Alpha, I haven't seen any indications so far as to how this game is doing. Overall, I think that the stock price might be much to high for a game like this that is basically a port. The fact that Ubisoft renamed a game that is over a year-old, then reselling it for a new system might hurt sales. It begs the question of why they didn't just at least create a new game in the series, even if they just re-used certain art assets but added a new story and some new mechanics, not just added new Wiimote stuff.
We will have to see when NPD releases it numbers in more than a month, in order to see sales for April, to determine whether this game has anything to stand on or whether it will be a huge shorting opportunity. I think it will sell around 500k copies, but it may surprise us depending on how many customers know it is a reselling of an older game.
@Laoldar, I noticed the same thing after I submitted some of the articles, images and videos for this game and the PSP version of the game. I refreshed the page and some of my and yours articles were bidded downward, which I thought was odd since i read both of our articles and they are good, if not worth upbidding, probably not worth downbidding either. As Alpha said, the new system of content bidding will hopefully decrease votes like those which we observed.
But it does use motion controls. Swinging the remote and nunchuck is how combat is handled (there's also using the remote for the camera, but the primary use is for combat).
That being said, I don't see this game making its price. Two Thrones on the PS2 couldn't even crack 1 million (shame, cause it is a rather enjoyable game) and I don't see this game going higher than about 250,000 to 300k, at most. The Resident Evil 4 re-release is probably going to sell a lot better, but I hope Ubisoft uses this as practise and bring the next PoP game to the Wii.
Yeah I think we've all noticed some seemingly random down bids. It is good that they increased the cost of bidding. Random bidding should hopefully be more of a drag.
As for the game, any indications on how well it has been selling so far? The reviews are pretty mediocre, and from the summary, it sounds unimpressive. The game doesn't even really utilize motion controls, so it isn't all that different from the Gamecube version that came out a year and a half ago.
However, the game may sell from brand name alone...but few poor quality games sell a million copies these days.
Huh, I just went and checked, I didn't seem to notice more than just a handful of articles from one user get down bid, and it wasn't even all of that person's submissions, would be useful if the person explained why they downbid them, all I can guess is maybe there was something they didn't like about those particular articles.
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Not happening. I wouldn't be surprised to see this game sell less than 200K.