isnt ben10 that dumb cartoon ?

Almost 600k according to this site. It will climb an unknown amount. So really not bad for a new IP.

BTW, Call of Duty has sold 110k so far.

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=23991&region=All

A less than 50% drop in the US, and actually selling better in Others.

Core games flop?

de Blob looks like it could sell good, Star Wars The Force Unleashed is selling good, All Lego games are selling good, The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return is selling good with a sequel/spin-off on the way, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World is selling okay, 007: Quantum of Solace and Call of Duty: World at War both has a good start right now, Sonic Unleashed probably will sell good, Ghost Squad has sold Gold, No More Heroes has made a profit and will have a sequel.

Things could be better, I know. But more Core games will sell good and less will crash and burn at low numbers. Looking at Third Party sales overall we see Third Party games rivaling Nintendo games in sales. Next year we will see many core games not only escaping from flop status, but also getting descent to great sales.

To a degree I think "so what if Casual/Shovelware games sell more than many Core games", I think it's good every time a Core game reaches up to 500k, and even better if beyond. And that we will see much much more, as Wii installbase grows.

Looks like we finally have the Halo killer.

I just find it interesting people who automatically think the worst about the Wii -- and many of them own the console.

Also, Boom Blox appears to have a sequel under development, so it must have done OK as well.

Mike from Morgantown

It's always interesting to watch the shake-up that occurs when a new paradigm is set in the industry. Back in the late 1980s (I keep coming back to that, I know, but let's face it, it's inevitable), the idea that anything not related to turn-based strategy, adventure, flight simulation, stats-centric sports, D&D-derived RPGs, or action gaming could succeed struck the then-incumbent enthusiast gamers as impossible. They could not understand how platformers, JRPGs, KETMs, simple sports, and puzzle games were so popular on the NES, yet all of the games in the aforementioned "popular" genres of the day seemed to fail horribly on it.

I thought the average gamer was around 30?