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Avinash_Tyagi on 26 June 2009

Not necessarily, 155K first day, means probably 200K-350K by end of the first week



 

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TheSource on 26 June 2009

No 155,000 is a great day one total. It will be over 300,000 for the week - it has June 26, June 27, and June 28 yet. It has a shot at 400,000 for the week.



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mrstickball on 26 June 2009

I wonder if Nintendo will ship extra copies this week. Otherwise, sales should hit 300-325k.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

TheSource on 26 June 2009

I suspect they'll have to. It isn't going to drop off quickly with a fanbase of over 3 million from the previous title.



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Aj_habfan on 26 June 2009
TheSource said:

No 155,000 is a great day one total. It will be over 300,000 for the week - it has June 26, June 27, and June 28 yet. It has a shot at 400,000 for the week.

Gotcha, thought it was 2 day week.



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Aj_habfan on 26 June 2009
Soriku said:
Marvelous :( Even Valhalla Knights on PSP can't help them a bit.

If the game was on Wii there'd be a ton of posts about how Wii can't sell third party SW >_> But a VH Wii is coming soon...

It's pretty much a re-release of a game that wasn't popular to begin with, no surprise here.



Avinash_Tyagi on 26 June 2009

now all that remains to be seen is if WSR is moving hardware as well as software



 

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Erik Aston on 26 June 2009

Good, but not overwhelming opening for WSR.

Japan should be its weak region though, because of no WS bundle.



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trestres on 26 June 2009

Will Wii Sports get a bump?



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TheSource on 26 June 2009

Wii Sports has been selling at about 1/3 to 1/5 the rate the Wii has sold in recent weeks in Japan. ~4.1k vs 18k this week.

If Wii Sports Resort pushes Wii to 40k or something this week, I would think Wii Sports 1 would only sell at about a 1/6 to 1/8 rate of what the Wii sells. So it will get a bump but attach at a lower rate to Wii hardware. That should be the pattern long term as Wii Sports becomes slightly less essential to the Wii experience in Japan every time a new game...like a Wii Fit, a Wii Music or a Wii Sports Resort comes out.

So figure it will jump to 6k or something this week.

 



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