Thanks for posting the comparison numbers to illustrate your point.

I would like to interject a widely accepted phenomenon for Wii games though, that they sell slowly but typically have legs.

You picked some games that will have some serious legs, like Boom Blox, Endless Ocean, and Punch-Out, so I'll use those in my rebuttal.

Boom Blox looks to currently have sales of around 560,000. Endless Ocean has around 420,000. Does anyone doubt Punch-Out will sell 1.5-2 million in the next 2 years?

My point is that Nintendo platforms don't follow the typical pre-order rush that the 'HD' platforms do concerning sales. You won't find Halo 3 type sales number on the day of release for the Wii, but you can bet your bottom dollar that Mario Kart Wii will pass Halo 3 very soon in total sales, and it won't stop there.

If we're truly going to compare 1st week sales between the PS3 or X360 and the Wii, then we need to introduce a modifier or something to apply to the Wii games.

Thanks for the good discussion ;)

Munkeh - depending on factors, it would sound like inFamous has around a ~$21m budget + marketing costs. Given all the factors, it would sound like it needs to sell 1m copies to break even.

I would say probably only 750k-800k to literally break even, but 1m to be succesful, which it really should sell easily

"In comparison Infamous is Halo when it comes to hype"

But in comparison Halo is god when it comes to hype.

Why don't we just stop twisting things and call these games as they are.

Halo - godly hyped.

Those wii games - Minimally hyped amongst Wii owners but pretty hyped with Wii fans (if this makes sense to you)

Infamous - The hype didn't start rolling in till the game released. Before that the game was minimally hyped with threads popping up "Infamous is a ps3 exclusive why isn't it being hyped like one?"

1 million... srsly? LOL

@ axumblade,

That's my point. First week sales are really only particularly telling for PS3/X360 games, and not for Wii games. For a PS3 game, these early numbers don't impress.

Haven't seen the movie So it doesn't count! If my eyes and ears are closed and I cant see or hear it doesn't count. LA LA LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU!

No but in all honesty. These guys are making infamous out to be hyped up to be as big as MGS4, Killzone, LBP, and games of that sort. Which it was not.

did someone say infamous needs 1 million to break even {sigh}