| ryuzaki57 said: Famitsu has Lightning Returns at 306K. Besides, LR sold 75% of its stock while Mario sold only 50%. Squareenix obviously didn't expect LR to sell as much as FFXIII-2. |
Shipments of a product do not indicate the manufacturer's expectations. They indicate what the *retailers* expected the game to sell. Square could've expected 3m units first week and that wouldn't change shipments one bit because the retailers order the games. The retailers decide how big the first shipment is. All Square Enix could do would be sort of a take-back-unsold-copies approach to increase shipments but why would they do that?
Oh and on topic: 3D Mario is like beating a dead horse now. The market rejects it again and again and yet Nintendo keeps rubbing it into people's faces. That's how to effectively burn up your business!
