My fiance (a casual Wii player) read "Wii Fit" over my shoulder and asked me what it is. He'd never heard of it. No wonder it hasn't been selling as well as it could have in Japan. Hopefully when they release it over here there'll be plenty of TV advertising to make casual gamers aware of it.

It has been selling out and is not selling as well as it could??????

I don't understand your line of thought.

There will probably be lots of advertising in the week it is getting released and after, but mostly by word of mouth or media.

Why are there pictures on Kotaku of row after row of Wii Fits then and stories about how it isn't selling brilliantly? :s Its sales tracked on here don't look as impressive as the hype made me expect http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=7480

You are using someone from the US as reasons the game isn't selling Japan? It doesn't work that way. In case you hadn't heard, Wii Sports sold to casuals AFTER it was released, not before.

go look at brain training, nintendogs, pokemon red/blue and wiisports (japan) sales.

these games don't start off amazingly, but have legs that last for years.

and considering the price, i'd say its doing extremely well so far. the fastest selling wii game in japan as a matter of fact.

Yeah Nintendo has never been huge into advertising. And to think, they are much better now than they have been since the NES days. Thankfully, Wii anything spreads by mouth and though the software takes an initial hit from lack of advertisements, it gains momentum with time.

Because Kotaku is more akin to a tabloid rather than a serious gaming news site. They don't even know that the S symbol in Metroid stands for Screw Attack

nintendo doesn't really start advertising until the game is about to come out. A friend from Japan is visiting me now (in Korea), she doesn't really play video games but really wants to play the wii. She said they have Wii Fit on TV all the time, most of the time it's not nintendo advertisements it is regular TV shows that are showing it.

Didn't Nintendogs debut at under 200k?

Wiifit is doing amazing, well I thought anyway.