5.5m WW opening for Pokemon XY. Is that possible? Ninty says NO

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pezus said:

ioi said:

JWeinCom said:
I work retail gaming. We had 8 preorders for Pokemon X, and 5 for Y. We easily sold through 100 copies of the two games. Nintendo is very non aggressive when it comes to pushing preorders, and they have a large amount of younger fans who may not preorder. There are often no incentives to preorder their games unless you're legitimately concerned about them not having copies. So, yeah. It's not hard to imagine a 3,4, or even 5:1 ration from preorder to sale, especially if that includes digital sales.

Correct, people don't generally pre-order a title like Pokemon (or most Nintendo games for that matter). X and Y sold well over 1.5 million in one day in the USA.

What about Europe? Something like 1.5-2m in USA would mean it had to sell ~1m in Europe. And did MC/Famitsu release numbers for Japan yet or is this just your own estimate?

UK is 110k - 180k, and the 3DS is over 20% of 3DS' Europe userbase. By that extrapolation perhaps 500k - 900k~