^^No no no you've got it all wrong--tomorrow never dies!

i just realised, the title says NORTH american sales. does that mean that SMG sold significantly more than 400k last week when the rest of america is added into the equation?
that'd be crazy :O

mario to world : HAI

It's a little bit unfair against the PS2, because it didn't started in all regions at the same time. If you show the graphs for each region, than the Wii is very similar to the PS2 in the trend.

It seems safe to assume SMG sold 500k world wide again this week.  But how close did it come to breaking a million -- that's the more interesting question.

well we have the numbers: 180k in europe, 100k in japan and over 400k in america, that makes 680k at least.

I just noticed that japan and others were updated - Wii 2 spots, DS 3 spots (in top 5, in both regions). Cant wait to see what the NA sales are, but as I saw first hand, the DS games were just gone, so I suspect it will be similar if not bigger numbers.

I will be conservative and say the Wii sold more than 1 million in software this week.

@ Those who spoke about advertising rules.

I think it is more considered bad form than illegal to talk about the competitor.
Mattel used to do it with Atari -- so it has been done in videogames before.

Mike from Morgantown

PS -- The lawsuits in the class era were not over ads, they were over technology.

At the same time, choosing not to launch simultaneously in all three regions meant the PS2 was less supply-constrained.