The sales are dissapointing. But I wouldn't call it a bomb considering it's still likely going to outsell most games and make back the money invested in it along with some profit on top.

Bomb is usually reserved for titles like Battlefield Earth that set a company back money wise because nobody is seeing it.

@ Gamerace

We're not fanboys here, we just want some fairness...  This game underperformed, that's all I want to hear.  It's not that people want to gloat, it's just that people want to say how bad any AAA title does on any system if it's first day sales are around where SMG is but in this case, these first day sales are messed up, or unbelievable...  But if it had performed up to expectations, no one would question this source of our first day sales... that's all I'm saying.

Vengi said: takkxyz, you really have to play the bonus levels of portal, they are great....if you don't have a problem with motion sickness that is The time trials will have you thinking "oh my...how could i have been so blind" OT First day sales of a big game tend to be pretty misleading they rarely affect the final sales of the a game, lets at least wait for the first week sales before claiming that it "bombed". btw what was the install based of the DS when NSMB launched?

I'd really like to, but I get extremly motion sickness over some of the levels. The same went for Half-Life 2 and it's episodes. Basically the only game that I play without motion sickness is Team Fortress 2.

On-Topic: Perhaps it is true that Mario Galaxy may bomb... but we usually compare the first-week anyway, first-day is not always necessarily indicative of the whole trend.  

Anything with 700,000 preorders is never a bomb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Galaxy

"Super Mario Galaxy (スーパーマリオギャラクシー, Sūpā Mario Gyarakushī^?) is a 3D action-platformer game developed by ^[3]Nintendo EAD Tokyo and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It is currently the most preordered Wii software title, with 700,000 in Japan, and 400,000 in the U.S. placed through Gamestop stores.^[4][5]"

John Lucas 

 First day on a weekday at sales of 130,000 is underperforming! Im sorry this thread fails so hard, A half million total for the week (or close to it) is a great start, notice how it is the Sony people who say it underperformed........

John Lucas, we're talking about Japan, not America...

Im still surprised that sony fans are the only ones arguing that it bombed when its going to outsell everything on the ps3 on its first week :|

I totally get where your coming from, because your right about what to expect from the first week, but this isn't just about Wii hype and Mario's popular franchise. Many people have been reading news like this:

http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2007/10/04/japanese-super-mario-galaxy-pre-orders-exceed-700000.htm

Stories like this that tout 700,000 preorders, made people expect a million seller for week one. And your figuring in your head more people will preorder prior to launch, more will pick it up without a preorder. I mean right now with sales projections it won't surpass Dragon Quest: Swords first week, that was a spinoff title released midsummer with medicore reviews. Seriously? This just doesn't make sense, forget fanboyism, I understand people questioning the figures. 

@ Alexie Di Onie

If you read the post you'd understand that I didn't say the game has bombed, I'm saying for it to be a AAA game that everyone was hoping to sell millions of units, it doesn't look too good, that's all I'm saying. The game has done well in terms of a regular game but a AAA game like SMG should have sold better.

@carlos710
PS4 said it bombed, everyone else said its disappointing. And please 130 k in a day for the main mario title? Pathetic. The user base is 2 mil more. It SHOULD SELL MORE THAN A PS3 TITLES.

@ John Lucas
Maybe you should tell the 570k users who preordered it to go get it. Wikipedia? c'mon you can do better than that!