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Ninjahound101 on 10 November 2013
DucksUnlimited said:
Shortiloe said:

Funny, how People predict, it will only sell 120-150k. Even Pikmin 3 sold round abut 90-100k.

I say at least 350k.

You think it will have over at least a %30 attach ratio in just the first week? Granted, more Wii U hardware will be sold in Japan that week, but that's still pretty steep I think. Just for perspective, Sunshine did about 320k in Japan first week I believe and that was on a bigger install base.

I'd say more along the lines of 250k for this one, especially since it seems a little more casual targeted and less likely to be something that's preordered as much.

Considering Japanese gamersprefer casual Mario games over hard mario games(see 3D Land's reception for proof) 3D world could do 250-300K, sure 350K is still outragous but it might still be possible if it taps into the casual market



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DucksUnlimited on 10 November 2013
Ninjahound101 said:
DucksUnlimited said:
Shortiloe said:

Funny, how People predict, it will only sell 120-150k. Even Pikmin 3 sold round abut 90-100k.

I say at least 350k.

You think it will have over at least a %30 attach ratio in just the first week? Granted, more Wii U hardware will be sold in Japan that week, but that's still pretty steep I think. Just for perspective, Sunshine did about 320k in Japan first week I believe and that was on a bigger install base.

I'd say more along the lines of 250k for this one, especially since it seems a little more casual targeted and less likely to be something that's preordered as much.

Considering Japanese gamersprefer casual Mario games over hard mario games(see 3D Land's reception for proof) 3D world could do 250-300K, sure 350K is still outragous but it might still be possible if it taps into the casual market

Tapping into the casual market is going to help its long term success, not so much its first week.



TK14 on 10 November 2013

225k



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Flanneryaug on 10 November 2013

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Ninjahound101 on 10 November 2013
DucksUnlimited said:
Ninjahound101 said:
DucksUnlimited said:
Shortiloe said:

Funny, how People predict, it will only sell 120-150k. Even Pikmin 3 sold round abut 90-100k.

I say at least 350k.

You think it will have over at least a %30 attach ratio in just the first week? Granted, more Wii U hardware will be sold in Japan that week, but that's still pretty steep I think. Just for perspective, Sunshine did about 320k in Japan first week I believe and that was on a bigger install base.

I'd say more along the lines of 250k for this one, especially since it seems a little more casual targeted and less likely to be something that's preordered as much.

Considering Japanese gamersprefer casual Mario games over hard mario games(see 3D Land's reception for proof) 3D world could do 250-300K, sure 350K is still outragous but it might still be possible if it taps into the casual market

Tapping into the casual market is going to help its long term success, not so much its first week.

Yeah, i just assumed that Mario fans could do 270k or so and the casuals could give it a boost to 320K or so

it mostly boils to the score if the game gets a 39 or 40/40 it'll drag people who were planning to get it later to get it on launch week



bet with ash3336 he wins if Super Mario 3D World sells less than Mario Sunshine during the first three years, I win if 3D World outsells Sunshine's first 3 years. Loser get sig controlled for 3 months (punishment might change)

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Dulfite on 10 November 2013

If Wii Fit U can move over 70k units and make the Wii U sell roughly 40,000 (after it sold less than 3-4,000 the last few weeks) then I would imagine 3d world will be insane. 



cbarroso09 on 10 November 2013

I am not worry about first week, christmas is around the corner. People without a Wii U will wait until the end of the year to buy the console and the game. I will say around 500k using the 1.09m units sold on Japan so far.
Why: Simple, a Nintendo console without a Mario game is not a Nintendo console!



chakkra on 10 November 2013

180-200k



trestres on 10 November 2013

230k



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fabinou on 10 November 2013

Considering that Mario galaxy sold 260k first week with an install base of 3,7 millions of Wiis, I would say that SM3D will sold not more than 150k first week.
With a boost of 30 or 40k for the console