Mario Kart 8 sells 1.2 million over first weekend

[Nirvana_Nut85]

BeElite said:

Nirvana_Nut85 said:

BeElite said:
On one side best for wiiu and impressive yet at same time extremely low for what is likely the biggest franchise and biggest release U is going to get. Call me crazy but this is the Halo Uncharted from Ninty for wiiu. If either of those hit such a number in such a time, impressive it would not be. All a matter of which perspective you roll with.

If Halo and Uncharted were released when there was a mere 6 Million consoles sold for each respective platform and they managed to reach 1.2 million in 2 days of availability, then yes, that would be impressive. 

Article says 4 days for Kart, and if either one of them dropped tommorow and did that it be a major disspointment on here. Espcially when a low end ps ip like Infamous does 1m in 9 days.  By the way is the 1.2m shipped or sold to customers ?, because UC3 shipped 3.8m units day one so next Uncharted doing 1.2m in 4 days would not be impressive to me given the current strength of the franchise. 

The article is incorrect. 3 days of sales in Japan, 2 days in N.A and E.U. Sales data ends Saturday as Sunday is considered the first day of the week.

You are forgetting about the size of the install base when Uncharted 3 was released.  Uncharted 3  1.35 million sold to a consumer base of 55 million people. That is a drastic difference in comparison to the paltry 6 Million on the Wii U. I would be willing to bet the bank that 99% of Sony fans would be very impressed if UC4 moved a similar amount of units in the same time frame to an install base the size of the Wii U. There is no way on God's green earth UC4 could come close to shipping 3.8 million with only 6 million consoles in the market. 

As for shipped vs sold, people are specualting but there are no definitive numbers yet whether it is shipped or sold so for that we will have to see. Nintendo did mentioon that it included digital sales so it very well could be sold to consumer.