First day sales in Japan (11/1)

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*~Onna76~* said:

Darc Requiem said:
Well like I said in my earlier post, its a disappointing number but i will wait until the weekly numbers are released before I make my final judgment. Shams made an excellent point about the first day of release being Thursday. If I am not mistaken, aren't the bulk of Japaneses software purchases made on Sunday?

 

I'm sorry, but what Shams is saying is nonsense. Every release in Japan is on a "Thursday" and we've seen in the past that first day sales mostly form about 70% of total sales. If this will be the case then Mario Galaxy won't sell more than 200.000-250.000. May I remind everyone Minna no Golf 5 sold 150.000 on day 1, 20.000 "more" than Mario Galaxy??

Thanks for the information Onna76! That seems to be correct, not to doubt you but I just checked a bunch of random games and they were indeed released on Thursdays systematically. So that puts these news in a new light, if the 130k number is correct.