It is time for me to step in after the seeing the last two weeks of people ridiculing what could be considered one of this years best games Mario 3D World. Now I know that people are so use to ridiculing the WiiU but I hope you guys realize selling 300k in one week with a low install base and also considering it released the exact same day a little console called Xbox One came out, it did just fine. Oh yeah and didnt ps4 and Zelda Link Between Worlds just come out? I believe so.
Any ways that isn't my real point. Mario 3D World is actually at 700k in its first two weeks. Not that anybody ignores how well Nintendo games sale over time rather than on day one but ok then let's look at other Mario Games that has sold similar.
Super Mario Galaxy
Week 1 - 250k
Week 2 - 75k
Total Lifetime - 10.94m
Mario 3D Land
Week 1 - 340k
Week 2 - 90k
Total Lifetime - 8.79m
New Super Mario Bros U
Week 1 - 305k
Week 2 - 145k
Total Lifetime - 2.55m
Super Paper Mario
Week 1 - 165k
Week 2- 250k
Total Lifetime - 3.60m
New Super Mario Bros 2
Week 1 - 425k
Week 2 - 215k
Total Lifetime - 6.66m
So I say again how is this a flop? Because Knack can outsell Mario 3D World it in UK as a launch title with a heavy attatch ratio due to a lack of games? Well then ok.
