I think you fail to realise that games like Okami, No More Heroes, and Madworld cost little money, cater only to certain group of gamers because they are very niche and they  wouldnt sell better on 360 or PS3 or PS2, just look at the sales of Okami on PS2. Hell look at big third party effort like Prince of Persia which did not break a milion on Either PS3 or 360, because it has cell shaded visuals.

Okami , Madworld have nothing in common with Gears and Halo which are targeted at hardcore/mainstream/casual owners (basically all of them) of the 360, and have great hype, budget and advertising behind them.

When a 3rd party studio decides to put loads of money, effort and create a game in a popular genre that appeal to wide audience (WRPG, Shooter, Racing) on the Wii , then the game will sell, show me a game like that that bombed and then we can talk about Wii games not selling, for example if MH III does poorly in Japan.

About lack of M games on the Wii, i personally do not need too much of them, im happy playing mario over gears.

ps. And about Sonic and Mario on the Olympic games i personally think it is a great game, you should give it a go with friends or family , absolute blast.

MAdworld may not have as much marketing, but saying it wasn't in the company plan is just plain naive. The same can be said for NMH2 and Muramasa, Plus development cost for the wii is cheaper than say the PS3 so that "requirement" is hollow as well.

Thanks Voltaire for getting my point. I never said the upcoming 3rd party games like Muramasa, Ar Rise Fantasia, Overlord, etc were bad games. I'm saying big as in the sense of hype and budget. Wii isn't getting them, it will some day in Japan, there's some coming up, but Western devs have given it's back to the Wii when it comes to big core games. We have Guitar Hero, sport titles, but not a big gamers game.

You Fossil are putting words in my mouth that I never said. Whenever/if a western dev puts a huge core game on the Wii I'll be proven wrong. Until then I'm correct with my statements.

Game is top-seller on game.co.uk, 8th on amazon.co.uk

I hope it stays there for a while.

Who cares about mass media hype? The people you seem to want to play these games are they same people who saw the american Godzilla, the transformers movie,  play the madden games and backed out on the PS brand when they saw the price tag: They aren't gamers, their nothing more than puppets to be maniplulated by by a larger force by way of hyberbole, as Nintendo has been displaying for the past 3 years. If all you care about is sale just put down your controller and think about how much video games mean to you.

50k is great for a wii game, especially a third party, I expect this game to have great legs, will end up making it to a million or more!

Yes. It is exactly what you said.

Nice way to derail a conversation Fossil, very much appreciated. We are talking about sales here, have you even read the OP before posting?

Why yes I have, in the last 50 threads exactly like this. Actually I'm just having fun now, you sales-mongers are so fun to play with.

i was just emphasizing smartass, hence why I didn't even realize I said it. Still doesn't change the fact that the library doesn't compare. So go get laid or something. Grom