De Blob


First week sales - 23,083

Current LTD - 650,000 (approx.)



Call of Duty: World at War


First week sales - 62,049

Current LTD - 1,090,000 (approx.)


Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

First week sales - 67,436

Current LTD - 2,450,000 (approx.)


Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip


First week sales - 63,167

Current LTD - 1,140,000 (approx.)


Endless Ocean


First week sales - 46,531

Current LTD - 1,000,000 (approx.)


Wario Land: Shake It!

First week sales - 65,281

Current LTD - 590,000 (approx.)


The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return


First week sales - 48,090

Current LTD - 960,000 (approx.)


Boom Blox


First week sales - 57,951

Current LTD - 910,000 (approx.)



And a somewhat bigger example...

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games


First week sales - 264,949

Current LTD - 7,020,000 (approx.)


And these are just a few examples of the games that have gotten high sales due to "legs".

The point of this thread is to tell you ... This isn't an excuse. We've got a reason when we call "legs". It's not something we've made up, like some of you seem to think. Look at the numbers above and see just how staggering the difference between Opening Week and LTD are for some of them ... And when looking at CoD5 and Shaun White, you need to also take into account that these games have just been out for... 6 months, right? Legs will continue to pull them higher.

This is by no means saying that all Wii games are going to have legs. Not at all. Some drop very quickly, never to be seen again. But legs are a lot more prominent on the Wii than on most consoles, and anyone who ridicules Wii sales early on in the game's life should do well to remember that.

I'm happy that Wario land : Shake it! able to reach 500k milestone ,i think this game deserve more love. :[

Most definitely. It's a great game. I've been keeping a close eye on it's sales ever since it got released, and it's been climbing up slowly, but surely. I think it may be able to reach 750k when all is said and done.

Dang, Endless Ocean came out like what, a year ago? That thing has been crawling for ages and it's awesome to see it finally hit the 1 mil mark.

great man, very nice point

Looking at De Blob gives me big hope that MadWorld will reach at least 500k. Also, I just noticed that No More Heroes is at 400k! I'm actually pretty shocked by that, Suda must be doing a little jig right now.

Indeed, it's finally gone up from 390k to 400k :) I'm sure Suda is more than happy that No More Heroes actually was a mainstream success compared to his other games. Sure, it wasn't a blockbuster, but I'm sure it turned a very healthy profit since they started a sequel about 8 months after release of the original :D

Wow, I've probably seen it already, but it surprises me how much Boom Blox was adjusted. That and de Blob weren't assured as many sales as the other games on that list, so it's nice to see such high numbers. Hopefully this keeps up.

Very nice, thanks! Some games you listed did much better than I'd have thought.
Glad to see Shaun White do well - I have only played it for hald an hour or so, but it's definitely a quality effort by a third party.

Great job Majin! Wow I never thought Endless Ocean would reach that number :O

People will still complain about us Nintendians though hehe cool name for a new race ;)