I think these will be fairly decent sales. Should put a stop to all these "flop" insinuations that have been flying around. I remember when 500K was the most popular prediction for it before it came out. Looks like it will eventually reach that magic milestone. Dunno if the publisher/dev will be pleased with these numbers as  i think i read somewhere on this site the devs were disappointed with the sales of this game. Well i saw in a thread on this site it had reached over 400k so i checked the site numbers and it's presently at 410k without Japanese release. I know we can't expect Japan LTD to reach 90k but i think it will be a slow crawl to 500k with low 1,000's of sales elsewhere. Hoping it will have some sorts of legs in Japan too. So we may have to wait for Publisher numbers to see if it goes gold but i think it is likely. Wonder if the Publishers/devs will be pleased if/when it goes gold? Good game, it deserves it. 

It will probably ship 500k before the fiscal year ends, at least.

Shame for Stof it didn't do it quicker!

"I think these will be fairly decent sales. Should put a stop to all these "flop" insinuations that have been flying around."

Not really, since there are a) Wii haters who use it as made-up proof core games don't sell on it, and b) those that think the game should have sold far better because they think odd art styles are mainstream (why they also don't get why No More Heroes and Chinatown Wars didn't sell millions).

Surely though when it goes gold though it will make a difference? No? Hasn't Chinatown wars hit 1m on the DS? Thought it had.

Maybe eventually, but Japan won't help much (like 30k MAX). I think it's probably overtracked here a bit too honestly.

Chinatown Wars is very close to 1 million (within 50,000 units) and it sells about 6k every week, so it will make it soon.

Interest was already expressed in a Madworld 2 by the producer I believe (can't remember the guy's specific position). In terms of sales, Madworld is at 420k, and sells about ~3.5k every week, so it could hit 500k by the beginning of August. However, now that it has a Japanese release (20k shipment, 5k first day, assuming ~8.5k first week) it will reach the mark a little bit faster.

The sad part is most of these sales are probably from the bargain bin. But still 500k is possible. As much as ppl deride this game.. its got personality and thats saying a lot for most 3rd party wii games!

"The sad part is most of these sales are probably from the bargain bin."

But not unexpected. Short games with almost no replay value are not worth full price.

Yeah... MadWorld really should've launched at $39.99 max. The value proposition really isn't there.