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Millennium on 29 September 2008

Nintendo fails at marketing software. This is well-known. Next?



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Phoenix_Wiight on 29 September 2008

i'm very dissapointed.



bardicverse on 29 September 2008

Hmm so this might be the next Eternal Darkness, publishing wise, huh?

@Phoenix - Ive seen all 3 of those bands in your signature play live. THe lead singer of Less than jake threw a McDonald's cheeseburger into the crowd, and the patty landed on my shoulder lol



Jo21 on 29 September 2008

they did adversite it, they had 3 ads posted here on nationals tvs in japan.

but the game didn't apply to the demography my theory.

i guess they are more happying playing wii fit.



woopah on 29 September 2008

it was stupid to have the japnesse adverst with english voices



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Riachu on 29 September 2008
woopah said:
it was stupid to have the japnesse adverst with english voices

The game was made for Western gamers, I'd assume

 



 

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Gnosis on 29 September 2008

I predicted 20k for the first week. Hopefully end up around there maybe.
It's not bad, but it's not exactly good either. Like Soriku said, hopefully it will sell better in the west.



Valkyria00 on 29 September 2008

If it sell only 100,000 or 200,000 lifetime Im sure its still gonna make its money back. The game doesnt look like it had high costs.

Still its to be expected this game came out of nowhere.



Oyvoyvoyv on 29 September 2008

Assume a 20K first week.

Zack & Wiki opened with 9K, 30K total.
Red Steel opened with 9K, 40K total
No More Heroes opened with 11K, ended with 40K.
Wario Land opened with 25K, 100K total.
Donkey Kong:BB opened with 27K, ended with 110K
RE4 Wii opened with 50K - 150K total.


Seems like Wii games usually 4x their first week, so 75-100K in Japan for this game seems likely.

If it makes 90K (optimistic) that would make it the ~ 50th best selling console game there for the gen.

For a comparison, 50th place in America is ~ 900K.

So all in all, this may not be a crisis opening.



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS