Erik Aston on 09 April 2007
First week numbers may be over 2 million, even 2.5 million... But what's interesting is if the game shows the unfathomable legs of NSMB or Pokemon. Those games did 100K+ for 13 and 15 straight weeks, respectively. Huge launch + DSWTF legs = 6 million sold.
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Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
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