Madworld will sell nearly a mill.

I'm tired of people saying MW is a failure when there's little reason to think so. MW's sales is a story we've seen many times with the wii. Niche hardcore game comes out, no one buys it, it's proclaimed faiure, year later it's selling near a million and a sequel is on the way. Observe

Boobblox (today's total: 900k)

Week1 57k

Week2 50k

Week3 50k

Week4 36k

RE:UC (today's total: 1,260,000)

Week1 237k

Week2 113k

Week3 66k

Week4 65k

No More Heroes (today's total: 400k)

Week1 72k

Week2 43k

Week3 40k

Week4 20k

CoD:WaW (today's total: 1 mill)

Week1 62k

Week2 50k

Week3 84k

Week4 78k

HotD: 2&3 (today's total: 950k)

Week1 48k

Week2 48k

Week3 32k

Week4 35k

Madworld (today's total: 130k) (no record of Japanese sales and only partial EU sales)

Week1 60k

Week2 28k

Week3 21k

Week4 ??? (incomplete data)

(All numbers provided by VGcharts)

As you can see, there are many games that were slow starters on the wii. Wii games truely do have long legs. Now, the one game out of that list that did the best was RE:UC, but that's due to being tied to the Resident Evil franchise. The one game that is seemingly very similer to MW's early sales in NMH; the game that did the worst of them all. But keep in mind that MW has had TV ads where NMH did not. Also, a lot of MW's numbers are still missing, so it's not really fair to call it yet. Also keep in mind that NMH has a sequel on the way and SEGA showed interest in turning MW into a franchise.

I don't know why people were expecting MW to sell like gears of war its first month just because it has blood and is a hardcore game? If anything we should all know by now that on a nintendo console, only stuff like brain age, nintendogs, wiifit, and mario kart can pull those kind of numbers. Third party hardcore wii games start slow, but finish strong.

Surely the general concensus by now should be that "mature" Wii games are slow but steady sellers.

The argument has been made several times, but I appreciate your time and list.

Instead, though, I think the rest of this thread should be devoted to the freudian slip of "BoobBlox"

Because that was hilarious.

The argument has been made several times, but I appreciate your time and list.

Instead, though, I think the rest of this thread should be devoted to the freudian slip of "BoobBlox"

Because that was hilarious.

jmangafan

If there was a game called BoobBlox, I would buy it. Seriously.

Madworld has gotten off to a worse start than No More Heroes and that has only sold 400,000 copies. Not even half a million. How does that suggest Madworld will be a million seller? Granted Madworld is lacking Japanese and 'partial' European sales figures, but if the UK is already included in these European figures then don't expect those statistics to jump much higher when the whole of Europe is counted. The Wii sells miles better in the UK than anywhere else in Europe. That and did Madworld actually take off in Japan? Further more, how did House of the Dead 2 & 3 outsell No More Heroes?Raiko101

I guess because House of the Dead is an established IP that people recognise, and can buy for nostalgia, and No More Heroes looks like a bit of a risk.

Theres no way of telling how Madworld is gonna do. All we know is that Wii games have legs, so these early sales dont indicate much, and it could go either way.

I hate to be the pessimist here but that actually shows a pattern of Madworld sales slowing way before the other games.

The argument has been made several times, but I appreciate your time and list.

Instead, though, I think the rest of this thread should be devoted to the freudian slip of "BoobBlox"

Because that was hilarious.

jmangafan

Why did you put RE UC, and CoD WaW up there?

That just proves you wrong. (in those 2 cases- by the way the only 2 cases that have a million +)

Sure it follows the same path as No more heroes, but that only got 400k. Which isnt nearly a million.

It also follows Boom blox, but those are 2 completely different games.

And lastly it follows HoTD 2 & 3.

Hopefully the game sells well. Even though i do not plan on buying this game, i still hope it sells a lot to warrent a sequal, and to get similar games to come to the wii

The argument has been made several times, but I appreciate your time and list.

Instead, though, I think the rest of this thread should be devoted to the freudian slip of "BoobBlox"

Because that was hilarious.

[QUOTE="Raiko101"]Madworld has gotten off to a worse start than No More Heroes and that has only sold 400,000 copies. Not even half a million. How does that suggest Madworld will be a million seller? Granted Madworld is lacking Japanese and 'partial' European sales figures, but if the UK is already included in these European figures then don't expect those statistics to jump much higher when the whole of Europe is counted. The Wii sells miles better in the UK than anywhere else in Europe. That and did Madworld actually take off in Japan? Further more, how did House of the Dead 2 & 3 outsell No More Heroes?eveileb-ekam

I guess because House of the Dead is an established IP that people recognise, and can buy for nostalgia, and No More Heroes looks like a bit of a risk.

Theres no way of telling how Madworld is gonna do. All we know is that Wii games have legs, so these early sales dont indicate much, and it could go either way.

Some games on the Wii have legs, Nintendo games and some few third party games, but not many of them.