This has been on my mind for a while now.

In the beginning of this year, a great Wii game by the name of No More Heroes came out. It was awesome, but its sales were pretty crappy. Not many people knew about the game. Is the same thing going to happen with other Wii games that we're so hyped for?

I'm so happy all these games are coming out, but are they actually going to sell well?

I think that MadWorld will only do slightly better than No More Heroes, but I think that The Conduit will do well for itself (like MP3-numbers or slightly higher). Nevertheless, I think both will make a profit.

thats only because Ubisoft published NMH,and decided not to advertise it, Sega should get the word out about Madworld, and I hope a big company gets Conduit for the same reason.

That's a good point, spdk1. SEGA are pretty good with advertising. Rethinking it, I think MadWorld may well break 1 million and maybe go a lot further if SEGA put proper effort into the advertising of it.

I fear that both will stay under 500k.
But The Conduit has the potential of being a surprise hit(sales & 3rd party quality wise).

Madworld will probably do as well as No More heroes. I don't think the comic style graphics will give it wide appeal. Counduit will definitely do well and sell at least 1 million copies.

Sales of NMH were actually good as it's a niche title. It was a relatively low budget game and play time was relatively short for a single player game. That makes it good for a 1-2 day rental for people who don't collect games and it also offers limited replay value.

Some games are a flop at 1,000,000. Some games are a huge success at 100,000. NMH falls into the later, GTA IV would be in the former.

hmm, thats sadening for Madworld, but you're probaly right. though, if sega does advertise it well, it might reach a million.

now I'm adding another game to this list: Disaster: Day of Crisis

how do you think that will do

Anyone can tell from the texture quality of NMH that it was a low budget game

I HOPE that Disaster will do very. If it breaks one million I'll be overjoyed. I think Disaster's performance all depends on it's reviews. It's a fairly unknown game, but a lot of people will probably see reviews for it in magazines and such, and if it gets like 8 or higher people, particularly Wii-only owners, might think "Oh, cool, maybe I should check it out". If it, however, gets closer to 6 or lower I don't think people will be as eager to try it out.