Erik Aston on 16 March 2007
Ouch for Sonic. Though that 80,000 is a lot better than 60,000... But 5K in Japan is awful... We'll have to see how it does in Europe. It'll have to do probably 700,000 to put 1 million back in the equation... But given the WW breakdown of Sonic Rush sales, that might not be as unrealistic as you think... Sonic Rush Japan: 60,000 Americas: 470,000 Europe: 960,000 Rayman on the other hand... Still looks on pace for 1 million I think... US sales up to 375K, and it could do another 40-50K in March...
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
