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

[johnsobas]

Louie said:

RolStoppable said:

Louie said:
Thx, RolStoppable


If Mario Party 8 really sells that good, we should really ask ourselves how good Nintendos games will do if they are released on a winning console.

Look at the DS to get an idea. I predict at least 5 Nintendo games on the Wii will sell 10m+ (that's 5 times as much 10m+ sellers as Sony had on the PS2)

That´s exactly my thought - if a (mediocre) game like Mario Party 8 sells the numbers it does in the US and Japan, what will happen to Nintendos biggest franchises? Will their sales explode to a NES/SNES level again?

It really seems we were all underestimating Nintendo... even the fans.

 

@Parokki: Yes, it is a good sign, you shouldn´t forget one thing though: If retailers pre-order 300k units of a game they don´t expect to sell out after the first two weeks (look at the hysteric about Dragon Quest Swords, they didn´t expect to sell out and they are going crazy now.) so if the game sells 300k copies after the first two weeks, there is little chance the game will sell in exceed of 1 million if it doesn´t show significant legs... we´ll have to see, but we should expect HSG to be successful at least.

actually DQS has a better chance than you think (won't reach a million but it can get up there) because it sold about 308k in the first 4 days, even during week 1 it was being fairly supply constrained, and in week 2 it had to have sold out. 

Usually games that sell about 300k will then sell about 140k the second week but DQS didn't have a chance to do that.