Were we too quick to judge Tomodachi Life's sales in the west?

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ktay95 on 28 July 2014

After an opening week of just 24,140 and 16,646 in the US and Europe respectively many were quick to call it a failure over here. 7 weeks in now however the game continues to sell just as well each week sometimes even better and has almost surpassed 400k. If it keeps selling at this rate its not long before it breaks 500k and who knows how long it can go on for. Who knows, maybe even 1 million sales in the west is on the cards. Maybe more, what do you think??

USA First Ten Weeks (Units)

Week Ending	Week	Weekly	Change	Total
07th June 2014	1	24,140	N/A	24,140
14th June 2014	2	25,012	3.6%	49,152
21st June 2014	3	29,543	18.1%	78,695
28th June 2014	4	28,482	-3.6%	107,177
05th July 2014	5	25,228	-11.4%	132,405
12th July 2014	6	25,375	0.6%	157,780
19th July 2014	7	22,747	-10.4%	180,527

Europe First Ten Weeks (Units)

Week Ending	Week	Weekly	Change	Total
07th June 2014	1	16,646	N/A	16,646
14th June 2014	2	24,275	45.8%	40,921
21st June 2014	3	25,973	7.0%	66,894
28th June 2014	4	35,506	36.7%	102,400
05th July 2014	5	38,393	8.1%	140,793
12th July 2014	6	28,215	-26.5%	169,008
19th July 2014	7	23,449	-16.9%	192,457

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JWeinCom on 28 July 2014

Anyone with common sense would have figured out that this wasn't going to be a front loaded title. Gonna sell decently for quite a while. Might get to a million.

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tbone51 on 28 July 2014

Hell Yes! This includes Kirby in the States.

1 person in particular should be here and apologize

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tbone51 on 28 July 2014

JWeinCom said:
Anyone with common sense would have figured out that this wasn't going to be a front loaded title. Gonna sell decently for quite a while. Might get to a million.

Just might, no lower than 800k thats for sure, and digital sales are pretty good as well from wat we heard in NPD (i think 50-60k?)

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Darwinianevolution on 28 July 2014

Nice numbers. I hope other Japan-only franchises come to the West following Tomodachi (Youkai Watch, I'm WATCHING you. Ba dum tas?)

You know it deserves the GOTY.

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Darwinianevolution said:
Nice numbers. I hope other Japan-only franchises come to the West following Tomodachi (Youkai Watch, I'm WATCHING you. Ba dum tas?)

Hah, we are all waiting on Youkai Watch... still waiting... seriously do they release 1 or 2 here first now.

I pressume they are waiting for the show to air here first.

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burninmylight on 28 July 2014

ktay95 said:

Darwinianevolution said:
Nice numbers. I hope other Japan-only franchises come to the West following Tomodachi (Youkai Watch, I'm WATCHING you. Ba dum tas?)

Hah, we are all waiting on Youkai Watch... still waiting... seriously do they release 1 or 2 here first now.

I pressume they are waiting for the show to air here first.

That would be the smart thing to do. I'd like for Fatal Frame to come stateside for those who want to play it (I'm too much of a wuss myself). I'm also not really into games like TL and Animal Crossing, but I wish for their success to give Nintendo more confidence in bringing over more niche games.