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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vagabundo" data-source="post: 4538461" data-attributes="member: 55864">The reasons for good sales can be complex and good marketing can make a bad product sell for a while, but I believe sustained sales are a metric of market demand which can be certainly related to the quality of the product e.g. the Wii is selling like gangbusters and has sold more than any other console for the same launch period, even the PS2 and the reasons for it are very complex. The DS is also interesting as it wasn't doing that well until the revamp 'lite' came out, then it took off. Movies are a bit of a oddity as they are so short lived, they are very like traditional games and there is definably a fine art to marketing a movie. Things like brand, marketing, fashion, synergy can all help a bad quality product sell; but bad products don't generally continue to sell. However the reverse is certainly not true.</blockquote>