Just to be sure. I can't find anything to this effect, and it obviously didn't breach the top 10, so has anyone seen anything, or are we still waiting for an NPD response from SEGA?

With the recent, depressing GTA numbers, aside from the fact that a lot of other things seem to be down from extrapolations, i'm kinda nervous to see what NPD is going to say

madworld<70k is what someone on Gaf said

Yeah, word on the street is that it's under 70k.

well no official numbers but i gaurentee its under 100k. :(

Depressing.

On IGN NPD article, one of the comments said 66k. It would fall in line with our numbers pretty well but that is unconfirmed of course.

Seems to be a good enough number for Sega.

Sega and Platinum Games' violent stylized action game Madworld sold 66,000 units following its March debut, NPD Group told Gamasutra.

Sales performance for the Wii-exclusive was modest, increasingly typical for Mature-rated games (ages 17 and up) that appear on Nintendo's generally family-friendly console.

Wii's M-Rated Madworld Sells 66,000 in the U.S.

Madworld's gameplay is purposely over-the-top, with vibrant red blood splattering across a virtually all black-and-white environment, complete with cursing -- a far cry content-wise from top-selling Wii software such as Wii Fit and Mario Kart.

Madworld has been well-received by game reviewers, earning an average score of 82 percent on Metacritic.

In February, Sega's other gory M-rated Wii game, the light gun shooter House of the Dead: Overkill, sold 45,000 units in its debut month in the U.S., according to NPD.

While its recent M-rated Wii games aren't lighting up charts in blockbuster fashion, Sega of America marketing exec Sean Ratcliffe claimed in a recent Venture Beat interview that "House of the Dead has done very well and has absolutely met our expectations. The first set of data for Madworld is very encouraging, as well."

NPD also confirmed to Gamasutra that the M-rated Take-Two and Rockstar Games DS title Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars sold just 89,000 units in its opening month of March.

M-rated software on current Nintendo platforms is uncommon. The Entertainment Software Rating Board lists just seven M-rated DS games, including GTA: Chinatown Wars, out of over 1,000 DS titles listed. The Wii has 26 M-rated games out of nearly 1,000 listed on ESRB's website.

I almost regret buying that game, It was fun, but it only lasted a few hours. I was mainly buying it to support the devs, but apparently no one else did.

Thank you JRPG!