It is time for me to step in after the seeing the last two weeks of people ridiculing what could be considered one of this years best games Mario 3D World.  Now I know that people are so use to ridiculing the WiiU but I hope you guys realize selling 300k in one week with a low install base and also considering it released the exact same day a little console called Xbox One came out, it did just fine.  Oh yeah and didnt ps4 and Zelda Link Between Worlds just come out?  I believe so.

Any ways that isn't my real point.  Mario 3D World is actually at 700k in its first two weeks.  Not that anybody ignores how well Nintendo games sale over time rather than on day one but ok then let's look at other Mario Games that has sold similar.

Super Mario Galaxy

Week 1  - 250k
Week 2 - 75k
Total Lifetime  - 10.94m

Mario 3D Land

Week 1 -  340k
Week 2 - 90k
Total Lifetime - 8.79m

New Super Mario Bros U

Week 1 - 305k
Week 2 - 145k
Total Lifetime - 2.55m

Super Paper Mario 

Week 1 -  165k
Week 2-  250k
Total Lifetime - 3.60m

New Super Mario Bros 2

Week 1 - 425k
Week 2 - 215k
Total Lifetime - 6.66m

So I say again how is this a flop?  Because Knack can outsell Mario 3D World it in UK as a launch title with a heavy attatch ratio due to a lack of games?  Well then ok.

Yea, those numbers pretty much show that SM3DW isn't just selling well but is selling extremely well, expecially when compared to Galaxy, which was the 1st console Mario. I wouldn't be shocked if in the long run it ended up outselling Mario 64 and became the #1 best selling 3D Mario title. It just appeals to a wide range of people. Kids, Adults, Mario fans, Platformer fans, Fans of great games, Fans of games in 60 FPS (not joking), Cat Lovers (semi-joking). Maybe Nintendo knows what it is doing after all.

 " OMG!!!! KNACK OUTSOLD 3D WORLD IN TEH UK THEREFORE 3D WORLD FLOPPED!!!!!" Wonderful logic right here.

Nintendo products are evergreen titles which means they sell over a long period of time without any discounts which is the opposite of the trend for Third party games have, mainly front loaded sales, then sales flatline, then heavy discounts are applied.

It helps sony fanboys deal with the fact that Knack and Killzone are woefully mediocre games while Super Mario 3D World is on of the greatest games of all time.

Funny the UK suddenly became a relevant market now its the best country to cherry pick bad WiiU statisics. When the PS3 was getting outsold by the Xbox 360 consistently, year after year, no one reported on UK sales, we only heard about Europe as whole because it was better numbers for Sony.

Who's saying this game flopped in terms of overall sales? I would like to see some of those posts please.

Do we really have to dig.  there is a whole 20 page thread with that as the title alone.   By now its pretty obvious that it will end up selling 1.3 - 1.5 million by the end of the year, and to me atleast, that would make it a huge success.  I predicted 1 million and people on here were calling me crazy.

in fact cause of 3D world Wii U sales are picking up remember how low they were before its release

There is a thread on this matter.  There is also a big thread about the knack situation.  And then i even had someone come into a chatroom i was in the other day come in and say that it was failing. (Person from this site i might add)

Anyone who says it flopped is just baiting.
It very clearly did NOT flop.

It's doomed man.

I mean, look:

It's only the best selling one compared to Galaxy, NSMB2 and 3D Land in week two right now .

(but it's likely it'll be #3 next week because Galaxy and 3D Land shot up to over a million though, but still yeah, game's obviously going to be more than fine)