LMAO. ok, they are "ignoring" mario.

Okay, not the right word. But the fact that more than double the people have preordered Puzzles and Dragons Z (still a fair way out from release remember too) than have bought 3DWorld at COMG after the first weekend of release is pretty incredible.

Install base is a huge part of it of course, but it does show how consumers preferences are changing.

the games are not even for the same system.

Awesome number for LR, where did you see that?

Ouch Mario. That does not look good... Taiko flopping hard as well :/

That doesn't change the fact that people are more interested in spending their money on Puzzles and Dragons Z than they are on Mario right now. That's pretty incredible.

And not just any group of people, Nintendo consumers.

Yeah, that was too good to be true. I hope it can break 300K though... It's really a huge improvement over XIII-2 which already improved from XIII.

Mario will do at least 140k and after that it can at max see a 200k opening.
Taiko will settle for a 5-10k opening, maybe 15 if lucky.
God Eater will be around 100k combined.
Just my guesses.

You are magically assuming every wii u owner owns a 3ds. also you are bashing sales that are yet unknown, from the game with one of the top 3 longest legs in this industry, in one region. boy, that's a lot of negativity for one person.

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