Bloomberg: Nintendo says Smash Wii U has more pre-orders than MK8.

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tbone51 said:

Soundwave said:
I dunno if would make sense for retailers to order more copies of Smash since it's a game launching in the holiday season, versus MK8 which launched in May. In the long term MK8 will still end up on top.

Another thing to note is MK8 had a free game deal outside japan, ssbu doesn't have anything and is worse due to needing more things with the purchase (gcn adapter+controller)

smash doesn't NEED those things.