there are no gamers on the Wii. Call of Duty games do fine on the system. There is more logical reason than playing the blame game.

I wonder will IGN do and Interview to see why Family Friendly games do not sell well on the HD systems. I know they will never do that. They like to propagate the myth that every game sells on the HD systems and third party games do not sell well on the Wii.

You might be right in that people who didn't enjoy the first were put off from getting the second, but I think Ubisoft's failure to acknowledge the game's existence hurt just as much if not more. I was reading more than a few comments from fans of the first game who didn't even know the second was out weeks after its release. Of course, there's no real exact answer to why games sell/don't sell, so it's possible we're both right.

People bought bioshock for multiplayer? pfahahahahahahaha.

Thanks for commenting to one specific detail in my post. Maybe I should have worded it differently for you but one of the complaints about Red Steel 2, which has already be mentioned in the thread is that it lacked a multiplayer. I do not know why people bought Bioshock? I know I would not h ave. That's me and my decision.