Super Smash Bros. Brawl’s 500k Final Smash of Japan
Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 11:11am by Jack
Has Super Smash Bros. Brawl smashed, clobbered and otherwise surpassed sales expectations in Japan? Seems so, according to some Final Smash-level rumors pouring out of the Far East this morning:
Cubed3 has a translation of a Japanese blog post referencing a purportedly leaked Famitsu sales report that says the highly-anticipated game sold 500,000 copies, or 80 percent of available stock, on its first day of Japanese release.
The sourcing is admittedly not very concrete, but the number does seem plausible given reports of retail shortages and the game’s strong showing on the Amazon Japan charts. Then again, Super Mario Galaxy only sold 250,000 copies (edit: fixed typo) in it’s entire first week of release, and that was during the highly-charged holiday season.
Regardless of the final number, it looks to outsell Galaxy pretty easily. Does this mean all the punditry was wrong once again about the Wii when it drew all of those “conclusions” about Galaxy’s poor first week sales and what it meant for Nintendo and it’s Wii strategy!? Oh me oh my, maybe it does!
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February 4th, 2008 at 11:16 am
cool cool but I want factor5 news please
February 4th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Early Data from VGChartz shows the game may have sold as many as 1M in it’s first week.
Initial shipment was around 625k, of which 500k were sold on the first day.
The second shipment came Saturday, and it was rumored to be 50% more than the initial shipment.
1M for the first week seems very plausible.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Mario Galaxy did not have great numbers right out of the gate, but it does have legs. Every week it seems to be in or near the top 10. It will break a million soon. whether sales are slow and steady or huge immediately, I’m sure Nintendo doesn’t care. Either way they make money.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Pfft, hardcore games don’t sell on the wii, only wagglesfests.
Haha, just goes to show that when a games that’s actualy of high quality comes out for the Wii people will buy it.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I have no doubt that this game will be the best selling game of all time. I think it is also going to be a huge system seller (as if you can actually find a wii to buy). SMG was ranked the best game ever, all I can say, is move over Galaxy, a new leader is coming.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I’d say it’ll hit a million within the week.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I would just love it if SSBB would topple Halo 3 as the fastest selling game ever, and the thing is it will continue to sell for the entire life of the console (if SSBM is any indication). I think it even has the potential to become the best selling game of all time, even though that is a long shot, if anything can do it SSBB can.
February 5th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
@NinKenDo
Be wary in saying this around those fanatic Halo-fanboys, or they kill ya in sight for saying such ‘blasphemy’.