Super Mario Galaxy bombs in Japan - only sells 130,000 on day 1

[OriGin]

Steve 3.2 said:

This is what I said three weeks ago:

"The new fan base Nintendo has picked up with the DS and Wii don't all rush out to buy a game on day one. Heck, first day sales for many Nintendo titles are low and then are huge by the end of the weekend.

I'm going to guess about 400k current Wii owners plus another 100K new Wii owners will help Galaxy debut at around 500K. But the game will sell well over the holiday period and total well over 1M by the end of November and will be between 1.5-2M by the end of the year. (A lot will depend on system supplies.)"

I'm going to hold fast with my prediction for the moment, though Galaxy does appear to be tracking a little more like Mario Party 8. (It too had first day sales around 100k+ and total first week sales of ~282K.)

 Bingo *

 

I just posted the same idealogy (without checking the figures) in the other thread.

 

Nintendo Wii fans and owners don't seem to follow typical buying patterns any more... so a game doing this number on first day is probably going to not post a great number, but Wii is different... it's strange.

 

That said, i think WiiFit will sell like fuckin crazy on the first day... WiiFit is more important to Japan than Galaxy.

 

Galaxy will without a doubt hands down sell better in the USA than any other area.