Why trust in a unkown guy on the Internet? Sorry Kevin but your point is invalid.

You can never rely on individuals to support the entire team, though.  I have to see a team work well together, before I start  having faith in a dev's ability.  The number of hotshots that have started dismal flops in the games industry is downright staggering.

MadWorld, I believe, is Platinum's first game to hit store shelves.  The reviews bode well for them, although the sales may possibly doom them to a Looking Glass/Irrational (so many great games I don't know where to begin) fate, somewhere down the road.  Flopping, ref orming, flopping, reforming... and in the end, finally saved by a big publisher recognizing their awesome talents, and willing to do some decent advertising (end result: BioShock).

However, while MadWorld is probably too gruesome for the typical Wii owner to even consider purchasing, I think Bayonetta has a lot of potential, and is placed well in its platform demographic.

Except these guys worked together for years and produced quality so it's not like they are ex talent mixed with another company's ex talent.

All that has changed is address and company name.

So there was never any reason to doubt them.

MadWorld is doing fine... It's beating Call of Duty: World at War and that recently crossed one million, will probably truck along to close to 2 million lifetime..

I know they're different genre's etc but really.. I mean it's also doubled No More Heroes first week so there's 700 - 800k lifetime in Americas confirmed right there!

well have to see if sales hold up the next couple of weeks (since most of the stock was sold out, it's hard to tell how many people wanted to get it but couldn't find a copy.)

Initial sales are exactly what I thought, and I'm pretty happy with them. Going to take some time for word to spread on the game...

See how the legs go

Why people still think that the first week of sales is the definitive week for Wii games? They don't saw the Boom Blox or Call of Duty numbers?

Because they are used to basing everything off of first-week numbers for Xbox 360 and PS3.

I would have liked to have seen more ... but I have not bought it yet. So I might be part of the problem. I spent this week's big spalsh on DK Barrel Blast (used) -- because I wanted to see how bad it really was. (My guess is that it would have been great on the GC).

Mike from Morgantown

For those who think that 57k is a failure, that is about 2k more than HAWX for Xbox 360 sold its first week.

While not quite as hyped, that game has received plenty of promotion.

Mike from Morgantown

Trying to offer some perspective.

I bet the sequel will sell better if they make it other with mutliplayer and online and fix the camera.