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Soundwave on 30 November 2013
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zorg1000 said:
man-bear-pig said:
It'll do good considering the size of the Wii U userbase..but in raw numbers it'll look like a flop


in USA its first week sales are 80% of 3D Land and that game will be near 4m in USA by the end of the year. If it continues to sell 80% of 3D Land it will be about 3.2m by the end of 2015 in just USA.

It didnt do as well in Japan at 30% of 3D Land FW which will be about 2m by the end of the year. If it continues to sell 30% of 3D Land it will be about 600k by the end of 2015 in Japan.

We dont have Europe sales yet for 3D World but lets assume it does somewhere in between USA/Japan in relation to 3D Land so lets say it does 50% of 3D Land FW and continues to do so, by the end of 2015 it would be around 1.2m

By the end of 2015 its possible 3D World is at 5m in USA+Japan+Europe and when u add in the rest of the world then it would be around 5.5 million and continuing to sell decently for a few more years. Lifetime easily could be over Sunshine/Galaxy 2 if it continues to sell at a similar percentage of 3D Land sales.

It's not going to touch 3D Land/Galaxy level sales. I think Nintendo fans really need to become more realisitic with some of these expectations, they're border line ridiculous. 

I said it before many times, it's not fair to put this level of expectation on Mario 3D World, the Wii U hardware is a dud and has a ton of marketing and demographic problems, that's the problem. That's not EAD Tokyo's fault, they've been let down by incompetent management. 

If it can sell 4-5.5 million LTD that's great, considering what a disaster the Wii U is and the way Nintendo has mismanaged the Mario brand the last few years (you already get 1 1/2 Mario games with the system, you really think that does any favors for 3D World?).