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According to French website Gamekult, the Nintendo Wii U sold over 307k units in Japan in its launch week (2 days).

Much like the American release, the Wii U has an attach rate of 1.2. For comparison, the Wii sold 350k on launch week according to Media Create but had a better software attach rate compared to the below.

Furthermore, Super Mario Bros U sold over 160k, Monster Hunter 3 106K and Nintendo Land 67k. For other totals please see the below list:

Titre Support Ventes
1. New Super Mario Bros. U WiiU 160.140
2. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate WiiU 106.454
3. Nintendo Land WiiU 66.583
4. ZombiU WiiU 10.680
5. Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper WiiU 7.252
6. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 WiiU 4.951

Hardware launch comparison:

GameBoy Color: 155,774
NeoGeo Portable: 21,471
DreamCast: 101,490
WonderSwan: 102,655
PlayStation 2: 630,552
GameBoy Advance: 611,504
WonderSwan Color: 145,975
GameCube: 133,719
Xbox: 123,929
DS: 441,485
PSP: 166,074
Xbox 360: 62,135
PlayStation 3: 88,443
Wii: 371,936
3DS: 371,326
PlayStation Vita: 321,407
Wii U: 307,471



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The French site cites Enterbrain (Famitsu), so that's probably a legit set of figures unless there is a misquote.

Those figures look right too - if I was still doing the Preview I would have had 150k for NSMB Wii U and 100k for MH3.



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Software sales are kind of low, aren't they? The other games sold almost nothing then.



Seems like the Famitsu data.



Well, if true, that's quite a good number. Waiting for the "official" numbers.

Media Create Wii launch:

350,358

Media Create PS3 launch:

81,639

And for kicks, Media Create Xbox 360 launch:

43,970



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I wonder if they are including / attempting to include whatever volume of NSMB Wii U and others were sold digitally.



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LemonSlice said:
Software sales are kind of low, aren't they? The other games sold almost nothing then.


Look pretty good to me... usually at launch on Japan attach rates are below 1.



 

 

 

 

 

Where was the prediction thread? I saw people asking if they still thought the Wii U would do 400k but I don't know if that was a generalization from a couple people expecting it or if it was the general consensus that the Wii U would do close to 400k. After seeing pictures I figured it would do less than the Wii and 3DS with smaller lines.



spurgeonryan said:
In just two days! The Wii was for the entire week. Lets hope that the Wii U can be a bit higher. Some of those games should be a bit higher as well. so I can loosen my collar!!!

Wii launched on December 2nd in Japan which was a saturday, 2 days like the Wii U.



Zombi U in the top 5. Ubisoft should be pleased with its performance :)

This is greatly reassuring. We might see a similar pattern as with the 3DS when it comes to global distribution of sales it seems.



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