Edouble24 on 02 November 2007
| naznatips said: Again, the problem isn't that SMG sales were disappointing. They are absolutely disappointing. The problem is that he said they bombed, which is unbelievably ignorant. Nintendogs sold under 100K first day in Japan and is at 1.07 million. It sold about 150K in America and is at 5.65 million. The lifetime sales of video games is in no way determined by their first day. |
The difference is that Nintendogs is a new franchise. New franchises don't tend to come flying out the gates with great sales because people don't know what it's about yet. Especially something completely different like Nintendogs or the Brain Games. People know what Mario is and what his games or all about.
While I agree that first day sales aren't enough to declare the game being a bomb(especially when they're at 130k) I don't think using Nintendogs as an example is a good idea. Maybe an old franchise that started off slow but picked up as time went by, and honestly I can't think of many in Japan.
