I needed a thread to post this in:

Upcoming Wii Million Sellers - I bolded the ones that will most likely pass the milestone before the year ends

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Michael Jackson: The Experience

uDraw Studio

Call of Duty Black Ops

Kirby’s Epic Yarn

Goldeneye

Pokepark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

Hasbro Family Game Night

Rabbids Go Home

Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout

The Biggest Loser

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz

Super Mario All-Stars: LE

Nerf N-Strike Elite

I don't think Red Steel 2 will beat 1 million.

The game is no even inside the top200, lol.

Its said that the game flopped, it is actually a very good game and has very nice graphics.

he means combined. And of course when games have huge openings their legs see a bigger % dip. Legs means how well the game sells after the first few weeks not how well it sells compared to its first week like you seem to be implying. Hell that means Sniper Ghost Warrior has some of the best legs this gen simply because its first week was low. I will give you a quick comparision. Everyone raves about how good littlebigplanet's and just dance's legs are. But week 5-to date of call of duty modern warfare 2(360) are higher then ether of those games total sales. Even earasing the first few weeks of "frontloaded sales" it outsold them. I don't think anyone has ever said the nintendo "wii" games have bad legs though. They have among the best legs of any none console bundled games ever.

Meh, I knew about this trend ages ago. You can do better than that. I'll give this thread a 5.87/10.

This thread got me thinking about the sales trends for Wii games compared to the other 2 consoles. It does seem like the big Wii games (New Super Mario Bros./Mario Kart Wii) follow a different path than the big games on the HD consoles (Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Halo, Metal Gear Solid 4, etc.). But I was wondering if those same trends apply to the games on the consoles in general, or if they are only how the more prolific games sell.

So I did a quick little study. I used a random number generator to to pick a month from 2009 (it gave me 2 so February), and then used the random number generator to pick 5 games from the list of games released in that month according to gamrReview.

 Sample of Released Games in Feb. 2009 Americas

I did the same thing for Japan, except that the random gen # was 11, so November 2009 releases.

I tried to do the same for Europe, but too many games were missing data, so I left it at Americas and Japan for now.

Obviously this is a very very small sample size, but it does seem to indicate that Wii games in general have a higher first week to life time sales multiplier, not just for high profile releases.

Of course that could/probably be due in large part because of the genre's of games, casual titles have a higher first week to life time sales ratio in general, so if the Wii gets more of those games, it will make it's ratio higher. Still the High School Musical game that was released for all consoles in Americas, had the lowest First week/total sales ratio of the three consoles. So there probably are other factors involved with the Wii having a lower first week/total sales ratio overall.

It would be interesting to do a study looking specifically at certain genres (like how do FPSs in general compare to fps on the HD consoles) in first week/life time sales ratios.

I know this wasn't exactly what this topic was about, but since it was what convinced me to look at this I thought I would post in here instead of make a new thread.

Good observation, but you could use better examples. How about Wii Party or Kirby's Epic Yarn or even FlingSmash if it ends up doing well?

I'm planning on expanding this to incorporate more games, but I'm pushed for time and resources IMO >.<

Tomorrow I shall update with your ideas