Super Mario 3D Land and 3DS sales also soar.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/28548
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime revealed some impressive statistics regarding the sales of the Nintendo 3DS as well as two of their holiday titles in a recent USA Today interview.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, released last week, sold an impressive 535,000 copies. According to Fils-Aime, this makes Skyward Sword the fastest selling Zelda title of all time.
Similarly, Super Mario 3D Land, released on November 13, has sold over 500,000 copies since its launch. This makes Super Mario 3D Land the fastest-selling portable Mario title for the company.
The 3DS also had strong sales in the past week. Sales for the system rose 325% above sales for the week of November 6, the week before Super Mario 3D Land's release. The week during Super Mario 3D Lands release only saw a 49% rise. This surge in sales has allowed the 3DS to pass the Nintendo DS's total first year sales.
It was also revealed that during Black Friday sales alone, the Nintendo Wii sold 500,000 units.
These sales numbers are good, but I have to admit after weeks of seeing Skyrim or Modern Warfare 3 selling millions of units in the same or less amount of time, seeing Zelda "only" sell half a million copies is a little...underwhelming by comparison. Still, it's a good start for Zelda, though we'll see what kind of legs this game has, especially in Japan (considering they were relatively lukewarm on Twilight Princess).
So you take a system with a large userbase, release virtually nothing for an entire year, finally release a big title around Christmas and $$$.
The N64 used to have this all the time. Every time a big first party release came out it would sell like gangbusters with N64 owners starving for a new title.
Super Mario 3D Land is very similar. Every 3DS owner has been dying for some sort of decent game so they all grabbed the first one to show up. I would hate it if Nintendo decided this was a good strategy.
These sales numbers are good, but I have to admit after weeks of seeing Skyrim or Modern Warfare 3 selling millions of units in the same or less amount of time, seeing Zelda "only" sell half a million copies is a little...underwhelming by comparison. Still, it's a good start for Zelda, though we'll see what kind of legs this game has, especially in Japan (considering they were relatively lukewarm on Twilight Princess).
So you are saying Super Mario 3D Land or Skyward Sword do not deserve to sell well?
I wonder if the reason that Nintendo never have record opening sales is because they don't produce millions of copies for release. Knowing Nintendo's conservative nature, I wouldn't be surprised if those 500,000-some copies were about all Nintendo shipped for the week.
Most of the time its that no one bother to put it out on launch...I wonder if the reason that Nintendo never have record opening sales is because they don't produce millions of copies for release. Knowing Nintendo's conservative nature, I wouldn't be surprised if those 500,000-some copies were about all Nintendo shipped for the week.
The only Nintendo product I have not been able to get ahold of on day one has been the Wii system itself. Maybe I just live in a good area for this but the supply always seems to be good. You never get the scenario where the store only got one copy with Nintendo.
