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Anyone who believes that WiiFit + won't be a giant hit, needs to take off the tinfoil hat.



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Miss

The game is not advertised everywhere as it was with Wii fit.



If Wii Fit + is the same game with new content added to it why isn't it just considered Wii Fit similarly to how the Game of the Year edition are to games like Gears Of War?



hanafuda said:
Galaxy has barely scraped 1m in Japan, so no crushing defeat there. Also, fans of that thread will notice the MH3 bet I made with fkusumot in there. Wonder if he will cough up the 5000 Yen?

So anyone think Plus will outsell the original over time?

It depends on them not making another updated version or some other replacement. Fitness gaming is only getting started, but unlike Wii Fit, Wii Fit+ is entering a market with heavy competition. It's likely that Nintendo will have to regularly update the game, thus stifling the sales of earlier versions.



A game I'm developing with some friends:

www.xnagg.com/zombieasteroids/publish.htm

It is largely a technical exercise but feedback is appreciated.

There is definitely more competition now.

So the standard Wii Fit will no longer be sold?



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hanafuda said:
There is definitely more competition now.

So the standard Wii Fit will no longer be sold?

It'll drop off, with Wii Fit+ being only $10 more expensive it's close to redundant.



A game I'm developing with some friends:

www.xnagg.com/zombieasteroids/publish.htm

It is largely a technical exercise but feedback is appreciated.

Hit.

I can't see it selling less than 15 million when it's done.

I may eventually get it with the balance board for $50 or less sometime in the future on the internet.

and then I can try out some of my current games and games I will get later that support it.



hanafuda said:
@ Shams

He is posting from my legendary thread.

Funny, but I'd like to see his own figures for Plus.

In excess of 17 Million by the end of the generation.



I believe it is a replacement game (so when Wii Fit + comes out, the original Wii Fit will no longer be sold) and as such it will sell just like the original, but with a lower start. (so anyone wanting the balance board will need to buy WF+, then there will be the Wii Fit fanbase of which many will buy the standalone version of the game too)

10 million is pretty much guaranteed.... It should be pretty easy to pass the original Wii Fit.

If I am wrong and it is not a replacement then it is still unlikely to fail 10 million. but it will likely fall short of the original game.



WiiFit+ should have been the game that WiiFit was. Since as many have said a replacement I find it difficult that the primary consumer will pick this up since it's incremental. Nintendos own use of BOS says that people don't buy a product after it becomes good enough. So was WiiFit good enough?



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.