Mr. Casamassina apparantly can't figure out that Nintendo are reporting sales from the last 6 months, not LTD.
He doesn't seem able to seperate editorials about how bad Wii Play is or how good Metroid is from what should be "just the news."
Despite claiming "six million sellers" he only lists five. (The sixth is Super Paper Mario.)
And it appears he got the actual sales numbers wrong, listing 11.1M for Wii Sports instead of 11.9, and 1.8M for BBA instead of 1.4.
GoNintendo posted what appeared to be a page straight from Nintendo in JPG form. It lists the Japan and overseas sales of each million selling Wii and DS title from the April-September period.
Straight from Nintendo, I can find verification of some of the numbers from the GoNintendo list, on pages 3 and 4 of this text version of Nintendo's financial briefings: http://gonintendo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/nintenabsatz.jpg
You know the problem in Europe, numbers are hard to get. But the uk Wii charts are online, also overall and the German retail charts I saw in a shop today. Resident Evil 4 Wii is still selling (#8 on the Wii) #1 was paper mario, #2 Boogie #3 Big Brain Academy. Tiger Woods was #5 or #6 (Damm it, i should took a foto).
How high the actual numbers are? Well if we think Big Brain Academy sells well in all major European countries (eg. top 30) My guess would be somewhere between 6-8 thousand a week, but thats really just a guess.
@Just_Ben, You seem familiar with European sales data, so I'll ask you: what does "high on the Wii charts" translate to, numbers wise? What is considered to be a "good" number of copies moved across the PAL region for a Wii game (or anything else, for that matter)? Also, where is a good site to get European numbers from?
VGC updates it others (Europe) data not every week. Just time after time if new public data gets available. And it will sell more, it is high in the Wii charts in UK and in Germany (don't know of others European countrys)
^^^According to GoNintendo, coming via Nintendo's recent quarterly report I assume, this game has already shipped 1.38 million copies.
I would guess that VGChartz undertracked sales of the game (in Europe?), but that sell-through of the game is still significantly below that 1.38M, and that LTD shipments may remain at 1.38M for quite some time.
Regardless, I see this as a bullish sign. Retaillers will get rid of any excess copies of the game somehow. Especially if Wii hardware supply is tight this Xmas, they'll be able to push this game in bundles.
At first i was just interested in the idea of playing video games to sharpen your brain. But when i read this article about the multiplayer addition i think im going to go out and buy it first chance i get. I think mixing the creativity of the Wii remote and the amazing idea of using video games to learn better will work out very well with todays crowd.
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