Nov 29, 2007

Super Mario Galaxy's failure to sell in staggering numbers across Americahas led to the game being labelled a "b💯orderline failure" by research analyst Michael Comeau, and that Nintendo's biggest Wii game will be a "huge disappointment" if it doesn't sell more than 3 million copies before the end of the year.

We'll put aside our opinions that a) sweaty-🔯browed men in suits shouldn't talk about videogames, especially ones who can't make eye contact with the camera, and b) analysts can prove anything with numbers. Because we'd actually expect Galaxy to sell lik𝄹e crazy too. According to Comeau, it's all our fault.

Above: Mario Galaxy isn't shifting the big numbers expected of itin the US, apparently

. But the Wii gamers just 🦋aren't biting. Although, he does admit, Christmas presents will no doubt boost Galaxy sales. By about 5000%, we'd expect.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as ♐a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.