oMahly said:
the sales are bad because nintendo only made 420 physical copies of devil's third in the whole continent of North America, they later released it on the eshop but no one knows how much it sold there either. Devil's Third Multiplayer is really fun an addicting it's not really as bad as the critics say but it's still not worth $60, they should release a multiplayer only version for free or make it like $5-$15 |
Destructoid's article claimed that GameStop had 420 copies in its online store at that point in time. It didn't count any pre-orders, any purchases before the figure or any other copies that weren't available online for whatever reason. It also didn't include copies shipped to other retailers.
Did NOA print a load of copies? Almost certainly no, but it's still more than that 420 figure. It's likely that NOA had a much more reserved run after NOE and NAL overprinted the game (it's still available in virtually every store across Europe and Oceania, some of which have been selling it for less than half the suggested retail price). It's a very similar situation to Disaster: Day of Crisis on Wii in my view, with the difference that NOA actually released this one after seeing poor reception (both reviews and sales) in PAL territories.
