Is there a chance great word of mouth can make Viewtiful Joe a big commercial hit?

[kabuki]

Due to the frothing demand for this fucking great game, we are temporarily out of stock. You should have placed your order earlier like the rest of America, you tool.
- Capcom

Viewtiful Joe kicks ass.

[Captain Vegetable]

Viewtiful Joe does, indeed, liberally kick copious amounts of ass, in good measure. [/Mensk]

[SpoDaddy]

This game owns me, and is quickly rocketing up my all time favorites list. Does anybody have any sales figures on the game so far? I need a sequel

[Adman]

Well hopefully it'll do well in Europe too. It's nice enough of Capcom to release the first one here (in a couple of weeks anyways) but if it's as good as people think, and it doesn't sell well here, Americans are gonna see a sequel and we won't, which could be a right pain in the arse for everyone who enjoys it here and doesn't like importing.

[Will]

I think it will do solidly since exclusive GC games are few and far between due to Nintendo spacing them out too much.

Besides I've seen a good amount of advertising in magazines, television(during Wrestling and the like), magazine coverage and I haven't seen any magazine or site give it a less than 'great' score.

*rant* I didn't get why EGM had another Mario re-release on GBA over Viewtiful Joe. I know SMB 3 is an awesome game, I have it in my all stars cart but VJ is newer, innovative and it really should get 'Game of the Month' over that. Get with the program guys.*end rant*

[MVS]

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/...ult/e040213.pdf

In overseas market, our lower-priced software achieved steady sales. However, highly expected titles such as “Viewtiful Joe” (for Nintendo GameCube) did not make sales as we expected during the quarter.

Gonna have to say 'No' on this one.

Though, apparently Official PlayStation 2 Magazine says that VJ is going to be ported to the PS2 soon, which can't hurt Capcom's sales any.

[Diff-chan]

They should've done that in the first place.

[Lordmrw]

it did 200, 000 and their still dissapointed? Oh well.

[Rocca]

For how good the game is, it should have gotten lucky and cracked a half mill based on hype.

[MechDeus]

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/...ult/e040213.pdf

The address is shortened improperly and thus doesn't work.

I do find it odd they're disappointed now when they sold out back during US launch. Hm.