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 azurill: This is 2 days only!35k per day is great.Multiply it and you'l see that next weeks sales will be at least 200k.

Avanish_Tyagi: This would indicate two possibilities, either, the Wii userbase is very casual outside of NA, indicating why a more "hardcore" title like Mario posts relatively weak sales, or people are holding off until the holidays to purchase this game

Routsounmanman: Nintendo Europe has announced in the past that there will be SMG shortages specifically in UK.

GianCarmen: I heard that those sales of 70,000 for Mario Galaxy are for 2 days. Didn't it just come out a couple of days ago. Its been out since friday the 16th. For 2 days thats pretty dam good.

takkxyz: Hate to break it to you, you do realize the 70k is UK only
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I'd call them excuses...

An explanation offered to justify something.

Yes those are excuses. But logical ones.

Never said that they weren't logical, said that they were making excuses. 

 Also I forgot to add your excuse: 

It has only been out for four days. How can you get a week's worth of data for that. It is good for a game that has been out 4 days and this is 1/3 of their market.

 My thread didn't question the logic I was just saying what was going to/and has happened.  The logic does need to be questioned based on the knowledge that any games first week sales are not a whole week.  US games go from tues-sat (5 days), Japan games go from thrus-sn (4 days), and the UK is also 4 days.  Every game's firs tweek is only four days.  I don't see how that is something special since every game has a stunted first week.  And I'm also gonna go out on a limb and say (I could be wrong) that a game that has gotten as much publicity and marketing as this game has sold more in the second week in the first week.. I could be wrong but back to what I was saying.  Those are excuses.  So my first post in this thread is completly warranted and explaiend now... Thank you :)

Hmmm...

Going by that these are poor Galaxy sales.

I hope NA isn't this disappointing.

Let's keep the facts straight... Not every game's first week is 4 days of sales. Halo 3 was launched on a Wednesday in Europe. Wednesday-Sunday is 5 days. Super Mario Galaxy is 3 days (Friday-Sunday).

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But Halo 3 is not a game... it's a lifestyle

OT:  No seriously, there is an exception to every rule, but we're talking about this game, which had a four day week, like most games did... I was just trying to answer his statement.

But what 4 day week? Didn't you just read what I wrote? The game was launched on Friday...

EDIT - actually sorry, I had edited the post and only added the SMG part afterwards, you probably hadn't seen it. Anyway, SMG was 3 days.

Not a bad start at all :)

Well I will say this: 70k the first week sounds awesome to me considering we are talking about a single player game that is not an FPS, Racing, or Sports game in Europe.

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Still, it is an excuse and anyway, three days or four, it doesn't matter. The first week sales were 70k period.