gansito more or less says stuff like that all the time, posting on a sales site and always making comments like "wait for NPD" is kinda insulting to the work put into this site.  That kinda irritates me but likely the reason why is because of this post http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?post=3352684&page=1&postnum=62 which would put first week almost at his lifetime sales prediction, kinda egg on the face on that one.

Honestly, MH3 sales are pretty good, releasing it here was mostly localizing a lot of text, they already sold a million in Japan, so they've made their money and then some, this game is far from the best Wii game on a technical level so they probably broke even at a rather low point, so bringing it here, promoting the crap out of it and getting bigger sales in return is exactly what they want, it might not be a million first week in America but getting their name out there, some fans, and word of mouth is exactly what they want. 

I can see this title doing a slow burn much like CoD4 on Wii hitting a million, which had a lower opening than this game, not saying MH3 is gonna hit a million in the west, but expect good things and it all went exactly how Capcom wanted it to go.

It got some very bad reviews which probably hurt sales. Some as low as 70. I find this incedibly odd since I am finding this to be one of the best games I have played in years.

I've taken your consideration into account it it would still come out as overtracked by 4.72 thousands at 71.8% probability.

This is a terrible offense for the nº1 games and console sales tracking website in the world.

If you guys don't trust VGChartz numbers why are you commenting on sales threads and even bothered to have an account in the first place?

Speaking by myself, I don't care about NPD, Media Create and so on, because when Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft release their own sales figures, those "reliable" sources happen to be over/under tracking some hardware or software too.

There's discrepancies everywhere. If you guys don't trust the numbers that vgchartz team serve you weekly, please stop the annoying posts.

You guys are kidding and making fun out of a serious job in here. A weekly top200 doesn't pop out from thin air, and you got absolutely ZERO respect for the hard job behind it. If you're not happy with all of this for FREE, I don't know what are you guys doing here.

Amen.

You're not directing that at me, right?

Otherwise, you need to fix your sarcasm radar :)

While it pales compared next to Splinter Cell's opening week numbers, 183k in NA/Others is an extremely good start for both the MH franchise and for a 'core' game on Wii in general.

Capcom won't be complaining that's for sure.

However, it'd be nice to see some great legs for this game.

2nd week I expect a big drop off in the US and a lesser drop off (in percentages) in Others.

Did betetr than any other Mh game in the west so that's something to cheer about.

It would be nice to see this game pass 2 million by the fall.