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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!!!

The Japan week ends in Sunday.

Wii 2nd Dec: 2 days in the market
Wii U 8th Dec:  2 days in the market

Both are launched in the Saturday.



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This is probably enough to insure the Japanese industry has another growth year, i.e. 2012 > 2011 > 2010.



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Launch week aligned, so we have so far:

NA: 425k
Japan: 307k
Europe: ? (VGC has it as 178K)

~910K



So that should put it over one million lifetime.

Watch out, WonderSwan!

In all seriousness, thanks for finding these numbers Vinnie.



No sales reports so far include digital sales. Which is irritating given how they all note the "low software ratio".

But it's disingenuous to make such a statement with just physical retail data.



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~20% less than wii numbers globally. I wouldn't be surprised if there was just a big decline in their total numbers for the gen.



It's exciting to see these numbers coming in. Another good launch, I'm a little surprised NSMBU attach rate isn't over 60%, but 50% is good of course. Monster Hunter takes the role of NintendoLand elsewhere, as the bundled game.



haxxiy said:
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.



I didn't know that, thanks. Yeah, Japan is different. The Japanese do amazing stuff with very low sales expectations, yet in the West if the game sells below one million copies it bankrupts the studio. @veknoid: lol



Sounds ok. Not impressive, not bad either. Lets see how the next weeks evolve.



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Viper1 said:
No sales reports so far include digital sales. Which is irritating given how they all note the "low software ratio".

But it's disingenuous to make such a statement with just physical retail data.

Yeah I don't expect them to be huge or anything but they should still be a factor here.  

 

...a factor we can't see. : /



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