After this week's  sales come in (unless there is a readjustment), Call of Duty: World at War on the Wii will have sold 1 million copies. Despite not selling as much as its PS360 counterparts, the game has exceeded sales expectations of many people,and has excelled despite the angst of many haters.

I didn't think it would do this well this quickly, but it proved me wrong. It was advertised, which proves to be a GOOD thing in the eyes of unbeknownst consumers.

It is evident of the audience on the Wii that wants some shooters!

Not bad, considering the last entry in the franchise on the Wii completely and utterly sucked.

hopefully wii will get modern warfare 2 now

Given that it's sold a fraction on double the user base it's not really that brag worthy. All this shows is that the audience for this kind of game is drastically smaller than on the other consoles, and the % of wii owners interested in this sort of game is even more drastic compared to the other consoles.

An audience exists? Yes, but if the team that made WAW on wii had instead been split up and put making two much cheaper family party games would they have profited more? I think that is the real question the publishers will be looking at.

QFT.

Still, a million sold is a great and respectable number for any game to achieve.

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What you have just said addresses this lingering stigma that everything that glitters party is gold. There can only be so many games that address the exact same consumers (without much "loyalty" mind you) before the market gets saturated. You could argue that this hasn't affected FPS sales on the 360 or something, but those are purchased by a different breed of player.

The reason we see so many games of the same kind on Wii shelves is because they aren't selling, so they will stay there, until somebody buys the thing.

We can also go back and forth talking about how this game was already cripled by its lack of features in comparison to the PS360, multiplatorm sales loss, and the fact that the Wii did not have the established (I think 9 million?) userbase of COD4 owners.

I got this and need for speed undercover for the wii and not my xbox 360 because of the motion controls. it seemed for fun to play the same game with slightly lower resolution but with awesome motion controls. i was correct.

I think this is the first M-rated game to sell a million on Wii. Correct me if I'm wrong.

But i thought Wii was a kiddie console :'(