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Forums - Nintendo - Smash Bros. Wii U sells over 490,000 units in the U.S., fastest-selling Wii U game ever

Emperorbach said:
its good
not as spectacular as some hoped (sans the1.5m predictions)


1,5M WorldWide. Not sure if anyone predicted that amount WW



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Pavolink said:
So, honestly... I need Tbone to tell me if it is good or not. Or in line with expectations or below.


That software sales are good. As good as can be realistically expected anyway, I mean maybe some people had sky high expectations but they're probably living in a bit of a fantasy world. These are good sales given the Wii U's userbase. 

What is worrying though is Nintendo made no mention of a hardware increase like they did with Mario Kart 8 press release where they were quick to highlight a 600% boost in hardware, so perhaps the hardware boost wasn't as large as they were hoping. 



Pretty much anyone rational was thinking it would be around this number. There's Black Friday to come, which presumably a lot of people are waiting for - both to get the game, and the console itself.



flagstaad said:
Rogerioandrade said:
As expected.

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/252221/usa-preorders-chart-15-november-pokemon-omega-ruby-and-alpha-sapphire-super-smash-bros-for-wii-u-more/

And to think that people in Latin America still couldn´t get their hands on the game (specially South America)

What?, it has been available since friday itself in Colombia, official stores were delivering their pre-orders Nov 21st and from Saturday everyone who wanted could go and buy the game (but is expensive as usual). Unofficial distributors just got the game this week and not all, but the price is much decent.

It is impossible to find it in Brazil. Impossible!

At least here in Rio de Janeiro. Believe me, i looked everywhere and called all stores i could.



fedfed said:
fingers crossed WiiU will be over 100k this week

It will, it was 89k last week even before Smash released ;)



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I just noticed Xbox One just outsold Wii U.

Hopefully this game will give the Wii U some life left.



nice

vkaraujo said:

It is impossible to find it in Brazil. Impossible!

At least here in Rio de Janeiro. Believe me, i looked everywhere and called all stores i could.

Maybe is a country specific problem, I just checked with a few friends from Chile, and they also have the game since saturday. Additionally POE (from Uruguay) uploaded a video of him and his friends playing this weekend. It is a shame because Brazil is a big market.



Not too shabby in the US alone. And it hasn't let up. It remains in the top three hourly constantly alongside Pokemon OR/AS on Amazon. So it clearly is going into the holidays with a lot of momentum that doesn't seem to be tapering off as fast as other major releases did. But we'll see.



This is good and all, but Wii U sales don't seem to have drastically improved much. Still in stock everywhere I go, not anywhere near the top charts at amazon, gamestop, ect...

It'll probably be up in hardware sales by at least a decent margin, but nothings changed it seems. The Wii U is still fading fast. It needs a decent-to-large price cut, marketing, Smash Wii U bundles and probably more if it Nintendo wants to actually improve the consoles future.



kowenicki said:

Decent number.  But no mention of hardware boost, however anecdotal or early, is telling.

Well I never noticed WiiU near the top on Amazon either despite the game being very high



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