You do realize that the past two weeks is when the special edition went up for sale right? Yeah, and it has been available to pre-order from Gamestop. There has been no limit to the pre-orders for it there. So it makes perfect sense why it has gotten 40k pre-orders in the last two weeks.

Also keep in mind it's one of the main games that a lot of people have been waiting to get a Wii U for, and it's pretty much the only big hitter system seller this holiday. I imagine in a month we will see some heavy advertising for it as well.

Honestly, the game has not chance here until they start showing localized footage. The footage they've been showing won't attract anyone who hasn't been watching this game for 3 years already. They need epic trailers with english voices.

The special edition bundle wasn't announced until the 29th of August. 

These numbers are from 2 and 3 weeks prior. That's why I'm unsure of these numbers.

Uhmmm... I know???

Yet Xenoblade did almost 500k here with no advertising and only available at Gamestop.... 

It has a chance regardless

Anyways, like I said, in a month we'll see some advertising for it. 

All those people waiting those 3 years are doing their pre-orders now, which is where all of these are coming from. People who have known about the game. 

The preorders are not right, Halo 5 should've gotten more preorders than that.

On a platform with 100m users.

Not a chance.

Ah yes, Pokemon. The rest aren't big sellers.

To be fair, you never asked if they were big sellers.
You asked if their were JRPGs that sell well in the West.
And all of those games above do. In fact, they all sell better in the West than they do in Japan.
Kingdom Hearts is another one.

No big sellers? Lol. Super Paper Mario sold 4M. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story sold at least 4.2M.

Yeah, sure, no big sellers. Guess Uncharted is not big either.

Nah, Nintendo doesn't care about Wii U games anymore. Just look at beautiful marketing campaign for Devil's Third, Fatal Frame V and Mario Tennis.

I'm sure they will release Survival guide № 3 and launch trailer for Xeno X and that's it.