Usa Pre-order Chart, 17th March | Final Numbers: Resident Evil & Kid Icarus

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RolStoppable said:

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RolStoppable said:

spurgeonryan said:
Kid icarus is making me nervous. Hopefully 70,000 plus in states first week. Get the game demo at all gamestops and see how it does.

It's the wrong game on the wrong system. If it manages more than 500k lifetime (worldwide), then that will be very good already.

I doubt it. I can easily imagine it breaking a million, perhaps by the end of 2012. The reviews are good, people trust the Nintendo name, the 3DS market is growing, there isn't too much competition, and preorders are, if not great, at least decent.

I am pretty sure you could have said all the same things about Metroid Prime Hunters and Star Fox Command.

Metroid sold over 700,000, despite the DS's pathetic FPS fanbase. Star Fox had mediocre reviews and still sold half a million. Star Fox 64 3D has outsold it in half a year, and it was a remake! I think the market for shooters is bigger on the 3DS than the DS, and Uprising doubles as an Action game, another genre that seems to be doing well on the 3DS if Resident Evil and Pokemon Rumble Blast are anything to go by.

Except for Steel Diver, which is supposed to be a truly bad game, and Star Fox 64 3D, a remake, every Nintendo game for the 3DS so far is either a million seller or well on the way to such a number. Considering Kid Icarus's early reviews and the excitement I hear around the interwebs, it's hard for me not to imagine it doing very well.