he is comparing it to gaylo 3

Gee, another analyst with his head up his butt. Who'd a thunk it?



The only mistake Nintendo made was releasing this game when they did. You'll notice the releases have slowed down big time. There's a reason for that. Wait until AFTER Christmas and look at the sales again.



"biggest Wii release ever"

Who calls it that? It's just another Mario game. A good game I had fun playing but to date I've not heard a single person describe it as such.

I can see his point, 500.000 sales in the its first week is a bit on the low side.



Especially because its a major first party nintendo game and one of its main franchises.

Everyone has been saying how the Wii is for the family, for the non-gamers and such... so many families and "non-traditional gamers" have purchased the Wii.



So is it any surprise that a hard-core game is not selling as super-sonic speed?



I have purchased the game, but won't be playing it until Christmas - but from what I seen, it looks like a game for "gamers", not a game for non-gamers like Wii Sports & other similar games.

What requirements does a game need to fulfil to be called hard-core? Graphics ? Mature content? A serious plot? Mario does not fit into these categories really well doesn%u2019t it? Ok maybe the graphics pass with a push but compared to what we%u2019ve seen on the 360 and ps3 its basically nothing...



However, a game like Mario galaxy is nearly unrivalled to the amount of fun it can offer, the only game coming close to it right now based on the same genre and fun factor is Rachet and Clank. I remember the first day I spent on Mario 64 back in the days and I can honestly say it was one of the best times in gaming!



So I guess (for me at least) this game is not classified as hard-core but as an hell of a fun game to play over and over again..

"if a game franchise that has had over a billion people played"

Try using facts to generate opinions. You'll get farther in life.



1. So you hated the game? What does your opinion of the game have to do with its level of success? Either get a poll of at least 1 million users or don't except your single opinion to get you very far.



2. FF or any other game has absolutely nothing to do with Mario so any comparisons are rubbish.



3. You've made it very clear how much you hate Mario games and the Wii in general as well as the Gamecube. So why would anyone care what your opinion is? Obviously millions of people like it just fine.



500,000 in the first week doesn't mean a damn thing. Plus, it's not enough information. You have to figure sales versus supply. How many disks where available to consumers? Were there any copies left? I sure didn't wait in line nor did I pre-order. During that first week I couldn't find a single copy. I had to wait two weeks.



As for Halo 3? BS numbers! They added up ALL pre-sales. Plus there were MANY customers that had to WAIT for their copy because they didn't have enough to pass out to consumers. Not to mention Halo 3 had the LONGEST running pre-sale in the history of pre-sales!!!



Also, this article is a down right LIE!!!!!!!!!!!! !



SMG sold "OVER" 500,000 copies in the US and sold 250,585 copies in Japan!!! That's "OVER" 750,535 copies in the first week!!!!!



"The game sold more copies in its first week than any other game for Wii and any other Mario title in the history of the franchise"



More then any other Mario title!!!! I wish people would remove their head from their rear before posting!

Who think SMG is Hard core game. That game is as hard-core as table tennis. I don't think its an failure but its not for hard-core gamers.

i useto be a n.e.s fan but nintendo always disappointed me. i supported nintendo through thick and thin, through n64, gamecube and now wii era but im done with them. isohaven, if you actually read what i wrote and opened your brain, you would have understood my points. i have a wii, i hate all the games i have for the wii, have you played red steel? garbage, have you played zelda t,l,p, graphics sucks, it was better for gamecube and it was boring. i also have metroid prime 3 and though i like the controls, it was boring and sucked. if nintendo had a more powerful system and did super mario 3 remake with and allowed me to use the retro controller, would have sold more than s.m.g. isohaven, prior to s.m.g, i haven't played my wii since metroid 3 and before that, it was january. nintendo sucks and its for casual gamers who does support a systems life cycle. hardcore gamers support a systems life cycle. what will happen when killzone 2 is released, millions of people will buy the game and its a young franchise. nintendo will fail and i dont care cause i have real systems that i will support and not a gimmick system. the last good game nintendo will have for a good year and a half is super smash brothers and then nintendo will be selling like 10,000 systems a month. nintendo already is a failure.

people saying SMG is not hard-core probably think of halo or metal gear solid. mario has always been for the hardcore gamer. all mario games have made players play for hours on end, not small spurt such as "table tennis". and about sales, it should be on par to sell 3 million copies by year end, which will be it's biggest seller for a long time (unless smash outsells it, which is extremely considered a hard-core game)

For all the hype and pride of Nintendo fans with the $199 price tag and this is how game systems are supposed to be, there's ZERO representation on the software side.



If you guys were actually keen to do some research instead of whining and blindly defending your system, you'd notice how "soft" the software sales have been overall.



Nintendo fans don't have for example, all the "shooters" for their system like 360 fans do. Nor do they buy all the "rpgs" for their system like PS3 fans do. For some reason this whole casual gamer direction has created an empty shell with which developers and Nintendo as well can't count on a title being an overwhelming success.



But you see, you can be sure ALL 360 fanboys will buy almost every shooter released for their system whether it's a piece of crap or not. It doesn't require a leap of faith or logic I guess to see that Wii owners are not genre specific. They, in generalized terms, don't buy all the games that fit into one category.



And if you Wii kiddies didn't know, publishers count on genre specific gamers to sell their wares. And if Nintendo can't get millions of SMG units running out of the stores at launch, what kind of sales do you think 3rd parties are going to think they'll be getting for their new IP or multiplatform releases?



That analyst, as much as I detest them, is correct in his statement. In the big picture, SMG is a launch failure for Nintendo and could be an overall failure if sales don't pick up.



And since there's still a "shortage" of Wii units a year later (yeah right!), Nintendo isn't counting on new customers to buy Wii systems and copies of SMG either.

the wii has a gaming console will fail, do you guys know what a fad is. i was on the wii hype train and soon got off cause everyone on there was old people, fat chicks and blind fanboys. i like all these people but cant relate to them when it comes to games.



hot chicks dont have time for games cause they are busy looking pretty with make up and nice clothing. old people couldnt care less about hardware specifications of video game systems but play casually to relate with younger people which is why the wii sold a lot and cause its the cheapest with a gimmick controller. blind fanboys will say anything to justify their weak wii system cause they are fools.



over 1 billion people have experienced a mario game in 25 years and the latest mario game cant sell 1 million in 1 month = failure.



millions of people have experienced final fantasy in 20 years and when final fantasy 13 comes out it will sell more than a million in 1 week. mgs4 will sell more than a million in 1 month.



super mario galaxy is a failure, and if this icon of nintendo cant sell more than a million in 1 month, why would a 3rd party game do better. nintendo sold cause its another tickle me elmo toy, or those giga pet toys that once were selling a lot for a year but then went away as fast as i can say n.e.s sucks.



i have a wii, most of my friends have a wii, guess what? none of us plays the wii and plays the xbox 360 and the ps3. softwares on the wii are rubbish, at least 90 percent of them, and the rest are mimi games. wii fanboys are fooling themselves. the wii is a failure, i cant wait for white knight story, killzone 2, haze, gta 4, gt 5, mgs 4, g.o.w 3, eight days, la noire, resistance fall of man 2, the get away 3, ff13, ff versus, and many others. i will gladly buy all these games.



wii owners buys one or two games a year. casual gamers like old people only play wii sports. wii is a failure.

Nintendo is a great company everyone ows them some unforgetfull gaming experience (mine was Mario 64 and Goldneye) . They have taken a successfull turn for casual gamers and they failed BIG TIME with the true core gamers. I dont know how long this success will continue, but dont fool yourself into believing that it will continue like this for a long time..no way...



Being so loyal will only turn back at you. Instead try to realise what you are missing somewhere else...The best thing...buy all three consoles!I bought a ps3 and I have my brothers 360 to use when ever a good game comes out like Mass effect which is awesome. I had nes, snes and the N64 but the last 2 Nintendo systems including the Wii did not convince me at all...maybe in a couple of years...

Gamer dude Mario is a bad-ass, so he is hardcore.

mister no common sense likes to ignore facts as much as he makes them up.



He's blind and deluded.

"But you see, you can be sure ALL 360 fanboys will buy almost every shooter released for their system whether it's a piece of crap or not."

Interesting. Did you read that somewhere?



"That analyst, as much as I detest them, is correct in his statement."

Really? Interesting. So even though the article is a lie and MANY more then 500,000 units sold, that does what to these theories?



Yes, Halo 3 broke a record. And? It also caused the greatest amount of bad publicity then any other launch as well. Since Halo 3 broke a 1 week sales figure all of a sudden people ONLY NOW judge an entire system based on 1 weeks sales of a single game?



It's never been a problem before. Now it is? Media Monkeys!

"hot chicks dont have time for games cause they are busy looking pretty with make up and nice clothing."



HAHAHA!!!!!!!!! !!



You hear that ladies of the world! If you like games then you are GUARANTEED of NOT being HOT.



Like I said before, you are a joke. Everything in your post (aside from info of your friends) is nothing but unsubstantiated crap and lies.