First day sales in Japan (11/1)

[nintendo_fanboy]

*~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??

Of course you are right Onna that all games are released on Thursdays in Japan, but shams is also right. Remember when Mario Party and Everybody's Golf released on the same day? They were almost equaly on day one, but Party did far better over the weekend making it win the week easily. There are some games that have way better multipliers over the weekend then others, and especially the Nintendo games belong into this category.

 That being said, I'm still disappointed by those sales. I think it will sell its 10 million worldwide in the end anyway, but I hoped for better starting numbers.