First day sales in Japan (11/1)

[Lost tears of Kain]

Soriku said:

kuraobi said:
Actually there are several things to keep in mind about Mario Galaxy :
- Mario Games have huge legs
- Nintendo Games have a high First Day multiplicator
- Japanese become more and more casual, and the Wii and DS owners are more casual than average, they don't seem to want games absolutely on day one, except for FF and DQ
- Japan is definitely in a slow period, game sales will pick up during the month
- Since Christmas is next month, a lot of children may only buy the game for Christmas.
- The Wii's userbase in Japan is still less than 4M.

Still, 130K for the first day is quite disappointing, but these factors may explain it a bit. We'll have to wait a few weeks to really get an idea of Mario Galaxy's sales.
NSMB did 480k first week, but the user base was serveral times bigger, and the release date was better for big first day sales.

Hmmm... surprisingly FF does the opposite of Mario. It starts out really well, then dies. Not a painful death, pretty successful, but the game (sales) dies pretty quick. But ends up being good, just not thta great. Where on this occasion, Mario starts meh/OK/not that great, but ends surprisingly well.

I dont know, i think that it only ended good on FF 12, FF 10 sold like 10 million, thats HUGE. But your right on everything else, huge opening week (i heard FF 9 had like 30+ percent of its total sales in first 24 hours or something)

 

On topic: Japan is still dissapointing, at this point NO console is doing well there, the other two markets are extremely larger at the moment. Seems japan is handheld only at the moment