I tried over last few years get exited about cricket, some of my english mates seem to be mad about it, i even went to a live games (both county, and england) still nothing. I understand it well, i see the skill , but it does seem boring.

But Wii seems to be a perfect console for a cricket game.

I'm happy for all you cricket-enthusiasts, but the linked article is a joke. Biggest selling sports-title in that year. Come on. This sport might be popular in some regions, but I doubt that pakistani or indians will buy wii's in the millions to play cricket.

Fifa 09 sold 0,64 million so far on the Wii worldwide and I doubt, that cricket will top that mark. I see it more selling in the region of NCAA Football 09 (0,12 million), but never more than 300k.

If I'm wrong, that's fair enough, because the more sports we get on the wii the better.

So how much do you guys think it will sell?

It will sell barely anything. FIFA 09 did sell 1m in the UK alone over Christmas, but I don't see this coming close. Previous entries don't have any sales data at all

Well they can have a dummy character mimicing a position according to where the bat is, so if you play a forward drive the dummy can put his foot forward, and if it's in line with the stumps and play&miss, could be adjudged lbw.

I'm kinda pulling at strings here.

@fmc83

I'd have to agree with you there, but I think combined it can sell millions (1-2) in the EU & Australia regions mainly to be optimistic. If the Wii version is done correctly I can see that figure reaching 3-4.

A bat is meant to be held with two hands...would be difficult to have the nunchuk in one hand for the bowler run up then suddenly drop it somewhere to bat properly..

I think they will use the EA sports active thing that you tie around your thigh as footwork. This is great news. All my friends wanted Wii Cricket. Does it release in Canada or only in UK?

@ ash, probably only UK and Australia

They brought "The Bigs" (Baseball) over to Europe, so why shouldn't they do the other way round. But yeah I wouldn't bet on it. Btw is South Africa counted in others or do they have both Americas-Wii and PAL

To my knowledge, Codemasters did not bring across their last cricket game, Brian Lara International Cricket 2007, so I doubt it will happen. I don't know how large a market for gaming SA is, but I think it is PAL. Like India, it is a large market for cricket, but gaming is still very small over there