Is this source credible... I'm taking the same route when I found out the SMG sales... I'll wait until the official nubmers are up.

Cryoakira said: 100 000 is good if true, but not exceptionnal given the install base.

Given the install base?  How many X360 games have sold 100k on day one?  How many of those were rail shooters?  The install bases are very close right now.  If it's true, 100k on day one has to be the best opening for a rail shooter ever.

Well even with those two games, Halo 3 didn't sell anywhere near 100 K in a day in japan, and Galaxy sold only 130K in japan on day one, so saying that 100K in one day isn't good just proves that banprest2 hasn't paid attention

Shsh, can someone please explain the Japanese market to me? Everytime I think I understand why a game sold how it sold, another game comes and sell absolutely different than my expectations would have been...

Anyways, it's always nice to see a good game selling on the Wii, even more so if it's a third party.

Everyone has to also consider that Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles was projected to have worldwide lifetime sales in the 600,000 range; if Japan takes out a 100,000+ chunk in week one (with lifetime sales over 300,000 units) this makes it pretty obvious that the game will sell far beyond expectations.

Cryoakira said: "Remember, it's a zapper game" Can be very well played w/o the zapper. "considering it hasn't been super hyped" you mean, after a dozens of video trailers, tons of articles/previews and such, not to mention we're talking about Resident Evil (RE4 did a million on the Wii)... 100 000 is good if true, but not exceptionnal given the install base.

Well, it can't, since "zapper" in this case means rail shooter. Considering the genre, the rumored sales were really good. I would have expected something between 30k to 50k max. RE4 did (have done) million on Wii (sold to retail), but not in Japan. In fact, this could outsell RE4 Wii edition WW by the end of the year. Although it have had a lot of trailers etc, it also have had a lot of anti-hype, mostly because of being shadowed by RE5. I would say UC is more like fan service for RE fans, not so much for people, who never have played a single RE. And about the "low" reviews, when have a rail shooter scored high? Anyway, it's better to wait for the offial numbers before saying anything more.

Its a casual game, with a RE brand. Sounds like something Japan would love in my opinion. Still be ultra-ironic if this outsells Galaxy week#1.

In a way, I expected this too boost the Wii sales more than Galaxy did - as its a different sort of genre.

Wii sales to 50k-60k for the week?

Good lead up for WiiFit...

Yeah was already saying that its for Japan as it says 15 November, but VGchartz was giving me a hard time for a minute or 5 and didn't enter the entire post.

Impressive, veeeeeery impressive! Lets hope hardware sales will be pushed up then. I wish we could just say this about Z&W as well... *sob*, but they so deserve it at Capcom *hail*. But.. don't you dare to sell more than Mario Galaxy or else I'll let Mario loose on you guys *lol*.

fantastic news as if there's one third party developer to have success with the wii it's capcom.

Shame it wasn't zak and wiki as I would have loved all 3 releases this year to smash their predictions so going into 2008 capcom feels more confident about the wii support.

Google doesn't translate it well, but...

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fruliweb2.empas.com%2Fruliboard%2Fread.htm%3Fmain%3Dnin%26table%3Dgame_nin02%26num%3D12663%26page%3D1%26left%3Db&langpair=ko%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

(scroll to the right... as the main article is all on one line). It's trying to predict 10 million world wide, which I don't see happening for an on rails shooter even if day one is 100k.