1M min. 2M max.

The Mickey name will generate a lot of interest.

Mike from Morgantown

Ok, first let me say sorry for amy terminology errors such as LTD. In hindsight it makes no sense, though everyone seems to understand my meaning via context, which is the most important part of communication. Also, if my internet vernacular ie. Market the hell out of, puts you off I am sorry, I never knew I was still in English class.

More importantly Mickey's last adventure game sold 1.21M copies on the SNES which is not a bad number. I would argue that mickey is more popular now than back then due to Disney Tokyo and other disney projects in the past 15-20 years. Also Warren Spector is someone who seemingly has vision and is able to transform genre's successfully, at least critically. Finally I do believe that the games release period is beneficial, as the Wii has at least one large ladt christmas season left in my eyes.

Demotruk this isn't possible for you to win unless you set dow a timeframe

The thing about Windwaker though is it always looked good, the people that said it didn't just sucked.

Those Epic Mickey screens though, God, they just looked so bad.  I really have no idea why they would ever release those.

True, but it would be quite expectable for it to sell over a long time, and it's not even going to release for some months, so Soriku, let's say I win when it's reasonably clear it won't reach 2.25 million? ie. when we can both agree it's almost certainly not going to happen.

I actually don't think quality would matter THAT MUCH. Both Mario & Sonic Olympic games (summer and winter) did not receive good reviews and they are big sellers mainly because of the Mario & Sonic name. Hannah Montana game does not good review either and yet it sold 1.2 mil based on the Hannah Montana name. I think this game will sell based on Mickey name alone (and perhaps Mickey on the cover) regardless reviews, especially to the so called casual gamers. With Spector making the game, it's just the added bonus for the so called core gamers.

If de Blob can sell 750K on Wii and Brutal Legend can sell 850K in two month on HD twins, I don't see why Epic Mickey wouldn't clear 1 mil with Mickey's brand name. However, we'll have to wait and see on the 2.5 mil target.

Epic Mickey selling will depend on this question. "Have I played it before" and "hey this is like...". If it is the case where I have played Epic Mickey before. Then it will depend if people are bored of the game or want more of it.

Since the game play style is somewhat open to 2d platforming and 3d something i'm going to wait.

Did some hunting around and found, found some German site that had a presentation by W.S. that was about 30 minutes long. Sorry I can't remember the site but this was the impression I got:

First of all, you can definitely tell the animation is being helped along by Disney Animation and Pixar, because it's pretty damned impressive. Second, he was saying that they have a lot of the in-game work is looking more and more like the concept art, so it's definitely an ever evolving work in progress.

There's a lot of different groups involved with this and the game is one of the first parts of a company-wide push to bring take Mickey from being just a mascot back to a real and active character.

No way in hell is Disney going to let this game bomb.

I have faith it'll do well since Warren Spector's work has a few slots in my top 10 games of all time. Not to mention having some of the most innovative, best, and atmospheric games ever. I mean good god:
Wing Commander
Deus Ex
System Shock
Ultima
Thief

The guy's not afraid to mash different genres together or just create a new one if nothing available suits him.

Unfortunately my prediction powers suck, so I'm not going to throw out a number, but expect to find ads for this everywhere. Don't forget Disney isn't just Disney--it's ABC, Steve Jobs, Marvel, not to mention ads will probably show up all over in Disney stores and on DVDs and who knows what else.

Argh!! When will people stop calling 'lifetime' sales LTD. It's ticking me off! LTD means LIFE TO DATE and only applies to released games, meaning the number of copies sold from release until now. 'Lifetime' sales can be applied to future games, and refers to the total sales a game has sold or will sell, from release until it stops selling. Stop confusing the 2, people!

OT: Who knows, we know next to nothing about the game. Sure Mickey Mouse is a strong brand, but it's also a 3rd party Wii game, plus we don't know how big its appeal will be. It could be a hit, could also be a major bomb.

"New IP" NEW IP?

This is Mickey Mouse that we're talking about.