The numbers all around are poor. But it looks like November usually sucks for Japan with its holiday sales only starting at the very end of November. Only October and February look like worse months overall:

http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_yoy.php?reg=Japan&start_year=2004&end_year=2013&console=

So comments regarding a lack of holiday sales is probably premature. Kid friendly titles like SM3DW, Drum, Pokemon etc. may pick up in the next 5 weeks. That said it doesn't look like SM3DW is really pushing sales so is unlikely to result in anywhere near the bump Nintendo was needing.

No hardware figures from Famitsu?

Haha. We will have to see. Both are going to be at the bottom of the charts for a long time.

How is 3D World a bomb
selling about 60% of the supply would mean that it met Nintendo's expectations
also we have no digital sales, the game is pretty small and no WiiU owner should have trouble downloading it, so i'm guessing that it had a bigger opening week that Super Mario 64 DS Which makes the future look OK
about a million or so life time
what killed the game in Japan is most likely the second trailer which should that the game was not following 3D Land all the way which made it less linear and japanese gamers simply prefer linear mario game and that's why 3D Land is the best selling 3D Mario and why Super Mario Bros. 2 surpassed 3D Land

edit: 3D World's shipment is between 180000 and 214000 units so good first week

I have to shake my head at some of you "Mario 3D Worlds Bombed" folk. 3D Mario games do not sell excessively in Japan. Period. Please refer to opening weeks for Mario Galaxy when it was released for the Wii. The install base was 3.8 Million in Japan (260,993 first week) and Mario Galaxy 2 when the install base was 10.3 Million(340,397 first week). With only 1.16 Million consoles sold in Japan, 95-101 Thousand is a respectable enough opening.

I'm not really worried about Mario 3D World in the long term per se, worldwide. I'm sure when all's said and done Nintendo will be able to push its sales up to 4+ million WW, which will make it nicely profitable.

It's the whole "Wii U haz no games, you can't judge it, when it gets games like Mario 3D, then you will see a big explosion in sales!" folks that are probably getting the wake up call.

Mario is gonna be alright, it's the Wii U as a platform that is more of a concern.

I think that's actually good for Lightning Returns. The drop is normal considering the reception of the previous games and considering the low budget. I don't believe it's a sign of franchise fatigue (well maybe fatigue for FFXIII). FFXV should do great.

I think Gran Turismo 6 will be a bigger flop.

It sold far less than I expected and if the download figures are respectable Nintendo should at least release them for marketing purposes.

Regardless the main concern is that it moved so few consoles. If this number does not rise significantly over the next couple or so weeks even the mostest of Nintendo supporters will have to concede that Japan is a lost cause.

To be honest I don't really see any of the consoles doing any better there this time around. Handhelds seems to be the force there but we will see in time.

Oh lawd. I didn't think anyone would try to defend it, let alone call it a good first week.

The top two posts summarise it well.

pezus I ike your optimism. I hope you are right and proof everyone wrong (only cause your a fan hoping for a saviour), but as the two above said the trend for home consoles in the long run isn't looking good for Japan.