Super Mario Galaxy week one sales in Japan (it launches Nov 1, 2007)

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Sqrl said:

shams said:

tabsina said:
Out of interest shams, is that Japan or worldwide for the software sales?

If you mean the chart/link, its Japan only. Yes - NSMB is approaching the 5m sold - in Japan alone.

And my predictions are for Japan only. I think Galaxy could sell 4-5m WW by the end of '07.

 

Just curious, but what kind of legs do you think the game will have? Going by past Mario games and the simple mechanism of word of mouth my feeling is that SMG could redefine what it means to"have legs". And I honestly feel like I am stating that mildly. What say you?

NSMB is still selling 15k / week - regularly. Basically, people buy the console to play the game. I think Galaxy will end up similar. So not only will it drive Wii sales indefinitely, I think it will have similar legs. You may see it in the top 10/20 in 50-100 weeks time.

All this is assuming its as good as I hope/think. NSMB disappointed a lot of people (not sure how, I think its almost perfect) - so if Galaxy does even better, anything can happen.