Carl2291 said:
In Europe it released on a Friday and in America it released on a Sunday. Going by VGC tracking Weeks, Japan had 2 days of sales. Europe had 2 days. America had the 6 days. VGC tracking Weeks are Sunday to Saturday. A game released on Friday has 2 days of sales data for the Week, other than in Japan (where the tracking is to the Sunday). Combining all Week 1 totals for each game you get those figures. Dont hate me for it, hate on Nintendo's release schedules This should actually be irrelevant to everything though when you consider that Donkey Kong Country Returns outsold every single Pikmin game combined, with over a Million bananas to spare. That was the point of my post, that a game in the franchise the size of Pikmin actually had a better launch than Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze. It simply shouldnt be happening. |
I had a feeling something was off in those dates. Ah well.
But still, I don't see the problem really. Donkey Kong Country Returns released 4 years into Nintendo's most succesful console ever. To compare it to a series with all 3 titles on Nintendo's LEAST succesful platforms (Pikmin on GC and WiiU).
This is the first time DK has had to swing into a failing console during one of the worst release windows (Q1).
Considering all these factors, I'm not too alarmed by the numbers. I don't know if people were expecting 500k first week, cause that's ridicilous on a 5 million install base console.
