Reggie: Modern Warfare 2 may have trouble maintaining sales while NSMB Wii will sell consistently

Smacktard - 47 days 20 hours ago

I agree. MW2's sales will drop off by a ton fairly immediately, while NSMBWii will keep its long legs and sell very well for a very long time.

Still, I think that MW2 will probably have more lifetime sales.

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Valay - 47 days 19 hours ago

@ Smacktard - It's possible. Modern Warfare 2 is off to a good start already. Should be interested to see how Mario Bros. Wii sells in its first month.

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Madusha - 47 days 18 hours ago

I'm not too sure about that, Super Mario is a lot more famous due to how long the series has been running and the amount of games (Even flash online games) but the gameplay is very repetitive... but then again, the repetition also applies to Modern Warfare 2. :?

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FarEastOrient - 47 days 15 hours ago

I'm still going to try out Super Mario Brothers, yet didn't we ding both Sony and Microsoft for such arrogance.

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GrieverSoul - 47 days 12 hours ago

They will maintain constant sales due to their core audience.
People you like MW2 (like me) have been waiting for it. We knew the launch date and were counting the days for it to arrive. WII owners dont do that.

They will be like:
"Hey! Thats a new Mario game! We should get it!"

MW2 croud is more like:
"I already got it!"

The casual gamer buys a game by going to mall. Hardly they pre order or reserve a copy with such anticipation like the rest audience.

My 2 cents.

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El_Colombiano - 47 days 19 hours ago

Wow I loved Sunshine.

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TheBand1t - 47 days 19 hours ago

Sunshine was....okay for me. I just didn't like it as much as the others.

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Sarcasm - 47 days 12 hours ago

Haven't played a Super Mario game since new super marios on the DS. But most likely will play this one with my niece and nephew since it's 4 player co-op.

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FadeToBlack - 47 days 11 hours ago

I would love to play an updated remake of Mario 64 in HD with updated graphics.

Thats my favorite Mario game.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 47 days 18 hours ago

Already played NSMB.

It's ok.

As a long-time Mario fan...I'm very disappointed though. The reviews were making me think it would be AMAZING!!!

It's like what LBP would be like if they gave you maybe half of the story levels...and NO user-created content. So...not all that great.

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gamingisnotacrime - 47 days 18 hours ago

And the users have become very talented using the LBP tool, i played an amazing level that got me thinking how many games are released as full games and are so poorly develope, LBP community is producing some nice gems, Sony should made an effort to give the user content popularity in the " What is New" in the XMB, that would be sweet

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mastiffchild - 47 days 14 hours ago

Gaming...you COULDN'T be more right. I often play LBP with my lads online and some of the levels they'be made are cool for how old they are but some of the better ones these days are incredible and really go put the official ones a little in the shade.

It's part of the reasons behind why I still play UT3 with a bunch of mates every other tuesday. We choose a cools mod and import it to PS3 and have a vall. Had IW allowed the dedicated servers and mods like Epic and Sony did for that game(which in many ways is a flop I suppose)we could all have had some amazing experiences online with MW2 and it''s vast number of players, no? It adds to the game, gives it longer sales legs as well but IW just don't want DLC that we don't pay them for even if it DOES benefit them AND make their product perform and sell better. It's also partially why the 360 version of L4D isn't worth half of what the PC version is while we actually pay a lot more for it! Why MS and Valve won't allow it is beyond me and shows a lack of respect to us, their gamers imo.

As for Reggie-well in one way he's got a point but it won't outsell MW2 overall so why open his trap? Even hje only thinks it will outsell ONE or the other console versions!

Also agree with Leon there about SMBW-the fawning reviews are misleading and some of the more level headed ones written from a non "OMG 2D MAZZA! We're not worthy!" are more sensible, imo. Kotaku's is a joke, imo. Th levels, from what I'v playedd instore, are EASY and relatively dunbed down pastiches of former glories. Yeah, the bostalgia is cool and all but after a while you just wish it did something OF IT'S OWN and made better use of the relative gorsepower boost the Wii offers. The lack(IIRC) of a classic controller/GC pad option also wrankles with me as the waggle parts aren't that accurate and in a game like this that's really a little sad.

Don't get me wrong it's a good game, just not a great one and for a 2D Mario it's a bit easy, a bit too in awe of it's history, has dodgy motion controlled bits and playing with 4 is just too crowded and frustrated me after about 20 seconds. I sound like I'm being really hard on it but after so many fawning reviews I expected greatness and it's not there-it's not as good as it's DS cousin, imo, and while it's prolly a better game with two of you playing the lack of trad controls was a real downer for me. Just a rental I think, for me, and I'll wait to see how the 2D Sonic turns out-surely they're DUE a success, no?

Whatever, I just hope they do much better with DMG2 and they haven't rushed it. AND where's our Zelda? Don't they realise we know we haven't had one built FOR the Wii yet? They've had an age to do it considering it's going to be similar in style to TP, no? Plus that game was finished WELL before Wii launched so what exactly is the massive hold up?

I'm starting to get frustrated with Nintendo now and them failing to publish Fatal Frame 4 in the west didn't help when I'd veen looking forward to it for ages AND it actually looked like a GOOD Wii survival horror game. Bah!

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nirwanda - 47 days 12 hours ago

infinity want quick sales all at once so there are loads of people to sell them all DLC in a few months to give them even more paper to choke on in there office

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Feral Gamer - 47 days 17 hours ago

jleack said something very similar..... kinda fishy.

"Cool game, but I don't see the attraction. Little Big Planet provided far more content including level creation and character editing."

http://www.n4g.com/wii/News...

Both your names begin with J... Johnny and Jacob. Probably just a coincidence but I had to bring it up....

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mint royale - 47 days 12 hours ago

LMAO!!!!!!!!

Funniest thing i've heard in a long time!

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 47 days 9 hours ago

Thanks. Yeah...my name's Jacob. HOW DID YOU KNOW?!?!?!?

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mastiffchild - 47 days 14 hours ago

Not in software sales no. The sad thing is, Ifeel, that they've kept this too easy for just that reason. It should be a REAL challenge to complete the levels(and with a real controller FFS!-it's a2D Mario platformer, who wants motion there?)but the ones I've played were pi55 easy and I'm no great Mario player.

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