| Jo21 said: GTA4 got a 3 million lead. not sure if mk legs are big enough to over come that. |
I can't stress how much I hate this phrase and how dim-witted it sounds when spoken aloud, but my answer to that is:
Lol, Wut?
http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=Mario+Kart+Wii+-+Wii®2=All&game2=Grand+Theft+Auto+IV+-+PS3®3=All&game3=grand+theft+auto+iv+-+x360&weeks=52
The current weekly sales would put Mario Kart Wii above 10 million by the end of the year even without a Christmas boost.
(I used 165k X 16 weeks left [didn't include the current week as Americas sales are not added yet])
The current week sales for GTAIV combined would put it almost exactly 1 million above MKWii by the end of the year (no Christmas boost)
Now Christmas boosts generally don't keep the gap between 2 selling items the same, in fact the gap widens, which means MKWii will be less than 1 million behind GTAIV by the years end, personally I think it's going to be very close on which sells the most for 2008.
So a 3 million gap (actually it's 2.65 million as of the last completed week) is not much of a hill for Mario Kart (only 10 weeks ago that gap was 3.5 million btw)
Also bare in mind this analysis favoured GTAIV because I took out the holiday sales for both games and assumed they would both sell the same each wee for the next 16 weeks.... and while Mario Kart has shown the last 7 weeks it can consistantly sell between 160 and 170k without any obvious downward trend, GTAIV is shoing a downward trend... 7 weeks ago it was selling 85k, and it has slowly come down to 65k.
