2D Mario is in decline. Less than 42% sell-through for NSMB2

[JWeinCom]

snowdog said:

JWeinCom said:

So... I work in a game store. When we got Call of Duty MW3 in, we got literally thousands of copies in. We had a line to the front of the door for two days straight, but we only sold through about half of our stock. Sell through rate of about 50%

When Asura's Wrath came out, we received about 10 copies per system, and we sold out within two days. Sell through rate= 100%.

So using the same logic as TC, Call of Duty is on the decline, and is going to be taken down by Asura's Wrath. Of all the potential COD killers, I never saw this coming...

Can't believe it's taken 4 pages for someone to point out that the sell through percentage is meaningless.

It's the amount of unit sales that's important, and over 400K in two days is pretty good imo even before you think about taking the amount of digital sales into account. And the launch of NSMB 2 has also had a huge benefit in terms of 3DS and 3DS XL handhelds sold too. A 2D Mario is always a licence to print money for Nintendo - always has been, is now and always will be.

It's not really that sell through isn't useful info, it's just not a good measurement of overall popularity, and it's completely irrational to use it as a comparison between two games.  If NSMB 2 had a 90% sell through rate over the course of 2 days, all that would mean is that Nintendo is an incompetent company who failed to produce enough copies of the game.