I would think that a 30th place title would not be bad on the European charts considering:

1. Those charts include handhelds, consoles, and PC
2. Those charts appear to combine the same titles over different formats
3. The game was out for all of 6 weeks in Europe in 2007

Currently SMG is 27th in the UK -- but 19th if you count different format separatrely (with about five handheld titles above it). It is fifth on the Wii chart, behind Wii Play, Darts, Carnival Games (the game that no one saw coming), and Mario & Sonic at the Olympics.

This tells me that casual sells ... but so does good games.

And SSBB is BOTH.

Mike from Morgantown

I'm really getting tired of this new wave of "Nintendo will fail" comments from around everywhere, lol.
It annoys me to see such ignorant people blindly ignoring the facts that sorround them.

that guy is a duche :P, his statements are so full of nothing, he just cherry picks whatever he thinks suits better to his thoughts.

Strange that Super Mario Galaxy will ultimately sell more copies in the UK than Halo 3, the ultimate gamer game.

Can a man who over and misuses the word whilst be trusted?

Whilst you are retarded, you comments must be refuted.

SSBM sold 6 million copies when the Gamecube was a dead console selling only 22 million units worldwide, which the Wii has already equaled, so how big do you think Brawl is gona sell?

 Nintendogs didn't sell many copies did it?

I agree with him... to an extent. SSBB will be too frantic a game for many new gamers. Heck, I sometimes struggle with Mario Strikers frantic energy, and my daughter certainly won't touch that game (although she does play SSBM - poorly). It is easy to learn, and some, as bruceongames acknowledges, new gamers will get it, but I think a large portion of new gamers will just ignore it. To that I agree.

However, I think a lot of gamers own Wiis as a second console (or first) and they will all get it, and a lot of hold-outs will finally cave in and get a Wii as well. I think the % of 2 console owners this gen will be very high with a lot of hobby gamers as he puts it owning Wii60 or PSWii. Therefore, I disagree sales will be limited in any way.

I think the one thing we all agree on is the Wii is the best system to play with friends over, and SSBB definately fits the bill for that. It will be a major seller.

Yeah, 2 major problems:

1. Super Smash Bros. Melee was #1 best selling game on the Cube.

2. Melee found a common audience. Ask anyone who even touched a game system of any kind within the last 2 generations about Smash Bros. They will know what you are talking about

3. Smash is not "Too HardCore" It's easy to pick up and play, but difficult to master, and I like that about it.

4. I know many people who are going to go and buy a Wii for SSBB, so the amount of "HardCore" gamers that are going to play it will increase. Not to mention, the Wii's low price, and surplus of Japan-Only content, will make the console an easy second console for 360, and even some PS3 gamers.

Sure............. we all know that SMG sales are a flop......................... pfffff

The guy is just trying to get traffic to his website. Soriku fell into his trap flawlessly. lol

Someone is going to eat a pile of crow at the end of 2008...

i really wish i knew how to hack cause i'd hack his site and replace all his articles with porn. a vast improvement in content if i do say so myself.