Because the Wii is 100% B/C with the Wii which required the sensor bar to emit the IR signal for the Wii remote.

so if I use the wii remote to play games like nintendoland..i'll need a sensor bar...godammit nintendo,y u no put necessary stuff in box

What do you mean why are they not putting a sensor bar in the box?   It's in the boxes that I've seen.

There are 1763 target stores in the US according to Taget Corp investore overview, so if we are saying 10 avg per store we end up with 17,630 units just for target.

Best Buy has 1055 "big box" stores (so doesn't include the Besy Buy mobile), after the 50 they closed, so that is 10,550.

Gamestop has 4434, which include EB Games, according to their corporate information so that is 44340 units.

Shopko has 135 stores so that is 1350.

Pamida has 181 stores so that is 1810.

Costco has 592 stores so that is 5920.

I'm sure a person who work at WalMart can get an exact number but there are around 4000 WalMarts in the the US, so that is another 40000

111500 just for those physical stores. (EDIT: For got to add target in.)

There are also a multitude of Mom-and-Pop stores, regional department stores and online sites

The best thing would base it on what they did for the Wii, which was under supplied, they shiped 1.2 million units in the US and that was done in two or three shipments. We can probally expect about the same since that was a pretty heath launch even through they had demand issues. So I would guess they will ship about 900,000 units for the Novement 17th. And judging from the preorder frenzy I'm expecting about a 95% sell through. So I'm guesing we will see about 1.5 million units in the US for 2012.

I'm being conservative on this because of the rumored manufacturing issues with the controllers, which I think is the reason they are not selling the controller sepratly in the US at the this point so they can maximize the number of consoles shiped with out having to worry about shiping enough pads as well.

@BlkPaladin: that's a great guestimate!! Great job!!

Women, y u no like Metroid? :(

Update on NSMB 2's progress on the NA eShop. It is now the ninth best selling eShop title LTD, outselling Dillion's Rolling Western. As of 9/22/2012.

Surprised Mother is up there for the men, and do women hate samus or something?

No surprsise to me. Mother has a huge fanbase, especially thanks to the Internet. Particularly male-dominated areas of the Internet, I believe. Same goes for Pokemon.

Not necessarily. Metroid in recent times has had the perception of being a hardcore shooter franchise, and the whole Other M ordeal did some serious damage to the brand (which may or may not be warranted). I'm not a woman, so I can't say for sure what the deal is, so... women, y u no like Metroid? :(

Earthbound is in my top ten favorite games, so I am proud to be one those men. Same goes for Mother 3.

I figured Other M had something to do with that. I personally loved the game, as it showed how great a woman could be even with some weaknesses.