Bodhesatva said:
Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine each did less than that (Sunshine considerably so). It's not an outlandish claim, Avinash. |
According to VGChartz, SM64's Japanese sales were about 2 million of about 12 million, or 1/6th of the total. As for the Nintendo 64, Japan got 5.5 million of 33 million total, or 1/6th of the total. Sunshine sold .87 million in Japan out of 5.91 million total, or approximately 15%. The Gamecube sold 4 million in Japan of 21.6 million total, or about 19%
(A) Super Mario 64 did as well in Japan, relatively speaking, as outside of it. Super Mario Sunshine did, admittedly, somewhat worse. Â
(B) SM64's sales in Japan were held back -- a lot -- due to the small install base of the N64 there. Ditto SMS.Â
(C) The Wii is insanely popular in Japan. In fact, almost DS Lite popular.Â
(D) Wii sales in Japan currently stand at about 82% of American Wii sales, based on VGChartz's Compare Consoles graph. (As of now, the graphs end at 2.98 and 3.64, respectively)
(E) Based on past performance and (D), it is most reasonable to suppose that, if the J-Wii to A-Wii ratio stays similar, Super Mario Galaxy will sell not less than 70-75% as many copies in Japan as in America.Â
(F) 1.8 is 51.4% of 3.5.Â
(G) I believe that ckmlb is greatly overestimating the Japanese obsession with casual games -- that specifically, he is presuming that that obsession will cause them to disregard games that are not casual. Whatever "casual" is.Â
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