@pilias_simber, agreed. I think the publishers get all their data from NPD anyways. I am not exactly sure where they are getting their data midmonth as I don't think NPD releases their data to clients weekly at all. However, I also don't think they are talking about the number of units they have shipped. I'd like to hear more thoughts as that is the key to the June future.
Considering the article was written on the 2nd I seriously doubt they were basing their numbers off of July 1st sales data, more than likely it was at least a week old data.
@mithrilwind, are you referring to June sales? I don't really care about what VGChartz has to say, but I do know that NPD reported 314.4k copies sold in the US in May. There was a press release on July 2 from Nintendo that indicated Mario Party 8 has sold 550,000 copies since May 29. That would leave 235k sales in June up until they put out this press release. Since the press release came out July 2, lets assume they were able to get updated numbers from the week ending July 1. That gives one more week in the June retail calendar month for sales. In that case, 331,700 copies may be a bit high. Thoughts?
Hate to be the bad guy, but wouldn't the VGchartz figures indicate a clear deceleration of sales? Now I think the total sales of this game are probably accurate and sales will pick up again during the Christmas season but I don't think 300-400k is realistic.
Last weeks sales were 49,320. Assuming sales stayed steady, it would sell approx 200k or a range of 180-220k with a 10% VGchartz deviation.
Personally, I think sales in July are going to continue to decrease at a rate of around 10-25% as current trend indicates. I think I'll be attempting to short this one against all popular odds. :)
That's a total of 336,910. Given June is a five week period, I'm predicting another 35,000 last week. That puts the 'June' figure at 371,910.
As we all know, VGC is not accurate, so give or take 10%, that would give us a range of 334,719 to 409,101. I'd be conservative and take the lower figure.
Still a bit more room to move. At least according to VGC.
As of the end of May, the Wii had sold 2.8 million units in America -- given some 300k sold in June as has been customary in recent months, that would put it's total at 3.1 million or thereabouts. 550k units on 3.1 million hardware is 18%.
Yep, everything points to a monster month for Mario Party 8. Add to the fact that this is a 5-week period and I think 35DKP/350k should be the bare minimum return to expect here.
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