Ludologists love controls and gameplay, anything directly interacting with the game.  Narratologists (as yourself) care more about passive elements such as pretty graphics and good stories.

Nobody is lowering their standards by preferring interaction over ornamentation.

That said, a game can't exist on control alone, or else we wouldn't need anything besides MoH:2.

Well it is the best shooter on Wii. That is reason alone for sales. Now it all depeds on marketing. I have no clue why everyone is so negative. Maybe it is because asll of you bought HD console after getting sick of the Wii. Now when a quality game does come out. It is flamed on. It deserves the hype.

The was nothing more that loved to do besides play COD4 on my PS3 all day long. But after playing the Conduit at PAX it was a much better experience.

Precise aiming
Beautiful graphics on a TV screen not low res internet videos. (And I play COD4 on 1080p)
Controls were completely customizable and fantastic.
And I could go on and on about my experience but guess hwat it was actually able to pull off something that COD4 couldn't
SCOPE REFLECTIONS!! COD4 faked them whereas The Conduit does it in real time.

There is a reson it got all the awards. ANd how dare you call HVS second-rate devs. Every dev starts some where and the have explained why those games were bad. They worked on liscened titles like..family Guy, Billy and Mandy..
These guys know what quality means and maybe if you played the agme you would realize it.
So many fanboys on this thread or atleast sore losers who are prud of their HD consoles and merely want to belittle the wii. Maybe if you waited to base your opinions until after you played. Or atleast give us reason for why you think the game is bad so HVS can take care of them.
They have give the Wii its best title. Yes BETTER than Metroid once you play the game.

I HAVE NEVER SEEN A DEV TEAM WHO ACTUALLY GOES ON FORUMS FOR 6 hours straight to make their game better. these guys acre about what we get. the want to make a game that they can enjoy themselves not just keep the profits from sales.

one more thing, sales....It may not have what it COULD HAVE HAD because so many harcore gamers ditched Nintendo(I don't plame you). But the slaes will still be good judging by how many pre-orders the game had so far.

80 points max on metacritic, something like 500k in sales numbers.

Relying at all upon online play as it does, reviewers will trash it as "why not Xbox Live?" or ask why the graphics couldn't be better, or something

Triple A? False.

90% + reviews are possible. 3 Mln sales is also possible IMO. Depends on if it really catches on. I think it will have strong legs, and probably be one of the best selling third party games on wii in 09. Let's face it pretty much every big wii fan will pick up the conduit, and tell there friends about it. Word of mouth will go a long way. Hopefully a couple of TV ads will help too.

It looks good, don't overhype it. It might suck. Don't count your chickens, ect, soforth.

I would love to make a bet on that. I think that The Conduit will not break 1.5 million by 1 Jan 2009. Want to join in on that numonex?

Given what HVS has made before, I'm not sure why people are excited about this game.

1 million for a 'claimed' AAA game is pathetic... in any console (even for PSP).

also, 1 million is hardly 3 million the OP was prophesizing, now is it? ;)

i would bookmark this thread... but then again. I bookedmarked "Battle of the Band" and when I brought it up again. I was banned for "trolling".. *shrugs*

Don't let the mod do that to ya. ;)

And I highly doubt this will outsell Call of Duty: WaW.