EEDAR: No More Heroes 2 sold less than 30k in January

This is true, releasing it so close to Tatsunoko vs Capcom was a bad move; I'd have loved to check NMH2 out, but I've been dying for a good 2-D fighter so that's where my money went.

Not only Tatsunoko vs Capcom and Mass Effect but also Playstation exclusive MAG and on the heels of Bioshock 2. You had 360 owners buying ME2, PS3 owners buying MAG and sadly most Wii owners were buying NSMBW, Mario Kart, Wii Fit and Wii Play. I kind of expected lower numbers for tats vs caps but not this game. It should've done better.

As a Wii port to the PS3 it'd sell the same. Maybe if it was made from the ground up for the PS3 or 360 and people were expecting it, maybe then (and far from a certainty) it could've sold better.

So why don't you buy it on the Wii instead? There are obviously games you want on the system.

I wanna kiss you. (not really you ... but suzy kolber)

Aha. I know it's funny, but it was such an easy joke that I just had to type it xD

Btw, why is your name Tigre now? Odd, since the English spelling is tiger, tigre is a Portuguese word.

I know it's NOT funny --'

Tigre also means tiger in Italian, Spanish, French, etc....

Mass Effect 2 came out the same day, also only 5 days of sales. You were saying?

When you think about it, for an extremely niche title on a console not aimed at the "hardcore" with absolutely no marketing support or hype, 30k in 5 days is pretty damn impressive.

@Tigre

So now we're gonna compare everything to mass effect? Yes, it came out the same day, but of course a 360/PC Space RPG with tons of marketing and hype and a huge fanbase is going to sell better than a niche game on the wii (One where a lot of people didn't even like the original) They're in different leagues and don't deserve to be compared just because they launched on the same day.

It's a wii game, $50 MSRP

The developer doesn't keep 100% of the sales. Nintendo takes a big chuck , so does retailers and many more smaller bites goes to all the middle men who brought it to store selves.

What do developers actually get from a $50 sale, maybe $15? I expect, eventually, worldwide, this'll break even. Doesn't look like a smash hit though (and yes you can judge that much on the first five days).

Count me in as a Wii owner who didn't get it. No I wasn't playing some other game or whatever, it just didn't seem like my style of game. (Oh, and no I didn't really know it had been released, but I wasn't watching for it, so no surprise there.)

I have to say I don't entirely understand what developers are doing with 'hardcore' games for Wii; leaving aside Nintendo releases, and the kid games/shovelware, most of the high-profile Wii releases seem to be 'super violent over the top ridiculous macho killathon with toilet humour' (NMH 1, 2; Madworld; House of the Dead)...

You think of a 'normal', quality game which is maybe T rated, or at least M but not absolutely ridiculously violent... how many of those are there on Wii? I guess Conduit, but it was pretty so-so. Surely, but surely, developers would do better on Wii if they made games which can appeal to 'hardcore' fans (and the kind of drooling idiots who won't buy games if the title sounds a little bit girly), while still actually playable by 12-year-olds too. Kind of like Nintendo does with (console) Zelda games.

I mean, I have a Wii because I love Nintendo games. I'd *also* be happy to play games that are a little bit less 'suitable for everyone' than the average Nintendo game... but is it surprising that, as a Wii owner, my primary interest is *not* gorefests? If I liked that type of game wouldn't I have bought one of the other consoles (and probably be shouting racial insults at other players right now on my not-available-on-Wii headset, and for that matter the not-available-on-Wii full online service)?

Anecdotal evidence (I'm like this so everyone must be) is always bullshit and that's what I was just spouting... but it does seem at least a little bit likely that less-ultraviolent games would be a good bet.

Spot on, Sam.
I've personally been of the opinion for a while now that it's pretty much too late for third parties on the Wii. They failed to build an audience with their own material... so shooters and 'mature' action games probably are never going to hit big.

The one 'hardcore' audience that HAS been built up is the audience that buys Nintendo's first party games, like Mario, Zelda and Metroid. It's probably too late no matter what, considering how late in the console cycle it is... but I think if third parties are to have ANY chance of success at this point, they need to start making games that appeal to the people who bought Mario Galaxy and Zelda.

I think the biggest issue is that people don't trust the Wii many, theres been so many crappy shovelware games that a lot of gamers don't take non-Nintendo games seriously. Same thing for developers, they dont see enough examples of 3rd party games doing good (cause they havent made enough good ones) so they don't put much effort into their Wii games and its become an endless cycle.

The only way you could think that is if you never played the game and are just saying such from a 3rd person audience, or if you were pretty bad at the jobs that you were stuck doing "the minigames" longer than most of us have.

... and the gore is merely for a ridiculous effect, none of us really take it that seriously (well, some of us do, but whatever). Gore in NMH2 is not the same gore in Gears of War, two different things. One's more for humorous effect, guess which one that is.

That sounds like the way someone who's really bad at the game would describe it. Even if you hated the gameplay (of which minigames were a small portion), the style is undeniable.