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thetonestarr on 19 October 2008

By-the-by, NMH:DS will have the building reputation of its predecessor to thank for its better launch.

No More Heroes sold poorly, and doesn't have many units shipped. Soon enough, units will cease to ship and that is when the game will begin building reputation. Those hard-to-find high-quality games quickly earn fame. Word-of-mouth increases at those times, and the reputation builds in the gaming community.

Then the sequel comes out.



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Diomedes1976 on 19 October 2008

Monster Hunter 3 should be very big ,at least in Japan.

But I dont see NMH2 or The Conduit selling too much.



thetonestarr on 19 October 2008
Diomedes1976 said:
Monster Hunter 3 should be very big ,at least in Japan.

But I dont see NMH2 or The Conduit selling too much.

 

You have to remember one thing - games that cater most towards core gamers are usually the sort that have the most impressive launches. So-called "core" games sell big at first and have poor legs; more "casual" games sell alright at first and have great legs.



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WiiStation360 on 19 October 2008

Luckily, I has this data compiled for a previous thread.

There were 17 Nintendo games that had launches over 100k, and 14 3rd party games.
- Dragon Quest Swords had the top 3rd party launch.  It had over 310k in Japan alone.  Monster Hunter 3 should take this spot as the top 3rd party launch week.
- Star Wars: the Force unleashed had the second biggest non-Nintendo Wii launch week.
- GH4 should be able to beat GHIII's launch.

Top 1st week sales for Wii games:

 

1 SSBB Nintendo 2,838,285
2 Mario Kart Wii Nintendo 2,408,699
3 Wii Fit Nintendo 1,626,973
4 Super Mario Galaxy Nintendo 1,085,298
5 Wii Sports Nintendo 1,077,368
6 Legend of Zelda: TP Nintendo 820,122
7 Mario Party 9 Nintendo 620,091
8 Wii Play Nintendo 481,657
9 Super Paper Mario Nintendo 384,384
10 Metroid Prime 3:Coruption Nintendo 367,288
11 Dragon Quest Swords Square Enix 341,398
12 Star Wars:TFU LucasArts 296,580
13 Link's Crossbow Training Nintendo 291,612
14 Guitar Hero III Red Octane 276,240
15 M&S Olympics Sega 264,949
16 Pokemon Battle Revolution Nintendo 258,928
17 Resident Evil: UC Capcom 240,978
18 Wario Ware: Smooth Moves Nintendo 190,993
19 Mario Strikers Charges Nintendo 183,515
20 Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Activision 167,571
21 Tales of Symphonia:DotNW (JP only) Namco Bandai 164,210
22 Resident Evil 4 Capcom 154,233
23 Lego Indiana Jones LucasArts 151,554
24 Mario Super Sluggers Nintendo 147,377
25 Red Steel Ubisoft 142,588
26 Lego Batman WB Interactive 142,221
27 Fire Emblen: Radiant Dawn Nintendo 136,671
28 Rock Band MTV Games 131,480
29 Madden NFL 09 All-Play EA 119,235
30 Deca Sports Konami 118,126
31 Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree Nintendo 116,830

 

 

 



segajon on 19 October 2008

Don't you guys remember that NASTY EVIL UBISOFT BOYCOTT THAT THE WII FANBOYS WRECKED HAVOC UNTO UBISOFT, with that red steel 2 will sell like shit.



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irstupid on 19 October 2008

well i will wait until a great 3rd party game comes out beore seeing a big debut.

and i mean a exclusive big 3rd party. You said SW TFU had a big/decent debut. Well imagine a big game like that with big advertising like it had and it being a wii exclusive. Then you will see your big (GTA, Halo, ect. numbers)

Well not that high, but you know over 500k first week stuff.



thetonestarr on 19 October 2008
segajon said:
Don't you guys remember that NASTY EVIL UBISOFT BOYCOTT THAT THE WII FANBOYS WRECKED HAVOC UNTO UBISOFT

 

No.



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Maynard_Tool on 19 October 2008

I hope Guitar Hero manages a GREAT debut!!!



03/10/09 HUGE day in my life:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=63437&page=1

scottie on 19 October 2008

There will become more 3rd part Wii games with big debuts when the major franchises from the 6th generation convert to the Wii

GTA V and FFXIV will have huge opening weeks. Although XIV mightn't be released this gen at the rate SE is going

Segajon, We decided to not buy the shit games that Ubisoft made, but still buy the good ones.

Maybe you should apply this same logic to your sentences - Do not say the shit ones, only the good



Voltaire on 19 October 2008

I read NMH2 was late 09 early 2010, but if the devlopment is so young, i doubt those are accurate release dates. Being released in time for the holidays will obviously help, but i think it will sell very well even if it isnt. Its a niche game, so chances are the people that bought the first game will buy the second game.