Japan: Mario Party 8 Pre-orders now over 500k

[johnsobas]

Parokki said:
Ah, so there's retailer pre-orders and customers pre-orders. That explains the obscene numbers some games have been hyped with lately.

Of course even 300k retail pre-orders means 300k games on the shelf day 1, which is a good sign for a potential million seller, is it not?

no, not really.  Retailer preorders are usually about 60-70% of LTD sales depending on the legs of the game and how accurate the retailers are in predicting the demand.