Zack & Wiki failed part because of lack of promotion and part because of lack of availability.

The Wal-Mart I tend to buy my games from has it but some stores do not & that was the problem the first time when it debuted. It wasn't even in the stores.

Hopefully discounts will restore this title to prominence & maybe Europe will get behind it.

This is another example of the case of good art, bad commerce. Sometimes bad art makes good commerce which only stings when you realize how the good art should receive the reward. Balancing creativity and business is one of the hardest jobs to do. It has to be fresh but it also has to grab the attention of the buyers.

Sometimes junk sells only because it has the backing of good promotion and good name presence.

John Lucas 

cool!! I'm from Cyprus.....i think Wii is the most popular here in Cyprus....i've seen many advertisements in magazines, but not by Nintendo... :(

almost no-one has a ps3 here, i just won it at Wii tennis contest!!.... :p

*whoops....off-topic...sorry

Game have this banner in the top centre of their front page

It's currently 3rd in their chart behind SMG and Uncharted. 

Here in France, on Amazon FR right now Zack&Wiki is 15th best selling game, and the 4th best selling Wii game behind SMG, Wii Play and Mario & Sonic. Not bad.

Good to hear ... the game deserves it :)

it opened in the top 20 in the UK, not too bad... It might sell like 40k in others this week... It was have solid legs with the decent advertising and quality of the game.

Not seen any adds for the game yet, not seen many Nintendo adds anyway except Friday nights channel 4 where they do a lot of sponsoring!

I highly recommend Zak & Wiki though and I hope we get a sequal with some of my grumbles ironed out.

The game was released in Europe last Friday, but a bunch of us got it earlier. Compared to the US we have lots of smaller local, or national gaming stores, rather than the huge multinational ones, so release dates can be surprisingly flexible. I got it last Wednesday and made a thread about it.

Can't say I've seen any advertising, and the guy at the store was curious as to what kind of a game it was. Apparently he thought it looked like a regular silly kids game, and couldn't figure why a bunch of people he knew to be fanatical long time gamers had been preordering it. Most of my gamer geek friends with a Wii have bought it, but I didn't expect it to get much mainstream attention. The news of the TV ads in the UK have made me slightly more optimistic.

Wow, check out www.nintendo.co.uk - Zack and Wikitastic!

it was released here in the uk on friday the 18th. i went to my local game (game as in the biggest games specialists in the uk) on sunday the 20th to get a copy.

i asked the assisant if they had a copy and he didnt even know what i was talking about. after stating that it was released on friday he went to the stock room to double check if they had any and came back out with 5 copies.

this is really bad that game wouldnt have copies out on the shelves, but its more upsetting that it happened to be a game that is gonna struggle to be noticed anyway.

on the plus side the game is superb, one of my fav wii titles so far and i urge any wii owner to pick it up.