| reverie said: I don't think Cooking Mama is the best 3rd party game on DS. The Others figure of 1.43 million might be too high. 505 Games (the European distributor) announced 1 million Cooking Mama games sold by Dec 2007. That figure included 3 different titles: Cooking Mama 1 and 2 on DS and Cooking Mama on Wii. http://www.lucidlan.com/article.php?id=721 http://www.gamespot.com/wii/puzzle/cookingmama2/news.html?sid=6183713 Going by this, I would estimate sales for the original Cooking Mama in Others at 800k max, which puts the total at no more than 1.8 million. |
According to the Gamespot article, they said the franchise hit 500k in August, then had just reached 1 million a few months later. That article was from Dec 6th. The article also stated that CM2 wouldn't be out in Europe until early 2008. CM2 had a very soft launch on America(just a few weeks before that article), and hardly sold anything in Japan. The Wii version, just like the original, has started off somewhat slowly(at least in America). I'm not saying the Others figure isn't too high, but I think it's probably closer than you may think. Considering the franchise had hit one million at the time of that article, and how Europeans love Mama, I think it's very plausible that CM sold a truckload during the holidays there.
I'm stoked that Mama is selling so well. Such a fun game to pick up and play. It's also good to see Taito have a hit on their hands.
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