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Forums - Nintendo - Mario Kart Wii pre-orders spike 54,540% on Amazon

Why... WHY?!?!

Why do people keep quoting amazon... it's almost never right.

Aside from that... you'd think it'd sell more then brawl. It's more casual and europe loves their racers... and Mario Kart outsold barwl on the cube.

I'm shocked the game comes with the Wii Wheel for 49.99. I thought for sure they'd at least add on 10 dollars to gip the consumers who don't want it.



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ok, so it went up 54,000% after it became available? so that means 54,000% up from ZERO sales? One sale?



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Faxanadu said:
ok, so it went up 54,000% after it became available? so that means 54,000% up from ZERO sales? One sale?

 Actually if you do the math, 54,000% of  0 is 0. MKWii is going to flop so hard, its all because of Wii Fit.



Kasz216 said:
Why... WHY?!?!

Why do people keep quoting amazon... it's almost never right.

Aside from that... you'd think it'd sell more then brawl. It's more casual and europe loves their racers... and Mario Kart outsold barwl on the cube.

I'm shocked the game comes with the Wii Wheel for 49.99. I thought for sure they'd at least add on 10 dollars to gip the consumers who don't want it.

I don't remember quoting this in an argument as fact. I just posted an article I thought people might be interested in it and asked a simple question indirectly related.

 



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Rath said:
Faxanadu said:
ok, so it went up 54,000% after it became available? so that means 54,000% up from ZERO sales? One sale?

Actually if you do the math, 54,000% of 0 is 0. MKWii is going to flop so hard, its all because of Wii Fit.


I do know that = times anything is 0. I meant was the base on which the percentage increase was calculated a 0 or a one. 



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Faxanadu said:
ok, so it went up 54,000% after it became available? so that means 54,000% up from ZERO sales? One sale?

It was my understanding you could pre-order it before but when it got officailly tagged and dated the pre-orders went up (of course). I was under the impression the previous pre-order had a generic price of which you agreed you would not hold Amazon.com responsible for change and would have to pay more if it was more.



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Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist. Especially if you think the moon landing was faked.


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i'm gonna preorder my copy later today...



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While Amazon is not a representitive of general sales, it is quite interesting looking at the amazon.co.uk top ten. Half the titles are pre-orders, for Wii fit, GTA IV (x 2), Mario Kart and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360) and GT 5 Prologue



Squall_Leonhart said:
@kenz

Its a joke that whenever anyone uses Amazon as a sales reference a baby seal dies! Its always been said for other consoles and i see the Wii as no exception :D

 What are you thinking?!? It's no joke!



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@thetone

Sorry for underplaying the seriousness of the problem :(