Chill out everyone ;)
Firstly, the article may be saying "sold out in 50% of stores" - which is more than 50% total sold.
Secondly - 150k sales for day#1 is excellent for a PS3 title, and should get close to entire shipment for the week. Then again it IS a huge Sony title (2nd biggest?), and it is holiday time in Japan.
If this didn't do well, then nothing would on the PS3.
So its a solid start. We'll see how this affects hardware sales - be nice if PS3 sales could reach 30k for the week (or more?).
(its significantly over my "line in the sand" figure, so the danger has passed in my eyes...).
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Also waiting to see how the other titles (including MP8) does. Wii could have another 100k shipment this week. (just finished another game of MP8 here, and really enjoying it - getting better everytime we play it...).
Gesta Non Verba
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