I'm gonna wait until NPD to really try to explain these sales, but if they're true, it's not pretty. Although, games like Triple Deluxe, Wii Party U and New Super Luigi U sold similarly in their FWs in the US but ended up selling well LT. So who knows? The game seems to have legs so far and I think the budget price will be an attractive point for consumers moving forward.

Budget budget, exactly... Its equvivalent to an indie release... Cant always play it SAFE all the time... If your in a competition, regardless of what kind, you want to be among the top 3. Not just safe. Thats like olympians go into a race being okay with just safe. 

I wasn't expecting Kirby to sell extremely well since this was a budgeted game...

Therefore, I don't really think this is a flop

My prediction initially was 200k in sales. I'm sure it'll pass it this year, but not by much.

Though 25kish is believeable being WiiU game+Budget Release+Spin off (of the least selling of Kirby), its not bad like your thinking.

Triple Deluxe was 41k First Week in US (3DS+Main Game), Rainbow Curse is 20k+ (WiiU+Spinoff). Need to wait intill end of year before calling this game a flop.

I'm a die-hard Nintendo fan who generally buys all of their big first party releases but... honestly this one just didn't look good. I skipped it. I can imagine many others doing the same. 

TBH when the kirby games comes out in europe im gonna buy it. It looks alot fun and i just love the music in the game.

TD: 41k FW  vs RC 25k+ FW, calm down

I dunno.

But as for now this number are nothing.

I dont think nintendo wont make any profit from it and break even. It seems like an indie type game costing 40$, it will make them a lot of money even with smaller numbers because the devoloping cost are a lot lower. Good Game nintendo

Also its a game that will probably end up being rare because its a download title and probably limited print run all along