Well, I guess we will know by tomorrow (hopefully). Regardless, this game is one of the most fun games I have played in a while. My sense of accomplishment when I killed "First Challenging Mech-ish Boss 34" was unreal, I yelled at the TV like I was 10 again playing Mega Man X and avenging Zero's death (1994 spoiler?) and yelling "take that sigma!!!!"

Oh... well that would make much sense. Still, I hope it won't happen to Xenoblade.

Well, whoever guessed 140K was right on the money. Hope this thing has legs enough to sell through the initial printing. Anyone know what the first run numbers are? 250K? 300?

Ok, I was very close with my updated numbers, my original ones were a little optimistic taking into account the limited release and the shorter than usual week. Still good numbers for a game of the genre in a console not on its prime.

Still deserves better

I heard it was closer to 180k shipped to Gamestop. Don't know how accurate that is though. But sounds about right.

It seems that right now it's backordered at gamestop.com.

Yes, so we can assume it's sold out its inital shipment. So 40k+ for next week, which seems reasonable. 

Counting the stuff from Nintendo, 55k next week seems like a possibilty.

that would be a nice second week number, but I also think it will be smaller, something like 40k. I think they may do a second batch of games and then we will have in our hands a collectable item. final number for America to reach something like 250k.

I hope that this game somehow does 1 million lifetime, but my guess is somewhere closer to 600K. A great game, and hopefully we will see a sequel, either direct, or spiritual. Glad that MonoSoft is a 1st party now, can't wait to see what they can do for the Wii U (which will have a 23 core CPU and a 4 dimensional GPU).