Hmm, Bioshock will have a full week and Metroid just one day? That will really throw off the comparison. I'd guess in their first FULL week...
Bioshock: 325k
Metroid: 150k
I think there is the potential for Prime 3 to outsell the original Prime, but I don't find it very likely. One guy here said if it doesn't do big numbers it proves the Wii hasn't attracted the "hardcore", but that is silly. Hardcore doesn't=big sales. Mainstream appeal=big sales. Only one of the last 3 home console Metroid games has sold over one million copies and that was the first Prime(which had 8 years of Metroid starvation and being a revolutionary game to drive it's sales). I think Super Metroid only did 400k+ and Prime 2 only did 700k+. Expecting huge numbers for a Metroid game usually gets you burned.
I went to a Wal-Mart Supercenter an hour ago to see if they had Prime 3, which they didn't. My friend that works there showed me that they already have Tiger Woods, yet no Metroid. He checked and said they had an "order for 10 copies", which doesn't sound like a lot considering the size of the store. No ads for Prime 3 that I've seen so far either. It seems very, very likely it will have sales south of 200k in it's first week.
"I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself."
