Japan Sales 01/06/14 - Mario Kart 8 Week! (>325k SW, 19k HW)

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padib said:

What this might also tell us is that MK8 has a lot of potential for more sales.

The reason is that almost the only buyers were current owners, if the low HW bump is any indicator.

Therefore if the game gets a good deal of word of mouth, we could see the game have massive legs (which wouldn't be new to the series) and a steady prolonged boost at 15-18k for the next couple of weeks.

This is what I'm thinking (well, hoping, anyway).

Given the traditional bad HW numbers in Japan, the anticipation for MK8 wasn't enough to change HW numbers drastically right away, but now that the game is out and has a lot of positive buzz, the baseline for WiiU hardware could sustain higher.  I'd rather see a modest first week HW bump if numbers stay higher in the weeks to come than a 30 or 40k first week and then a quick return to 6k a week.

Next week's WiiU numbers will be very telling.