Sonic and the Secret Rings was not a futuristic racing game. This title is a poorman's attempt at capturing the Mario Kart Crowd, much like Mario and Sonic at the Olympics is trying to play off of the Mario Party and Wii Sports titles, they're cheap knockoffs.
Considering this title is getting no hype, no marketing, and its just after the holidays I don't think too many of those Wii owners are running out to the stores to buy this game.
The only example of a real racing game we have on the Wii is excite truck, which had much more going for it being launched during the holidays and it barely did 80k.
Granted the Wii has a larger install base but we're not really see that install base convert into massive software sales, especially for 3rd party titles.
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Sonic and the Secret Rings was not a futuristic racing game. This title is a poorman's attempt at capturing the Mario Kart Crowd, much like Mario and Sonic at the Olympics is trying to play off of the Mario Party and Wii Sports titles, they're cheap knockoffs.
Considering this title is getting no hype, no marketing, and its just after the holidays I don't think too many of those Wii owners are running out to the stores to buy this game.
The only example of a real racing game we have on the Wii is excite truck, which had much more going for it being launched during the holidays and it barely did 80k.
Granted the Wii has a larger install base but we're not really see that install base convert into massive software sales, especially for 3rd party titles.