@Dictionary, This to me appears to be one of those titles that make it onto a special list where it is sold at $20-30 new after it has died on the shelf. This will then breathe new life into the title and it will sell again, for a while. I forget what nintendo calls these kind of things.
This article from Next-gen.biz claims that Big Brain Academy only sold 1.3 million in North America and Europe up to 1 March 2008. If it shipped around 380k in Japan, not sold, then there is reason to believe that this stock has become overvalued. Nintendo's shipped numbers in this case might not have indicated near how much the game actually sold, they may have overestimated demand after initial figures and over shipped to retailers. Currently this will have sold only 1.7 million max (1.3 million sold in North America + Europe and .380 million (max) shipped to Japan). It remains to be seen how much this game is actually selling to determine how it will eventually end up.
@ErikAston, the hyperlinks used to convert automatically. But I think it was preferred to allow you to label them instead of long URLs so they changed it a while back.
Do other people have more thoughts about the legs of this title? I'm surprised it wasn't picked up for delisting.
@ErikAston, I don't know why someone downbid you, but it would help providing a hyperlink in the future. At least in Firefox, part of the link is hidden because it is so long. Thanks.
I'm very bullish on this game. I don't think it will track above the DS version forever, but I do think that chart bodes well for it moving at least 3 million copies.
Shipment numbers give a very good indication of sales numbers, especially for titles which have been released for a while now. Only titles that keep selling will get new orders from retailers and the shipment numbers will go up compared to previous quarters. This title remained at 380k shipped to Japan, so no new shipments there, but it when up from 990k to 1.62M for the rest of the world. Specifically in Europe where the game is only 30 euros the game seems to be selling pretty well and is likely to have very long legs. I would be very surprised when in 3 months time Nintendo releases new shipment information this title won't have gone up again.
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This to me appears to be one of those titles that make it onto a special list where it is sold at $20-30 new after it has died on the shelf. This will then breathe new life into the title and it will sell again, for a while. I forget what nintendo calls these kind of things.