Erik Aston on 21 April 2007
Mario and DK 2 debuted with 90K last week. That should have clued people that Japan is not simply buying all things Mario.
The idea that SPM was going to do 1.8 million or some such number in Japan alone was always faulty. Still, the sales for SPM look solid. Of course everything in Japan falls pretty sharply, but SPM shouldn't have much problem following only slightly behind Zelda and Wario.
If that 150K first week in NA holds up, it shouldn't take the game long to reach 1 million WW.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
