Wait a second. For a console that's for all intensive purposes dead, and frankly a huge worry, especially when Mario 3d World AND Donkey Kong didn't smash anywhere near a million in their 1st weeks, I think most of us thought MK8 wouldn't do this well in 2 days.
And i look at their stock movement, not many others did either. https://www.google.com/finance?cid=685139
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
