So Far, Nintendo's Arms Does Not Have Legs - What?

[h2ohno]

DonFerrari said:

h2ohno said:

No.  The accusation of being wrong is because the article falsely represents 2 weeks worth of sales as being 6 weeks worth of sales.  The report that gives those numbers only covers until the end of June, and the article presents it as including almost all of July.  The numbers for July, the numbers that would prove or disprove the point, don't exist yet.  It's like someone only having box office data for the first two weekends Wonder Woman was in theaters and concluding that the film flopped when he doesn't have the information on the rest of the movie's run.

That the numbers are wrong is obvious. But look at all the answers in the thread... Sorry to inform you most are saying it's a success for selling 1.2M in 2 weeks. Legs have nothing to do with how much it sold on launch, but how much post launch sales were.

When most games don't reach 1 million sales it is a success for a new IP to do so on a system with an install base which is less than 5 million.  While it would be disturbing if sales were to drop off a cliff, let's not pretend that Arms was expected to do Zelda or Mario Kart numbers or to have a 50% attach ratio.  Even if Splatoon and Mario overshadow it, those 2 weeks have established Arms as a viable franchise going forward.