I think for a game that is getting so many sales from Europe, taking shipment numbers and subtracting several hundred K will be just as accurate as trying to add up sales estimates from every country in Europe and the handful of other notable markets. Missing a fairly small country could miss 100K or 200K sales.
Arbiter was saying just in February that the game likely wouldn't hit 12M units, and then it shipped 10.83M through March. And it will probably ship another 1M units over the April-June period.
And I said I wouldn't speculate about 14 or 15M units in February, but now I don't know how this stock can be valued below 14M units. How the stock has fallen over the last month is beyond me.
Maybe its just because I've come to expect the unreasonable from Nintendo over the last year, but I'd honestly peg lifetime sales of Brain Age 1 at about 19M, and BA2 sales at about 16M right now. I just think the launch of BA2 has pushed the series to Nintendogs levels in Europe. Granted, the original game is generally charting higher.
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I think for a game that is getting so many sales from Europe, taking shipment numbers and subtracting several hundred K will be just as accurate as trying to add up sales estimates from every country in Europe and the handful of other notable markets. Missing a fairly small country could miss 100K or 200K sales.
Arbiter was saying just in February that the game likely wouldn't hit 12M units, and then it shipped 10.83M through March. And it will probably ship another 1M units over the April-June period.
And I said I wouldn't speculate about 14 or 15M units in February, but now I don't know how this stock can be valued below 14M units. How the stock has fallen over the last month is beyond me.
Maybe its just because I've come to expect the unreasonable from Nintendo over the last year, but I'd honestly peg lifetime sales of Brain Age 1 at about 19M, and BA2 sales at about 16M right now. I just think the launch of BA2 has pushed the series to Nintendogs levels in Europe. Granted, the original game is generally charting higher.
Numbers.