^ok, I checked and he was off, but now he is back online... it was premature... : )

Cmon now, we all know that you're not a human.

Well... I must wait to see how smash held up... at least I won't be refreshing my browser 84 times a minute until ioi logs off. LOL

you sound like you are tired : )... can we at least have a hint as to how smash did!

*cough* Smash is ~300-350k this week *cough*

Damn no data tonight. Oh well.

And only 300k. Oh well I guess big titles like that do have huge dropoffs.

 Oh god I hope not, I could lose some good money (I bet 600k).

300k? Impossible. That would pretty much mean Smash bombed in the US...

 Ewww Japan had a 300k 2nd week.  That would be a bit lackluster for the game, Im afraid.

We'll see what ioi puts up tommorow, but 300k isn't bad if it is the number.

We've already seen Smash isn't as big in the Americas as Japan though.

Japan = 130 million, USA+Canada alone = 330 million

Most non-pirated software in the Americas is from USA+Canada...so a 2.5x factor is roughly in order.

Smash at a 842k launch week in Japan could have meant Smash at 2100k in the Americas week one...but it was about 1600k launch week, about 20% shy of 2.5x Japan's opening. 

Looking at it as an attach rate though is pretty interesting:

843k/5204k in Japan

1577k/9796k in the Americas

16% attach ratio both launch weeks.  The fact that it is likely to drop faster in the Americas suggests that the title has wider appeal in Japan, which makes sense since there is far less Xbox 360 interest in Japan, and Wii is more dominant in Japan than it is in the Americas.

I wouldn't be surprised if the game ends up selling nearly the same amount weekly in the Americas and Japan in five or six weeks.