I can't see that happening although i'd love to be wrong, just look at all the hype lbp got compared to it's launch numbers. word of mouth and Legs will be this games strength in sales just llike lbp.

p.s great user name btw, i'm desperately hooked on sf4 at the mo', the online is the most fun i've ever had on live pwning noob kens and akumas, lol.

Some of you guys are setting yourself up for a bruising. This game is going to be a slow burner. but it will burn. It will burn well.

300k first week in NA alone? If that happens I'll eat my hat..

It's on Wii, what that means is that it'll have nice long legs to carry it through the year and beyond but rarely do you see top heavy games on Wii.. I don't think MadWorld will be one of them either.. 50k in NA first week would be a big success for Platinum Games and would ensure lifetime sales of over 1 million. It'd also ensure a sequel!

40-50k max first week.

I work for a major retailer, actually the largest retailer in the world in the US, and we are the second highest volume store in my state.

Anyways, we got in about 6 copies on launch and only one sold. Looking at other stores they are selling about the same.

This game will sell well over time but won't be a big one at launch. The only guys who have better data then me work at Best Buy or Gamestop, they tend to sell more games on average especially Gamestop. Those guys would be slightly better judges. But I'm guessing 36kish.

Yes but your forgetting the fact that on N4g.com, Madworld is no.11 on the hype list. To me that looks like its got some great buzz going for it. Add to this the awesome reviews, better in most cases than even RE5, and its got the best opening week chance of any 3rd party title in forever.

http://www.n4g.com/games/TopGames.aspx

If the game gets 100k openning WW its going to be a good result, its a very stylised game that not everyone will enjoy, and buy especially at full price. About selling a million, i really dont know but the game will definately go above 500k

You should know by now that internet hype =/= sales..

House of the Dead had a fair amount of internet hype too, probably around half that of what MadWorld has at the moment and it sold 18k in NA first week.

So while I expect MadWorld to sell better than that, I don't think it'll sell above 50k, as I said, that would be a big success, It'll sell somewhere between 30 and 50k week one in NA I think..

I'd love to be wrong and for it to sell more but that's being realistic. It'll have really solid lifetime sales though.

EDIT: WOW look megaman79! According to your hype list MadWorld is beating the XBOX 360 version of Killzone 2 by one place! That must mean MadWorld will outsell it! How many sales would that bring in exactly? :P

You guys are getting way too ambitious on this one. This game will get at most 25-40k first week sales. It should have good legs, but it's not on the casual market's hot list.

Meh. It doesn't deserve a million IMO. I hope it does cross that mark though, just so we can see increased support by other devs/publishers.

No way in hell will this sell more than 50k first week. how many people want to play a black and white game in the year 2009?