I think we will be pleasantly suprised by MadWorld's sales.

Great joke dude. The World Cup this past summer was great!!!

it will pass 1 million

How'd that work for "The Spirit"?

Granted the Spirit sucked... but even if Madworld is good how will most people know?

proabley the only wii game i looking forward 2 also NMH2 but that cud be out 2010...

Probably not. Should be a good game, but 500,000 LTD will probably be a big stretch. Audience just isn't there.

Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition - 1.73 million

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - 1.49 million

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles - 1.32 million

Red Steel - 1.08 million

The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return - 0.92 million

Call of Duty 3 - 0.62 million (No Others numbers)

Call of Duty: World at War - 0.43 million (Will sell 1 million easily)

These say otherwise.

 Big brand names which are recognised in most households sell lots of Wii copies? No shit dude. Tell me though, how many of them are of a nishe art style the mass market has no interest in loving the art in the game and will just treat it like something such as God Hand and Okami, some of the studio's previous ventures, funnily enough.

 But yeah, Mad World is going to outsell Call of Duty and house of the Dead... right. It's has far more mass market appeal then those games 0_o.

Jammy, you're looking at several ports, side titles, etc.. Brand name helped but were also hindered but what I mentioned.

God Hand and Okami had very little advertising or retail acquisition. Claiming the audience isn't there makes no sense when the audience obviously is there.

Also, with regards to your referenced titles, are you telling me that even a console with a 130 million userbase doesn't have the audience for those titles? I can think of several titles with similar artistic flair that did sell very well. That tells me that there is certainly more aspects to the sales rate of a game tha just the artistic presentation such as what I posted further up this page.

 I think you're really overlooking how big a part brand name plays on Wii. I just find it hard to see a game like Mad World coming anywhere near the sales of a Resident Evil or Metroid or Call of Duty. I can't justify a reason it'll sell better, not one :/.

 Why would Mad World have more advertising then God Hand of Okami? CAuse you think it will? Why are retailers going to jump on getting it on their shelves? I see no reason for them to bother... Especially on the Wii market.

 I think if those titles struggle to sell on the PS2, it's because the games are just nishe, and won't sell no matter what the company tries to do otherwise. The audience just doesn't exsist, and in the fews cases you seem to think it does (Which I'm not sure on where you pulled them up from) it most likely got those sales from JApan? I can't see Japan investing into a game so focused around blood and violence, they could remove the blood but er, then whats left? :/.