Hmmmm, manhattan Do you really believe Brain Age and Wii Fit are not selling to individual consumers through retail outlets?

If we are going to question the 'validity' of game sales, maybe EDGE or some such media outlet should do a study on the 'actual' size of the XBOX 360 install base - surely it has been 'inflated' by sales resulting from broken units - buyers who are unaware of the warranty, or buyers whose warranty has expired. I beleive you could do the same thing with PS2, espeially with the reissue.Or even the DSLite, I am sure many Origional DS 'doubled up' when it was released.

Bottom line - everyone and their dog could see HALO 3 coming out on 360 - and when it did. it was advetised heavily and sold very well.

No one or their dog saw Wii FIt coming when Wii was announced - not specificly Wii FIt, a $90 peripheal game, and when it launched, it was advertised heavily, and sold well.

What is wrong with creative and origional franchises doing as well or better as the handful of established blockbuster game titles that are released year in and year out? It is great that this title is now more important than Nintendo's traditional franchises - should they just have rehashed Gamecube franchise untill the end of time?

Let's see Rockstar accomplish that - let's see them develop an origonal game franchise that trumps the extremely frequent Grand Theft Auto sequels.....