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JTurner82 on 30 November 2011
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Rath said:
JTurner82 said:
mike_intellivision said:
I wonder what some people want.

Zelda sets record for quickest to half a million -- yet people here are saying it sold poorly.

I guess that's the Internet for you.

Mike from Morgantown


People will say outrageous things like that just because they can.  I seriously don't see anything bad about this news.  Skyward Sword is anything but a bomb; if anything, it's on its way to being a bonafide hit.  I think people were expecting WAY too much; this is nonetheless a very solid opening number.  Its Japanese launch numbers are smaller, but nowhere near bomb territory; at least over there it still sold 165k.  Considering that many other Wii games have fared far worse, I'd say Skyward Sword got lucky.  Anyone declaring it a bomb and a poor sales performance must be absolutely insane.

People were basing their expectations on this

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88517/usa-preorders-chart-19-november-2011-skyward-sword-wwe-12/

As such compared to expectations it has done rather poorly, what was expected was more around the million mark.

More like SOME expectations.  I doubt Nintendo is disappointed or thinks the game has done badly, because as far as I'm concerned, the opposite is true.  And besides, Zelda games have legs anyway.