But I am missing so many stores! And some of these stores had more than they said. Like I would have to give a number and they would say "More!" Then the pre-order number would be told to me, but when I asked for the ship number they would not say for certain. I underestimated to be fair.

It is Zelda, and many Americans may not understand it is a Dynasty Warrior game or even care that it is. They see Zelda and the advertisments and just pre-ordered it. I hope some are not surprised it is not what they thought. Not everyone reads game forums all day. So it could be a situation like that. They said they have had many people come in who have not pre-ordered it to buy it. Some for Christmas already one said.

WW was bundled though, and we do not track bundled games as far as I remember. plus as you said, it is a remake, mostly visuals.

skyward sword was an annoyance by many because of motion controls, it was a year that had few big games despite being the year of Zelda, and the system was already on its way out the door. The GC/ Wii Zelda TP was lucky to be on two systems, something SS should have gotten as well, but now we have quite a few Zelda games. But I would still welcome it with Gamepad controls.

Hyrule warriors has had some decent advertising, is something new, and exciting! I hope 150,000 is not it.

If it manages 300K FW, it would be by far the best selling Warriors in the US ever.