User blog comment:SimpleStar010/Operation Cherry Blossom/@comment-178.32.226.249-20110802235052/@comment-1758220-20110805041057

Another thing you can attribute to low(ish) sales is the fact that it's a hardcore game on Wii. That kind of thing tends to confuse people (at least over here). The Ironbeard commercials probably turned a lot of people away from it, not only because of its silly concept, but also because they showed a total of about 5 seconds of gameplay in the whole TV spot, so people just didn't understand what the game was all about. Despite this, roughly 700,000 copies in about 3 months isn't terrible. There have been American games that don't sell that well.