| ryuzaki57 said: Hello Gamrconnect, VGC just said that Pokemon XY hit 5.5m over release. With the UK opening between 120 and 160K and only 400K preorders in the US, I fail to see the logic behind this figure, unless the Japanese bought 3 or 4 million. What do you think? |
You've answered your own question, I've bolded it for you. lol.
5.5 million is certainly possible.
Couple things you've got to bear in mind:
1) Digital game cards and eShop sales, which will account for a sizeable portion of sales, even though they won't be tracked here, and we'll only find out about it when either Iwata states figures at the quarterly briefing in a few weeks, or NoA boasts stats in next month's NPD numbers.
2) Pre-orders in no way equate to first-week sales. The vast majority of people do not pre-order, and further, pre-orders are heavily under-tracked for certain titles.
3) Japanese sales will make up likely more than half of the game's first week sales. So that's why first week numbers will be so large. It's primarily thanks to Japan, as the 3DS is the premier console over there and has been for well over a year now. However, come the Thanksgiving shopping season in the US and Europe, the western markets will begin to eat into Japan's share of sales of this game and others, and the US especially will account for a much larger proportion come the end of December. There'll be a thread about that I'm sure, come time.
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