| Vena said:
I doubt he'd be referring to the last two days as the "last week of May", the quote we're talking about was with regards to MK8 and the WiiU. Two days are not a week no matter how we spin it, and the whole discussion on this comes up well after the first week of June was already over (as it came from E3). It doesn't flow logically to me. Two days is not a week, and the original quote and article on Polygon was about the week following its release... coming out on the second week of June. (Also I'm pretty sure we don't have actual numbers even from NPD, we have an estimate based on the 85% statement. All we know, seemingly concretely, is that the MK8 bundle sold 25k+ and sold out.) |
I'm not saying he was referring to the last two days, I am saying he was referring to the last week of May. Where you got only two days from my post I have no idea.
The original quote seems to be the one from David Gibson who was at the Analyst meeting. He said
"#Nintendo said MK8 attach rate in US was 18% versus 7% for MK7. MK8 boosted WiiU sales 4.1x week over week v. MK7 2.4x "
Then Reggie said to Polygon, though Polygon didn't put that statement in quotations.
"Sales of the Wii U console quadrupled the week after the release of Mario Kart 8, compared to the week prior, Fils-Aime said."
Then he told VentureBeat
"we announced to the financial community here in the United States that Mario Kart 8 has increased the sell-through of the Wii U hardware business by a factor of four. In the two weeks prior to the launch, versus what we’ve seen now following the launch, we’re selling at a daily rate four times higher than where we were before."
All three of these quotes are potentially saying different things (especially the last one), but seem to be using the same set of data.
The 25k Mario Kart bundles came from Creamsugar over on neogaf. He also gave us the Wii U hardware number.
