So a comparitively strong showing in Europe, and second week figures will be interesting, but to be honest, the initial numbers here from do not suggest it will reach the 4.1million predicted. I know with two weeks worth of data it is hard to extrapolate but Japan seems to be tailing towards the underside of the 250k mark. America i would say will not reach far past the 1.5million mark at best, 420k after 3 weeks for such a hyped game, and with such a dropoff is not a good showing in my opinion. Europe is hard to tell with only one weeks data but again only 275k first week sales do not indicate a monster that would be needed to make up for America and Japan's shortcomings.
NPD data later today showing how accurate VGC has been will be the best sign of how many this will do.
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America
Week 1 - 144,434
Week 2 - 204,185
Week 3 - 66,278
Japan
Week 1 - 49,839
Week 2 - 17,666
Europe
Week 1 - 274,410
So a comparitively strong showing in Europe, and second week figures will be interesting, but to be honest, the initial numbers here from do not suggest it will reach the 4.1million predicted. I know with two weeks worth of data it is hard to extrapolate but Japan seems to be tailing towards the underside of the 250k mark. America i would say will not reach far past the 1.5million mark at best, 420k after 3 weeks for such a hyped game, and with such a dropoff is not a good showing in my opinion. Europe is hard to tell with only one weeks data but again only 275k first week sales do not indicate a monster that would be needed to make up for America and Japan's shortcomings.
NPD data later today showing how accurate VGC has been will be the best sign of how many this will do.