Seriously, Nintendo is not THAT Important

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JWeinCom said:

O_o... so... we shouldn't count the sales because Nintendo sold it at the price they wanted to sell it at? 

Not sure how else to make it any clearer to you.

Japan sold 3.7m, elsewhere was bundled with every console.
Nintendo aggressively priced the game since it was included for free elsewhere
Nintendo aggressively advertised the game since it was receiving heavy media attention elsewhere (due to being included free)

You are taking A (japanese sales in the existing climate) and trying to use them to calculate B (US/EU sales in a different climate), without factoring in the effects climate B would have had on A.

It isn't rocket science.

Personally i think it would have ended around 16-20m worldwide had it not been so aggressively bundled.