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theprof00 said:
they're all alts.

Alts of who though, that is the real question.



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The only person with the skill to post and several accounts at the rate they do is either darth or soriku.



its mario, what do you expect?



SONYSNO1Fanboy said:
Weird that he's picking a beef with a game that poses no threat to either side, i mean people who enjoy shooters will pick up cod, wii owners will purchase mario, no need for him to be starting a war over nothing.

He didn't pick a beef.  Jeff Keighley did.

Also, people are taking what they want to out of this instead of reading what's actually being said.  He didn't knock MW2's legs, he just said they won't be as sturdy as Mario's - which we can all say is a very safe and inevitable prediction.



Garnett said:

Well the first MW had Better guns, Better level designs, and it had incredible legs.

 

Unless its bundled NSMB wont have alot of legs.

Wow.



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theprof00 said:
mmmm I don't think it can sell even 7m by march.

Mario Kart Wii managed 6.35 million in it's first 15 weeks (Well 15 in PAL/JP and 13 in America)

That was:
1. On a smaller userbase
2. Not launched in the Christmas period
3. Supply constrained in some places

NSMBWii will be launching on double the userbase, during the best weeks of the year for big launches, supply is yet to be determined, but they don't have to pack the wheel in at least.

15 weeks takes us to the 1st of March, and will be 15 weeks in America and PAL regions, but 13 weeks in Japan (so similar to MK:Wii with 1 region 2 weeks later, except this time it's the smallest region later instead of the biggest)

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I haven't looked in depth at anything, but as a guesstimation, by the 1st of March:
NSMBWii - 8-10 million
MW2(360) - 8-9 million

For Reggie's "prediction" I think it will be a close bet (was it WW or USA only?... WW I think NSMB will just beat 360 version by the end of Jan, but not USA only)



It's going to be the predictable outcome. MW2 will continue to sell and while NSMBW is going to be popular, by itself it just can't do all of what they're hoping. So the Wii will be shamed and Nintendo will be made fun of for months, like usual.

And besides, the handheld version had the advantage of selling multiples per households, NSMBW as a console game in modern age won't have that.

If there is a Wii HD I think they should codename it Revenge(I'm just kidding).



Azelover said:

It's going to be the predictable outcome. MW2 will continue to sell and while NSMBW is going to be popular, by itself it just can't do all of what they're hoping. So the Wii will be shamed and Nintendo will be made fun of for months, like usual.

And besides, the handheld version had the advantage of selling multiples per households, NSMBW as a console game in modern age won't have that.

If there is a Wii HD I think they should codename it Revenge(I'm just kidding).

Pretty sure people didn't buy more than1 game per household if the household only had 1 DS in it.... so surely a better metric is the userbase of the two platforms.
And considering we are talking about early-on sales here, Wii has a far higher userbase now than DS did when NSMB released.



This post of mine shows a comparison of 1st years sales and userbases for NSMB and Mario Karts... it unfortunately is about a full years sales rather than the first couple of months, but it should show how easy it should be for NSMBWii to beat the early weeks of Mario Kart Wii.
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2793390



I bet MW2 outsells MW1 LTD.



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