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#1 BlueBlur

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Posted 16 July 2013 - 05:02 PM

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Nintendo is counting a lot on Pikmin 3 to drive the sales of the Wii U, and one day before the release of the Media Create software and hardware charts there are already signals of some degree of success.

The major japanese retailer and rental chain Tsutaya released its own weekly charts and Pikmin 3 is indeed at the top, followed by Level 5′s Youkai Watch, Earth Defense Force 4 and the two version of Toukiden (the PS Vita version is 4th and the PSP version is 5th).

According to Taketo Matsuo, Tsutaya’s Director of  the Game Rental Planning Group, strong sales of the game are also moving units of the console (as reported by ManTanWeb).

  

  "Pikmin 3, that came out nine years after Pikmin 2, is having a really good start. Sales at Tsutaya are comparable to the release of Super Mario Bros U and have driven greater sales of  Wii U units."

 

The fact that he used Super Mario Bros U as a term of comparisons helps us put the statement in perspective: during its first week of sale in Japan Mario’s latest platformer moved 163,528 units, which is a very respectable amount, even if it was completely beaten by Yakuza 5 (that sold 356,757 copies). Of course that was the release week of the Wii U in Japan, so the installed base was still very small.

Tomorrow we’ll get last week’s Media Create sales charts and we’ll be able to see just how much Pikmin 3 helped the Wii U in the archipelago of the rising sun.


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Posted 16 July 2013 - 05:30 PM

I'm thinking 200,000 units for Pikmin 3 and 20,000 units for the Wii U.


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Posted 16 July 2013 - 05:49 PM

I'm thinking 250k overall sales by the end of this week. Maybe 20k-30k systems. Anyone got sales data for NPC! Pikmn and Pikmin 2? That would help figure out a good number.


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Posted 16 July 2013 - 07:48 PM

Wow I thought Japan doesn't care about it. Now all we need is to tripple the ammount of sales in the U.S.


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Posted 16 July 2013 - 11:21 PM

Great news! Now it just needs to do well in NA and Europe and we're off to a great fall/winter season for the Wii U  :)


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Posted 16 July 2013 - 11:25 PM

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 12:13 AM

Well this is awsome news, I already expected this though to be honest, I mean Pikmin has alot of fans and it's been more or less dead for a decade so. I think they should do a Pikmin 3 Wii U Premium Console bundle for the people who didn't get a Wii U because they were waiting for this game.



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Posted 17 July 2013 - 07:11 AM

Woah! Pikmin 3 is #1 on the Japanese game software charts and the Wii U is #2 on the hardware charts! 

 

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This is awesome news!


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Posted 17 July 2013 - 08:01 AM

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 08:19 AM

Considering this is the first new release in months for the wiiu, why are people supprised?

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 09:27 AM

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Considering this is the first new release in months for the wiiu, why are people supprised?


No disrespect but your posts are always negative and even when someone posts something positive like in this thread you turn it into a negative. If you're that disappointed in the Wii U why don't you just sell it and why are you posting here especially all your negative comments.

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Posted 17 July 2013 - 10:27 AM

No disrespect but your posts are always negative and even when someone posts something positive like in this thread you turn it into a negative. If you're that disappointed in the Wii U why don't you just sell it and why are you posting here especially all your negative comments.

its not negative, i'm just wondering why people are surprised, it's like saying that people are surprised when GTA5 is top of the charts later this year.



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Posted 17 July 2013 - 10:32 AM

Could have done better if Nintendo made a special bundle.


 

 


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Posted 17 July 2013 - 10:40 AM

No disrespect but your posts are always negative and even when someone posts something positive like in this thread you turn it into a negative. If you're that disappointed in the Wii U why don't you just sell it and why are you posting here especially all your negative comments.

 

It's called trolling.  Some people get off by putting down Nintendo consoles. They spend more time on Nintendo sites than Sony/MS sites as they can't stand to have anybody like Nintendo systems.  Maybe it's all the butt-hurt on how Nintendo has kicked Sony's ass on the handheld front 2 generations in a row!!!



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Posted 17 July 2013 - 12:12 PM

Woah! Pikmin 3 is #1 on the Japanese game software charts and the Wii U is #2 on the hardware charts! 

 

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This is awesome news!

 

Pikmin was released on the 13th and these sales only count to the 14th.

Am I reading something wrong or does that mean Pikmin sold 90k+ copies in 2 days?

Also, it almost tripled hardware sales in that same amount of time?



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Posted 17 July 2013 - 01:02 PM

 

Pikmin was released on the 13th and these sales only count to the 14th.

Am I reading something wrong or does that mean Pikmin sold 90k+ copies in 2 days?

Also, it almost tripled hardware sales in that same amount of time?

 

 

It sold that in 2 days. Actually, there`s another tracker saying it`s above 100k. Famitsu i guess.


 

 


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Posted 17 July 2013 - 02:18 PM

Well, the charts only tracked the games until July 14 as per the normal schedule so the sales seen are just the result of 2 days since Pikmin was released July 13. Let's see the sales this week.


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Posted 17 July 2013 - 02:54 PM

Woah! Pikmin 3 is #1 on the Japanese game software charts and the Wii U is #2 on the hardware charts! 

 

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This is awesome news!

Which is only beaten by Nintendo's 3DS XL! :)


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Posted 17 July 2013 - 03:01 PM

Don't have a huge amount of interest in the game.... Might eventually get it.  I am glad to see it doing well for Nintendo's sake.



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Posted 19 July 2013 - 05:21 AM

It's called trolling.  Some people get off by putting down Nintendo consoles. They spend more time on Nintendo sites than Sony/MS sites as they can't stand to have anybody like Nintendo systems.  Maybe it's all the butt-hurt on how Nintendo has kicked Sony's ass on the handheld front 2 generations in a row!!!

I wouldn't really call it trolling or negative. I saw it as a genuine and sensible question.

Anyway this is certainly good news, I'm just curious to see wii u console sales keep up in the coming weeks.


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