Splatoon shatters expectations if it sells really well in the west. No numbers for that yet.

So far it does great in Japan.

Wait, how do you calculate this? Are you talking HW digital sales and retail copies and simply applying the same ratios to Splatoon as a default formula for assumed total sales? Or are there actual preliminary figures available somewhere?
Besides, counting the beginning of June as well hardly constitues first week sales, which is what most people are aiming at when they said "wait for global numbers" when you started making the crow threads (me included).
All we know for now is that it did great in Japan.

I'd also want to see figures for The Witcher 3 (from official sources) in NA!

Im currently making a thread on all known numbers, to make it simple each EShop has a ranking system in every country (how i know US/Japan's digital #)

In US Splatoon Digital surpassed HW digital. This means Splatoon>HW lifetime (digital only). The 21k number comes fromNPD of Sept that states HW digital ssales are 21k+. Hence its obviously alot more now considering HW sales are over doubled what they were then.

Splatoon minimum is 21k.

All 3 regions have different prices, in NA it costs 60 dollars, in Europe it costs the equivalent of 40 dollars, and in Japan it costs 6156 yen, which is 50 dollars.  It isn't exactly daylight robbery, the game has a well done campaign, and a decent amount of original content, with more coming till atleast August, which is all "free", so it isn't exactly daylight robbery, specially when people pay the same price for the yearly reskins that EA throws out, if paying 60 for that is fine, then paying any of those 3 prices for Splatoon is perfectly okay.

So we know that Splatoon already has more digital sales as shown here: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/software/ranking.html  With that we know it has better digital sales than SSBU, then if I remember correctly, Tbone mentioned that the digital sales of SSBU sit at 43k, this date either comes from the Famitsu Digital Archive, or that Nintendo gave a sold-through number for SSBU, and that was deducted to the physical sales, leaving the rest to be digital sales.  Though Splatoon should be way past that, since now it even has better digital sales than Mario Kart 8 in Japan.

@Tolu619:    I doubt it would also take that much, when taking amiibo, digital sales, and conversion rates, it would probably be done by its 2nd week or 3rd week, Splatoon is doubtfully a high-budget game, and Nintendo games are already said to have a moderate budget, so it shouldn't be that big of a budget, what may slow it down is the marketing budget

Any news on Splatoon's US or NA sales yet? Now that we know Japan has over 100k sales in its first week, I'm thinking it could do 200k - 350k in its first week in North America. 

Its moving alot of systems actually! http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=204024&page=1

Yes, I admit I jumped to conclusions too fast 

TBF nobody expected it at all, hell many of us thought 10k-12k hold would be optimistic. Funny how Splatoon at least in japan >SSBU/MK8 as a system seller

NA has fewer and less reliable indicators. However, Splatoon has already cracked the top 100 annual chart on Amazon (did that in a few days, hasn't updated in a while). Held in the top 5 for the first week, second week it is holding fairly strong in the top 10. Wii U likely won't see the same kind of proportionate jump as Japan, but Splatoon is looking potentially quite healthy in the States. We'll have to wait and see.

John Lucas expectations weren't met.

Should we make 10 threads for each game you predicted higher to serve you crow?