fooflexible on 07 November 2007
Me too, I was one of the people questioning the 1st day sales, because I'd swore it would have hit at the very least 500,000 for the first week. I did though think this not because I over estimated the Mario brand, but because of the so called 700,000 preorders the game received.
Prior to that I did wonder if the whole planetoid nature of this game would hurt it's sales, I see why casuals picked up NSMB for the DS but this looks far more complex then your classic mario experience and may have pushed casual gamers away from trying it.
I guess nonetheless 300,000 is a good first week and if the game has legs it could be another million seller in Japan. Now I still do expect more from Mario in the US so we'll have to see how next week goes.
