If Sven said so, then it's true. Bit said about it, we might never get the Zack and Wiki sequel...:(

Yes.

I think the "mythical legs" of Wii games is really just a myth when it comes to many hardcore third party games like this one. I can see price drops spurring sales but I've seen some Wii hardcore third party games in which the sales months down the line are listed as more than at launch. I can see this when a game is supply constrained or gets a massive amount of press (Wii Fit) but other games like Zack & Wiki it never made any sense.

@Viper1: So they did a $2 million advertising campaign in Japan?

Let's put that together with Mr. Svensson's other quote:

"Look at publicly listed publisher financials. Industry standard is a variable marketing spend of between 9-12% of forecasted gross sales."

This would point to expectations of around $20 million in Japan in terms of gross sales. So they were expecting 400,000 copies sold in Japan? WTF?

Given this and what narfwack said, I think Mr. Svensson's information is doubtful at best.

Why are people trying to suggest Sven would be lying or making up figures?

I don't get it, he works for Capcom, he has a fancy title to his name. Of course he has a good idea of all this stuff and most likely told us more then he should have ever been allowed to.

Do people think they've got a better idea of how well Zack and Wiki sold, how much money is made (or lost...) and everything else then Capcom's themselves or something? I seriously don't get it.

How accurate are VGChartz Okami PS2 sales?? Does anyone know if there were any NPD or Capcom information released on that game?

So Viewtiful Joe was a failure also? It's no wonder they won't make another one.

I still think the problem's with CAPCOM and not the IP. Fu**s**ts!

FYI -- A year ago, Christian said that Z&W shipped 300k worldwide.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/zack_amp_wiki/go/thread/view/7321/529111/Congratulations_on_300000_copies_of_ZampW_Sold


And other quotes (linked elsewhere) show Capcom talking about this as a success.

So the VGChartz data to that point makes sense: http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=America&game1=Zack+%26+Wiki%3A+Quest+for+Barbaros+Treasure+-+Wii&reg2=Japan&game2=Zack+%26+Wiki%3A+Quest+for+Barbaros+Treasure+-+Wii&reg3=Others&game3=Zack+%26+Wiki%3A+Quest+for+Barbaros+Treasure+-+Wii&weeks=100.

The difference may lie in how much it has sold since.

Again, I would love to see hard data from the publisher.

Mike from Morgantown

PS -- Is this the same person: http://www.edge-online.com/features/christian-svensson

because he denies capcoms own press releases on how much their games sold until it is shoved in his face?

Okami for PS2 only has Japan data on VGC. The Wii version only has America data.