the turtles game probably should have done better. Honestly, if i wasn't on vgchartz i wouldn't have known it existed though. Turtles has the potential to sell well on wii, but it's not as simple as just releasing the game.

That and... so many of the characters weren't.... well Ninja Turtles.  I was hyped for the game, but then it came out missing a ton of my favorites...

So i passed.

As long as UbiSoft actually *promote* the game, I think it will do ok. RedSteel 1 sold a lot of copies, so its a well known IP. And it looks great - its an easy purchase for me.

The only thing that would really damage sales, is if RS2 gets *really* bad reviews.

 Sequels haven't typically resonated with the Wii userbase - Ubisoft themselves were stung by the follow up to Shaun Whites. I know in that case they completely ****ed up making the sequel worthy of a purchase, but for it to bomb that hard is hard to swallow. They'll know what happend to Boom Blox, HOTD, NERF etc.

 And yeah, it is bundled with WM+ but that'll put it's retail price up, which isn't going to spur sales imo. To me it feels like we're past the WM+ hype, Wii Sports Resort has come and gone and now it's all about NSMBW. I think it's lack of multiplayer is going to hurt it most anyway, I swear everyone bought the original cause they dreamed it'd be like Goldeneye 64.

The one responsible for advertising is the actual publisher of the game. That publisher is Ubisoft itself. Nintendo has nothing to do with it at all unless it was the publisher or they had agreed to take over duties the way they have for Monster Hunter 3. It's not Nintendo's fault if the game doesn't get advertised. We need to look at the words (not directed at you but for many in general we need to look at this).

transitive verb 1 a : to make generally known b : to make public announcement of
2 a : to disseminate to the public b : to produce or release for distribution; specifically : print 2c c : to issue the work of (an author)

It seems to me that many of these companies are only doing the "distribution"aspect of the word while ignoring the rest of the meaning. This most certainly isn't the job of Nintendo when it comes to 3rd party games.

It might not be sequels in general but the type of sequels. Yearly sequels might not be a good thing as there isn't much change between them. That worked in the past but to be honest I never understand how people were tricked into that. However more then enough time has passed since Red Steel 1 and the RS2 is different enough to feel like a completely new game it seems and not just a repackaging of the last game with only one or two changes like most sequels.

Regardless of actual quality, I'm pretty sure the NerdCore reviewers will make that happen.

I can already guess the RS2 reviews - game is too short, not enough replayability, no multiplayer, not enough variety, and as the cherry at the top - those who never get along with the Wii anyway will say the controls are meh. That's what the reviews will say, mark my words. Personally I am not interested as it is a FPS and I have decided I don't want any more of those in my life (I don't consider Trilogy to be a FPS but a First Person adventure), but had I liked FPS I would certainly have gotten this game, from all I've seen (until they've stopped releasing info about it) it looks great, not to mention the Motion Plus swordplay...

OT: I think they did the right thing cutting sales projections, though if that means cutting on advertising then that will be a mistake. At the time, when I saw (before its release) Capcom's RE:DC FY projections of 800,000 I did a double take and asked myself whether they were living in the real world...

What we know right off the bat:

No splitscreen multiplayer after the original had it, dock points.

That means no online either, which "should be standard in every FPS"

Cel-shaded look, dock points

My favorite, Wii doesn't do FPS games well, dock a load of points

If the game is not longer than 10 hours, it is in serious trouble. Some level-headed reviewers might actually review it for what it is, but not too many. Based on those faults above, it might get an 8.2 maximum avg. I'm really expecting a (72) aggregate score...

You're being far to generous SaviorX to these reviewers.