Nintendo says 500k SMG sales in first week

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jjseth said:
Why stop at 500k if it sold more then that? I'm sure if it sold 600k they would have used that instead of the 500k number?

My guess is that it sold in the 500-540k range or they would have stated that at 560k that it sold nearly 600K units in the US alone.

When you are a publicly traded company like Nintendo, you release the best numbers you can because it could spur stock increases because of the successes. And if it were 750k like VGC predicted, Nintendo would have released a statement that SMG sold 3/4 of a million units. As a business it makes sense to give out the best numbers possible, not to low ball it.

 Nintendo is a traditional reserved company when it comes to numbers releases.  If this info is based on NPD data for the week then it is likely they would play it conservative as they always do.

 

With that said I agree that 550k or so seems to be a reasonable spot to put US sales and if you put the rest of the Americas at around 150k or so the VGC number isn't really that far off (less than 10%).