Does not compute.

It's a physical object, like a credit card.

Obviously, you don't need them, just go to the e-shop and download the game. But this improves visibility.

nice! but I'm more interested in how much this game boosted the 3DS! hurry up Wednesday!

Really strong digital sales! I hopes this makes Nintendo start taking it seriously.

"Promise I'll be kind, but I won't stop until Japan is mine"

-Satoru Diwata, President of Nintendo.

I know, but unlike game cartridges it should be trivially easy to pump these out on an as-needed basis. Shoot, they can stockpile the crap out of these if they feel like it.

I know right. Look at this pic, there must be 30k copies this store alone

But if they sold out, it was because this number was a shock to everybody, even Nintendo.

Indeed they can but I don't think they anticipated to sell out of their intiial production run of the cards.

After these incredible numbers, how many 3DS will be sold this wednesday (Japan)? Anyone have a guess?

Hmm, true. I'm also surprised though that the initial shipment is so "low." Doesn't AC tend to have huge openings?