We all knew that Mega Man 9 was a highly anticipated title, but it seems that Capcom's 8-bit retrogasm has been more than just a little bit successful, mercilessly smashing WiiWare records and accruing an almighty 60,000 downloads in just one day.
After going on sale in the Americas yesterday, Mega Man 9 has outsold all but six WiiWare games' lifetime sales totals, and will most likely leave the entire library in the dust as downloads continue. It's being suggested that after a full week of availability, the game will not only beat the sales of every other WiiWare title, but every single Virtual Console release as well.
Regardless of whether or not you're into Mega Man, this is very good news indeed. What this proves is that you can provide a traditional, challenging, very hardcore videogame in the modern world and have it succeed. Especially on the Wii of all places, this is encouraging stuff. Other publishers take note -- there is still a market for real games, and judging by these sales, the market is ravenous.
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5:42 PM on 09.23.2008
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Of course, if things go how the industry usually does, now that people have seen this success, in a year's time we'll be underneath a deluge of half-hearted, half-assed retro-style games, and everybody will be sad and blame Mega Man 9.
Have you used one of these:
Really a novelty system! Is that the new buzz word since people can't call the Wii a fad anymore so now its just a novelty. My god why can't people give credit where its deserved the game is selling great on the Wii because there are just as many hardcore gamers who own a Wii as casual gamers.
I'm sure the game will sell just fine on the PSN, and XBLA as well, but that doesn't take away from this being a huge deal for a WiiWare game to sell that well its first day. It's more then most of the big games on XBLA have done for day one sales!
Wii sucks. I think it's time for you to own that.
Shut the fuck up. Give one criteria aside from system specs in which the Wii is inferior to the other systems. I'm tired of "Wii suckslol" bullshit when by any way that people measure success (sales and market penetration being primary) the Wii dominates all of them.
on wii and on xbox live.
nmaybe even 3 times.
Also, that about matches the total sales for No More Heroes doesn't it?
so you're telling me there's at least 60,000 ravenous core gamers looking for a good time and has a Wii.
And, just think how much MM9 will sell across the board.
They have to smell the money in the water at this point.
On a related note, I need to buy WarioLand Shake it and sit on it. Vote with the wallet and all that :D
GOTY. I'm calling it right now.
when does this come out in Australia?
Now I know what real love feels like! MEGAMAN 9, I WANT A CHILD OF YOU!
Sure everybody here would love it, you guys love retro gaming so much.
now.
Where is my mega man x game that looks and sounds like the SNES games?
and for god sake do not make it the horrible 32-bit games like mega man x4 and ll games after that sucked balls.
You know capcom before mega man x games went over EMO and had a bunch of crappy anime FMV, that ironicly did not even have X in it that much and had even worse voice than in mega man 8, and then there is that horrible sprite animations. but at least the sprite animation was better than mega man zero that was even more ugly.
Does Fallout run your life? Quit being butthurt and get off the retro remake shit. That being said, can't wait to buy MM9 on 360.
@ PEICanada
The 360 sales will crush the Wiis. Also look at for Braid, CC and BC:R if you want to talk about sales.