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Viktor on 11 October 2013
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tbone51 said:
forethought14 said:
tbone51 said:

I think your going overboard lol! 422k was wat it did in the best week of the year in sales (christmas) last year. 

497k is its best week in 2011 again with christmas week and had MK7+SM3DL+MH3G just released a week or 2 before!

Launch week was 330k! With MH4 it was 274k. Yea over 400k would be amazing! It doing 40-55k per week  on average(before mh4 came)!

 

I'm not going overboard because we're talking about Pokemon here. Pokemon will outsell all of those you've listed, and will cause a larger impact in hardware sales than those games ever could. I expect it to do over 400K, and I'm aiming at the high 400K's. You're the one who's going overboard by placing the hardware impact of those three games you listed in the same level as the hardware impact that Pokemon usually has. If it does less than 400K, then we go into OK territory. If it does less than 300K, then it's bad. 

I didn't want to do this but here...  Pokemon Diamond/Pearl boosted up DS sales with 276,839  week of release! MH4 cme out and 3ds had 270k. 

Under 250k= Bad

250-300k=So So

300k-350k=Good

350k-400k=Great

400k+= Amazing!

You cant say 300k is bad wen DS sold less than that with pokemon release


While yours are more reasonable than his, I must say that also your classification is rather on the high end. Over 200k would be really good even over 150k would be good.

People have to consider that 3DS had a great week in the MH4 week and since than sold over 100k units weekly, new big releases like Pokemon will help in pushing more systems but after several weeks of great sales the jump won´t be as high spiked in my opinion.

Also very important to  point out is that 3DS hardware has been supply constrained for weeks now so I reallyy doubt that they could suddenly ship 400k-600k units this week when they didn´t manage to ship 200k units the past few weeks.

 

My guess would be 290k and I think that is a very optimistic one from my part.