A lot of Wii games (and games in general) are getting Black Friday/Holiday boosts.

But games for the Wii in general seem to sell very very differently than past models. That confounds a lot of "experts" -- but it also means that if you are patient, you can make a profit.

Also, most of the games mentioned do not seem to have benefited from the price cut boost (Zack & Wiki not withstanding).

Mike from Morgantown

Yes if people actually cared to look the 130 Wii titles that did 10k or more last week was quite diverse.  Numerous kinds of games.  Your Nintendo titles, to sports titles, to music titles, to platformers, to action titles, to shooters, to RPGs, to party games, and of course your shovelware.  Point is there is nothing single doing well but everything doing well.

What are the really frontloaded Wii games then?
What distinguishes them from the games wich sells more and more as time goes by?

@Killergran: Nothing, even the most fronloaded Wii games have shown excellent legs. There's no such game on the Wii that sells good in it's first 2 months and then dies off. The game either sells or bombs terribly. Terrible bombs are too rare, they are mostly relegated to the Japanese market, where games rarely showed legs outside of a Nintendo made game.

I wonder if I can dare to hope for De Blob to break a million.

Hmm can't wait to see how COD5 does over time.

I'd say you should dare to hope.  At the least, De Blob will have about 550,000 sold by the end of the year.  More realistically it'll be at about 650k-700k range with a maximum at 730k.  So either way it'll be in a good range to "leg" it out in 2009.

Probably not, but 500k is certain and that's likely more than enough for THQ. Deadly Creatures probably has a little higher targets.

Alright. I'm going to try to follow most of the recent tiny releasers to see where they go. Namco Museum and the Pinball game have officially made it and made it big time.

I'll be looking at Monster Lab, Nerf N-Strike (for now just out of curiousity, though it seems to be established), Sim city Creator, Face Breaker K.O. and any other games that open sub 10,000 but might climb up the ranks.

Face Breaker K.O. Party America sales

Week 1 - 3,063
Week 2 - 6,974
Week 3 - 14,522

Let me know if you find some other such games, I'll update them all as the numbers come out.

Some other sub 10,000 opening games I'll add are Guinness World Records: The Videogame for it's Euro sales

Region	Japan	America	Others	Total
Total Sales	0.00m	0.09m	0.17m	0.26m
Week 1	n/a	21,420	8,539	29,959
Week 2	n/a	27,924	18,507	46,431
Week 3	n/a	43,998	29,158	73,156
Week 4	n/a	n/a	49,755	49,755
Week 5	n/a	n/a	64,432	64,432

And The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon for American Sales

Region	Japan	America	Others	Total
Total Sales	0.00m	0.06m	0.03m	0.09m
Week 1	n/a	3,049	8,400	11,449
Week 2	n/a	4,324	11,280	15,604
Week 3	n/a	6,203	12,811	19,014
Week 4	n/a	7,165	n/a	7,165
Week 5	n/a	11,920	n/a	11,920
Week 6	n/a	26,673	n/a	26,673