MTV recently interviewed Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo"s executive vice president of sales and marketing, about the disappointing sales of Wii Music. Wii Music sold around 65,000 copies in the first two weeks that it was available. By comparison, Wii Fit sold a far more respectable 687,000 copies in it"s first month of release. Dunaway considers Wii Music to be an "evergreen title", much in the same way Brain Training is, where sales will gradually increase as more and more people discover the game.
So, should Nintendo be concerned? No, according to Dunaway, who points out that Brain Training went on to sell 2.5 million copies and followed a similar pattern. Dunaway went on to say that she thinks that Wii Music will be harder to sell, as it"s different to what people expect from a music game. At the time of writing, Wii Music has an average score of 62 on Metacritic, so we"ll have to wait and see if Wii Music will grow to be as popular as Wii Fit or Brain Training, despite them both having much better reviews.