By the way, that article you linked to is full of misconceptions and outright lies, TF. Just to clarify (although I doubt anyone is reading this thread):
"Whilst the sales weren't as high as I hoped, other titles for Wii aren't selling so well either," said No More Heroes director Goichi Suda in an interview with CVG last week.
I don't know what Suda is talking about. His game (No More Heroes) was never going to sell very well in Japan. Still, it's sold 30,000 copies so far over there, which is already triple what his previous game (Killer 7) sold LIFETIME in Japan - on Gamecube and PS2. That's a serious improvement right there. Now if No More Heroes bombs in America, he can start talking.
He went on to say, "Before I was making this game, I wasn't expecting that Wii would be a console targeted only for non-gamers. I expected more games for hardcore gamers. The reality is different to what I expected."
More misinformation. What are the top selling Wii games? Mario Galaxy is over 5m sales already; is Mario now something only played by "non-gamers"? Zelda Twilight Princess has sold 4.5m copies. Hmmm. Guitar Hero 3 and Resident Evil 4 are both over a million in sales by now. Metroid Prime 3 and Red Steel are also both million sellers. But I guess these are all casual games, right?
In 2006, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess did little more than induce yawns from Japanese gamers, and didn't sell as expected in the U.S.
This is simply wrong. Twilight Princess (4.46m) is just about to move ahead of Link to the Past (4.61m) on the list of top-selling Zelda games, into third place behind Ocarina of Time (7.60m) and the original game (6.51m). And that's not even including the 1.34m sales it did on the Gamecube as well (add those, and sales are nearing 6m overall!) You'd have to be crazy to argue that it "didn't sell as expected" from that data. The only accurate point is that the game didn't sell too well in Japan, although I'm not sure exactly what that proves, since many other Wii titles have done extremely well in Japan.
However, the possibility exists where some third-party Wii developers may grow impatient with failure, and ditch the platform altogether much like previous Nintendo systems.
Honestly, name a single high-profile Wii title from a third-party that "failed" to sell. I can't think of any. Most of the third party titles so far have been shovelware; the actual, real titles (like Mario and Sonic/Sega, Guitar Hero/RedOctane, Resident Evil 4/Capcom, Rayman and Red Steel/Ubisoft) have all been major successes. Even drek like MySims (800k) High School Musical (610k) and Carnival Games (600k) are selling WELL above expectations. Capcom publically said they were hoping for 400k sales from Resident Evil 4. Well, the game has sold 1.4m copies already!
How's that for breaking expectations?
I honestly don't care who "wins" the console wars, but I don't like it when misinformation and outright inaccuracies continue to get perpetuated. And there's no excuse not to see a Wii version of Civ Revolutions. None.
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