Agnates said:

The Conduit was 350k months ago. You don't know if this will have better legs or not. The bias comment wasn't off-handed, it's a fact that we've already discussed here, and obvious due to specific things said in reviews, which got plenty facts about the game wrong just to have something negative to say. Ie, calling it all waggle and what not when the combat is far from that.

Well that isn't exactly bias, that is a poor attempt to play the game, laziness and all that.

Agnates said:

Either way, fooling yourself or not, the result is the same, a lower score than deserved, and even despite the score number, which may or may not be accurate regardless, words that paint a negative picture in ways that aren't true.

Ok, but do you think reviews matter much. The majority of wii owners are probably not looking at game sites every day. There have been many highly reviewed Wii games that still don't sell well like Little King's Story. I don't think internet hype would have helped this game much.

Ravenprose said:

Naming it Red Steel 2 was the kiss of death.

Yeah that was probably a bad idea.

Dvader said:

Red Steel 2 bombs:

The Wii-only and well-reviewed
samurai Western Red Steel 2 sold about 50,000 copies in the U.S. in its
first month of release, according to financial analyst Michael Pachter.
[UPDATE: Ubisoft comments.]

Ubisoft says:

UPDATE: A Ubisoft spokesperson confirmed the sales
figures but correctly pointed out that they are based on only a partial
month's performance, as Red Steel 2 was released on March 23, less than
half a month before NPD's March reporting period ended on April 3.
"Considering that the NPD sales only accounted for 12 days on the store
shelves and that NPD doesn't include all retailers we are looking
forward to a complete month of sales data to see where we stand.
"Considering that the NPD sales only accounted for 12 days on the store
shelves and that NPD doesn't include all retailers we are looking
forward to a complete month of sales data to see where we stand."

Dvader said:

Ravenprose said:

Naming it Red Steel 2 was the kiss of death.

Yeah that was probably a bad idea.

I agree with you guys. It was nothing like the first Red Steel. They should've started a brand new franchise.