I haven't even pre-ordered this game yet... but I shall as soon as job situation becomes calmer.

I think smashers are a bit more rabid than karters, hence more preorders. It also seems that they've been pushing smash a lot harder than they did MK.

So every Nintendo Console game got hurt by a counterpart of a HH? So if SSBU sold 2mil lets say this year, how much would it be if 3ds version didnt exist?

You're just taking it out on me cos you're annoyed Smash is doing well. :p

#SmashisTrash, right? ;)

Depends on how similar they are. The more similar, the more they compete. 

At least lifetime sales will prove us right in the end. ;)

Big fucking congrats if true but i'm sticking with my prediction that mk8 will be bigger. In Japan I think it will be small. COMG have very few pre orders for it but that could change.

EDIT: Just noticed they have a seperate Gamecube bundle for SSB. If that's a hardware bundle then i expect a nice little bump. 

Lol, oh you.

Lol, I exaggerated, I'm sure SSBB still sells (Nintendo games have a gift of selling almost forever), but not as much as MKWii. When I said "nowhere to be seen" I was looking at 2014 so far, and I wasn't wrong. ;) My bad, that wasn't applicable for some of the other yearz. One metric we can use to directly measure which came out on top yearly is Amazon (although it's not with respect to the ENTIRE market, it does give us some hints on market trends).

MKWii charted higher in Amazon's top 100 charts in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 (Brawl didn't chart), 2013 (Brawl barely made it to the top 100 here) and 2014 (Brawl hasn't made it on the chart....will it make it here by the end of the year like it did in 2013!?!?). The only time Brawl outsold it was in 2012, but that was the end of the World, so yeah, of course the people needed to practice some crazy fighting skills in order to survive the end of the world. ....  

By the way, they're about 6 years old and some months, not 7 yet in the US market!  

I don't think the 3DS version would affect the Wii U one as much as people are saying (legs may be affected), but let's not compare the situation with MK8. Smash Bros. 3DS came out 2014, Smash Bros. Wii U will release in a few weeks during the same year, MK7 released almost 3 years ago, MK8 released this year. People are now tired of MK7, it's been 3 years and they now want a new one, MK8! Smash 3DS came out this year, over a month ago, many aren't ready to buy a $300 console for a similar game just yet (maybe later!). I know I know, 8 player Smashing, local multiplayer fun...blah blah blah, that's something we, the "core" fans, care about, not common Tom or usual Mary. 

Not really surprising. Smash is for the core demographic which are the ones that are preordering. MK8 is for casuals to pick up.

Still doesn't mean that Smash U will sell more than MK8.

Why are people saying this alot, the thread doesn't mention that it will. I mean ORAS>XY in pre order but that doesn't mean anybody (or at least almost nobody) thinks it'll outsell it lifetime.