Kids likes CoD, don't you see the numbers?

Some users like to argue that sales equal quality, just throwing that out there. I don't, as the game could sell 1 or 100 million copies, a good/bad game is a good/bad game.  Knack doesn't look like a good game. 

Nice to see people putting the usual spin on things though.  "Super Mario 3D World will sell bettter over time."  Of course it will, it's Mario.  A bag of shit with Mario written on it would sell better than 90% of the games released.  Super Mario 3D World actually looks really good, but I'm just stating facts here.  Quality of a Mario game doesn't matter.  New Super Mario Bros DS anyone?  Super Princess Peach sold a million and it's one of the worst platformers to be released in quite some time.

*edit*  A couple ediits.

3d world outsold knack in just north america, by a few hundred k. so take knack's worldwide launch sales and they dont even touch 3d world's north america sales. people are just grasping at straws by comparing these 2 games, they wana down play a nintendo game or mario game at any chance they get, pure and simple.....
also mario games, like others have stated are games that sell over a long time period and sell well, and 3d world will be no different. 3d world will sell over 7 million when its all said and done with and knack might hit 1 million if its lucky.

This is how you know the end is near.

I don't see any actual numbers for 3D World in your post, just a vague comparison between US and UK sales of Dead Rising and Knack.  If we get splits from the Guardian, we can get a better idea, but it isn't looking promising.

Speaking of actual numbers, 3D Land had two days in the UK not five.

I don't know why you are acting like a console launch will have such a larger effect on placements than a bunch of new releases.  Even using your estimate for 3DW, it would have been 17th if it had launched the same week as 3D Land.  It would have had seven new releases ahead of it.  In comparison, this week it is at 20th with four new releases ahead of it, even adding in all the PS4 titles only equalizes it to seven.  Last week had a console launch after all, also with seven new releases for the XOne ahead of 20, yet number 20 was only 13.6k.  That amount would have only hit number 27 on 3D Land's launch week.

I'm not sure the Wii U has proven it can produce any marathon runners in the UK.  Have any non-bundled games spent more than a few weeks in the top 40?

Is Wii U d00med?

Lol, and youre just making excuses for Mario at every turn. Comparing knack to mario in the uk "only" is not clutching at straw. This was about the Uk, there was no need to bring in WW sale. Considering the ps4 has half the world sales of the wii u, mario and knacks WW game to console ratio is actually pretty close, but I wonder who is making the excuses.

Dont underestimate the cook

lol at all the people without a sense of humour, trying to turn this into a serious sales discussion

It looks like I guessed right. Almost nobody on this thread had made their opinion of themselves about knack, but yet, are the first to say the game is mediocre.

I can understand that you don't have a PS4, and also that you don't need to play the whole game to get an opinion on it, but at least look at some gameplay/walkthrough video on youtube before speaking bad about a game.