Super Smash Bros Brawl sells over 1.25 million copies on day 1

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tombi123 said:

Fastrabbit09 said:

Bingoo said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

tombi123 said:
If you look at previous SSB installments you will find out that it hardly sells 1m lifetime in Europe (SSB 0.65M, SSBM 1.14M). Halo 3's record is safe... until FFXIII ;P

I doubt it. I predict that Brawl will easily sell 1m in others on week one.  Using historical data for Smash Brothers, as you know, will simply not do, if due to nothing else, the hype and review scores Brawl has recieved in america and the increased word of mouth from the Internet.

 

In my personal opinion, Brawl will likely outsell its American debut, in Others, and yea, I'm serious.

 

I predict that if Brawl breaks 2m in Americas this week, then Halo 3's record is gone, according to VGchartz numbers, at least. 

....pass whatever it is you are smoking...

what he's saying isn't outrageous....2mil in Americas + 1mil in Japan is only 800k away from Halo 3's record, with Others still to launch...it def is possible for Others to sell more than 800k in launch week

 Outrageous rounding FTW!!

The 1M in Japan is actually 843K, the Halo 3 record is 3.84M not 3.8M. This adds 200K to the Europe launch week, making it 1M. 2M was first week shipments, ioi in his first post said between 1.8-2M first week for NA. Meaning in Europe SSBB will have to have a launch week of 1-1.2M to equal Halo 3's first week. 

1.2M is more than SSBM sold lifetime in Europe and is about double what SSB sold lifetime. Also Europe is nowhere near as front loaded as either Japan or NA. Given that the SSB series has always been more popular in Japan, don't expect in your wildest dreams that SSBB will have a bigger launch week in Europe. Expect 400-600K.  

This will be interesting. From my anecdotal evidence, i could say that Brawl is the most hyped game ever around here, but that's just a small sample. In Europe the sales definately focus on legs, more than to the first week. Anyway, in behalf of big launch numbers, speak things like the big hype and larger installbase that where the previous SSB:s were launched and against, that the previous 2 sold only around 2M combined and Mario Kart will get its launch a little earlier. Brawl will outsell the previous SSB:s in LT sales in others as well as beat their launch sales, but will it sell enough to beat Halo 3 first week WW? It certainly is possible, but i would say unlikely.