Nights bombed because the original never performed well. People always seem to forget that Nights isn't a big franchise, until recently the title character had been demoted to cameos in Sonic games. But at the rate it's selling it won't be a total bomb.

The surprise to me on this list is Boogie. I remember when that originally came out and people were talking about how badly it flopped. Considering what the game is and the $60 price tag due to the mic, there's no doubt that EA made money off of it and still is since it seems to have some (very small) legs. This looks like a massive success compared to the PS2 version though, I was in Best Buy today and they literally had stacks of the PS2 Boogie on the shelves.

those are good sales,i think they would have been better if they were more advertised

 I'm not sayin your wrong or anything.  I just have a differing opinion.  Either way i do agree it could of done better.  

By looking at the reviews it seemed the games biggest probelm was that the reviewers had played the first one.

It sounds like a perfectly fine game but loses points for not being as good as the original. 

 Hmm, seems like you should have read his post more carefully before getting defensive.

 "Let's not bring logic into these threads now." is an insult.  He misunderstood my topic to be about success of Wii third party sales.  I didn't mean it that way, I posted the numbers "to spark debate on how past sales will effect future releases."

wow

@ Born First

umm cooking Mama....duh!!


The 267k was just in NA. It's again that much in the rest of the world (.58M).
I'd say Majesco is figuring out the Wii market with that game.

I find it hard to believe that anyone can still give serious thought to the tired notion that third party games don't sell on the Wii. It's just not true! They do in fact sell quite well, especially given the overall low quality of many of the third party efforts. I don't want to turn this into a fanboy war, but the best metric to show how well Wii third party games are selling is to compare them to PS3 third party efforts. After all, if the Wii sales are so bad, they should be getting outsold by the PS3 (which released at the same time), right?

Third Party Sales, America Only

Million Sellers
Wii: 1 (Guitar Hero)
PS3: 0

500k Sellers
Wii: 4
PS3: 3

400k Sellers
Wii: 11
PS3: 6

300k Sellers
Wii: 15
PS3: 9

200k Sellers
Wii: 27
PS3: 19

It's impossible to escape the conclusion that Wii third-party software has decisively outsold PS3 third-party software in the American market. What often confuses observers is the fact that the Wii has also sold boatloads of first-party software as well. But the video game market is not a zero-sum game: it's entirely possible to have strong first AND third-party sales!

Maybe eventually people will realize this.