I'm just pointing out that Nintendo first-party games tend to sell well for years, and are not as frontloaded as most games are. Of course, this might change on the Wii and (I've said before) people should watch Galaxy's sales from now until next summer to see if that's the case here.
@Laoldar, So the market is realling thinking ahead huh? And what should happen to this stock if November numbers in the USA arn't good. Like if it's under a million...stocks aren't looking so good the closer it comes to the NPD report being released....
While this title is likely overpriced, don't make the mistake of only considering the current install base of the Wii.
Big first-party Nintendo titles tend to sell consistently over the entire lifespan of the console and Nintendo doesn't tend to release competing games (ie, there likely won't be another Mario platformer on the Wii).
How is this at 14 million copies sold when there's only like 15mil wii's sold world wide? And this game isn't even doing well in Japan...it's doing really bad apparently...
@jsmrekar, The key thing here is not that Costco has 50 copies of them but that Costco still has 50 copies of it that haven't been sold yet. It would be interesting to see how many they started with and how fast they flew off the shelves during Black Friday.
The problem with Mario Galaxy is the hype has pushed the value of the stock up higher than the actual sales can attain in three weeks. With all the news of people wanting a copy of the game, how much do we know about those that actually purchased it? Most people who want it will purchase the game during launch while those who are getting it as a gift or who are undecided will most likely wait to buy it until some time in December. The Decembers futures will be interesting to watch but November has been pretty well saturated and now we are just seeing the hype wear off it.
Just saw this on digg... 1.1 Million in 2 weeks I haven't been here in so long, i dont remember if you think vgchartz is valid or not, but still. That is a hot item. I saw 50 copies at costco, does that mean these 50 copies were part of the 1.1 million? or do they wait till costco sells them to record them?
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Even if it is under one million, thats still very good for a Mario. Nintendo said their 500k first week was the highest first week for a Mario ever!