First day sales in Japan (11/1)

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BengaBenga said:
Opoona must be the most non-conventional game ever. Weird graphics, nunchuck only. Without a lot of advertising this was totally expected. Launching the same day as Galaxy might not have helped either.

Zack&Wiki didn't bomb, as Capcom was moderately happy with sales. The problem is we tend to focus a lot on Japan while only about 1/10 of the worldwide weekly console sales are from Japan (Wii 1/10th, 360 1/50, PS3 1/7). If we had good European data we could make way better assessments on whether a game bombed or not. Z&W will sell most in Europe (adventure loving country).
Opoona won't sell anywhere, not even on PS2.

Lets not forget about legs, and that we are coming into a holiday season.

Zak & Wiki will do just fine - I'll be surprised if it hasn't clocked up 250k sales WW by the start of '08.

Opoona I feel sorry for :( I gather its a reasonable game (no idea) - pity it wasn't a launch title, or have some time to itself. Hopefully it will sell 100k (min) WW, and ship double that number. I'd love to give it a rent.