1st Week = 1-1.5 million

15 weeks = 4.5 million

Lifetime = 8 million

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Last year, New Super Mario Bros was at the same preorder level that Donkey Kong is at now. When the price cut happened, Mario's preorders doubled and then tripled on a weekly basis. It eventually came out with a first week tally of 2.29 million, mainly thanks to a huge first week in Japan.

This leads me to believe that Donkey Kong may follow a similar path. If a price cut happens, I expect it to open higher. If not, then it might open around 1 million.

For the first fifteen weeks I expect this to be one of the top sellers for Nintendo, with at least 500k/wk for the 6 weeks through the holidays. After that, it will slow down to a pace of maybe 150k/wk. At the end of 15 weeks it should be at 4 to 5 million.

For the rest of the year, I think the legs will hold up well at about 80-100,000/week, totaling to around 8 million at the end of 52 weeks from it's release. From there it may inch up further to 9 or 10 million.

Lol this picture is cracking me up everytime XD

first week - 800k

first 15 weeks - 4.2m

lifetime - 7.5m

Well Donkey Kong used to be a very big franchise, on the GameCube however the franchise did not fare so well. The Wiimake of Jungle Beat didn't do much better on the Wii and Barrel Blast wasn't all that big either.

DK:JB sold 30,000 openning month. I doubt it will do that bad.

okay best bet is

300,000 launch week

2,700,000 first 15 weeks

4,000,000 Life time total

It's kind of pointless looking at the sales of DK games since DK64 seeing as they were DK games in name alone. I mean, I love DK games but I didn't buy a single one of those abominations, and I can't be alone judging by the sales. Thankfully, Nintendo have seen sense and returned the franchise to its best (and most successful) format.

As such...

FW: 1.5million

15 weeks: 6million

LT: 10million

First Week: 1,100,000

15 Weeks: 4,700,000

Lifetime: 8,800,000

Thanks for bumping the thread.

1st week: 600,000

15th week: 3,800,000

LT: 6,500,000

First week: 600000

15th week: 2 million

Lifetime 5.5 million

First Week Worldwide: 925k

After 15 Weeks: 7.2 million

Lifetime: 10.8 million