Nintendo Million-Seller Titles Update (March 2008)

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takkxyz on 25 April 2008

@OkeyDokey: Remember, Financial Reports are shipped to retailers, not sold to cusotomers.

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celine on 25 April 2008

Damn I didn't see your thread !

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Captian_Twig on 25 April 2008

No Mario Kart Wii? Cries...

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MontanaHatchet on 25 April 2008

Captian_Twig said:
No Mario Kart Wii? Cries...

Yeah, but this is for March.

Anyways, looks like Vgchartz did a fantastic job. No surprise, though.

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crho on 25 April 2008

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2008/080425e.pdf

Launch Schedule of Primary NINTENDO Products by Region (2008.04～2008.06)

Japan
[WII] Mario Kart Wii - 04/10
[NDS] Bokura ha Kaseki Horida - 04/17
[WII] Link's Crossbow Training - 05/01
[WII] Battalion Wars 2 - 05/15
[NDS] Heracles on Eiko: Tamashii no Shomei - 05/22
[WII] Mario Super Sluggers - 06/19
[NDS] Daigasso! Band Brothers DX - 06/26

The United States
[NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time - 04/21
[NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness - 04/21
[WII] Mario Kart Wii - 04/27
[NDS] Crosswords DS - 05/05
[WII] Wii Fit - 05/19

Europe
[WII] Mario Kart Wii - 04/11
[WII] Wii Fit - 04/25
[WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 06/27

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Erik Aston on 25 April 2008

So VGC overtracked about 6 Wii titles, then.

Super Paper Mario and Metroid Prime 3 certainly aren't in a state of near sell-out, so they should probably be lowered about 100K. BBA should be lowered about the same.

SMG and MP8 are a little worse, since they should have more on shelves than the above 3 given their sales rate, and are overtracked by about 100K vs. shipments. That isn't so bad seeing MP8 shipped 500K and SMG 900K since the last reporting period.

The only one that's really bad is Zelda, since it's been out for so long. It has only shipped 220K units since the end of Dec 2007, but VGC had it going up about 500K in sales. In reality, I think it was overtracked at the last reporting period too.

However the DS tracking is universally impressive!

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Edouble24 on 26 April 2008

It's very good to know the numbers are close.

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dsoverpsp on 26 April 2008

thanks for putting the charts up

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noname2200 on 26 April 2008

Impressive work by ioi and his team. Keep up the good work, and thanks for making it available. And thanks to Seneque for posting the comparison on behalf of all of us who are too lazy.