Just to update the WFC numbers. For the week ending Nov 4 (first full week of numbers for this game), Guitar Hero 3 waas NUMBER 2 for worldwide connections, with over 622,000 connections and second only to Pokemon Diamond/Pearl. This was more than double the connections for Animal Crossing, Mario Kart and Mario Strikers Charged (individually).
I'm not claiming that this game moved anywhere near 600,000 units. I'm simply pointing out that it's quite popular. I saw some users on here estimating sales by the number of accounts on guitarhero.com and I feel that most Wii users won't bother to link their accounts to that site.
I say there where more than 2 connection/person that has this thing online. Look at the leaderboard. There are at the moment 25 k Wii's online rocking.
I think it's pretty much impossible to estimate numbers from this. For one thing, we have no idea how many Wii owners will take this online right away (I have not yet) because for many people it will be their first GH and they'll want to play it a few times first.
I just thought it was interesting to note that there were so many connections for one day comparing it to other popular WiFi games.
OK, how many would you say it is. I'm thinking on average we won't see more than 2 connections/person in a 24 hour period, many will only connect once, some more than once so it would average out to 2 connections/sale.
I wouldn't say that 122k connections = 60k sales. Well basically 24DKP the price the market seems to agree on, an I won't short it, because it got to hot for me to dump more money into it. So I let it drive and wait for NPD I'll guess.
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