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I'd be suprised if it was as big of a hit as it was in Japan in the US. A remote is different, you just swing it around while still remaining on your couch. There is a reason why singstar isnt big here but Guitar Hero is. Americans dont like anything that embarasses them.

It will be big, but not Wii Sports or Guitar Hero big. Lifetime im predicting about 2,000,000 in the US. It wont replace exercise equiptment, and if it really is going to come out in May its going to be eclipsed by GTA.

Then again, marketing well enough (MUCH BETTER THAN BRAWL) may save it. Who knows? Well see.



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most of the people buying wii fit won't be considering gta

and it'll sell more than 2mil in the US in 2008 alone; we can make a bet on that if u want

singstar is a group game that u can be embarrassed by since u have to sing...wii fit is a single player title that you play alone to get a workout, so no embarassment will occur

wii fit will outsell gta (combined consoles) ww ltd and a big part of those sales will be in the US


sidenote: gta won't be nearly as big as most here think...last gen it had a bigger install base and more CASUALS who eat up the title but most will NOT buy a console for 1 or 2 titles, thus why they are CASUALS...ps360 have less % of casuals than last gen, and less total numbers, so gta4 won't sell as much as previous versions



Bets:Missed by 420k I bet leo-j vg$500 that wii will sell 31 million by 7/31/08.  Sorry, I don't think he has enough vg$ to make it with all of u that wish you could. Hit, with room to spare I bet kingofwale a 1-week ban that wii Americas ltd sales>360 Americas ltd sales as of the numbers for week ending 7/05/08 (using vgchartz homepage #s)

Predictions:

Wii will sell 18-20mil by 12/31/07  CHECKWii will sell 45mil+ WW by 12/31/08Wii will surpass PS2 sales WW by 11/17/11 (5yr anniversary)Wii Fit will hit 12mil sales in 2009MKWii+SSBB+Wii Fit+SMG > 50 mil sales by 2010 > gta4+mgs+gt5+ff13+haze+lbp




Fastrabbit09 said:
Gnizmo said:
I can see myself being wrong, but $90 on-top of a $250 console just strikes me as sligtly too much.

yeah, gh3 only sold 1.6mil in US so far, so once all the HeroBoys buy wii fit, it won't sell another...so 1.6mil wii fit is confirmed as the ceiling =))


 Guitar Hero 3 was targetted at the casual party gamer crowd. Wii Fit is much more the single player experience. They have completely different target audiences and cannot be directly compared like that. In addition Guitar Hero 3's gameplay was entirely known to the masses where as Wii Fit is still fairly unknown. You might want to put a little more thought into your arguement next time.



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That much is absolutely true and it is very sad to me. The game will almost certainly be an amazing experience for its target audience. The unbelievably strong sales in Japan are great evidence of that. Still the game will get slagged in reviews because it is not a gamer's game. Much like Wii Sports and Wii Play before it, there is no point to the gameranking score of Wii Fit. Of course no one in the target audience will ever read even one of the reviews of the game so it won't hurt it any.



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No.



Nah. Maybe for some hysterical 14-year old World of Warcraft or PC-FPS fanboys, but otherwise, nah.



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