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SSBB sells 1 million copies in debut week

February 03, 2008 in News comments 6

The popular Nintendo game Super Smash Brothers Brawl has already sold 1 million copies in it's first week. Though there was news of their being big shortages in Japan to get a copy of the game, it still managed to reach 1 million. Not bad at all. It outsold the recently release Devil May Cry 4 that did well on it's own at 200,000 copies. This is Japan's largest opening week in nine months.

This is a huge week in sales for Japan. Smash Brothers sold roughly 1,000,000 units in its debut week, but two other titles debuted with sales of over 100,000 – including Devil May Cry 4 which hit 205,000 for PS3. The Smash Brothers debut is the largest opening week in Japan in at least nine months. Adjusted for their console bases, Smash Brothers reached about 20% of Wii owners in week one, while Devil May Cry 4 reached about 11% of all PS3s owners (and a comparable number of Xbox 360 owners) in week one. Riding on Devil May Cry 4’s coat tails, four other PS3 titles were in the preliminary top twenty this week – quite the feat considering that no PS3 title had appeared in the preliminary data since early December.
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    Miss Razz Feb 3, 08
    So it looks like the understocking issue has been resolved?
    They sure made a big deal out of the understocking, but in the end it doesn't seem like it was a problem?
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    Seeker X Feb 4, 08
    Well comparing it to DMC4 would be abit unfair, seeing as A LOT of people were letdown by the demo...and quite frankly it's just a juiced up DMC3.

    Not to mention, everyone with a Wii was going to get this, just like Super Mario Galaxy, simply because these are the games the Wii was really made for, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
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      Final Blade Feb 4, 08
      Seeker i disagree, DMC4, the final game will be bigger than any DMC game, and thats fact. I mean the demo wasn't new, maybe for some people, it was just the same old shit from the summer in the japan game show. It wasn't anything new. So taking that demo and to compare it to the final game is sorta pathetic and moronic. The final game will sell alot. Sure 200,000 is alright for one area in the first week, but if they made it worldwide i suspect it would have beated brawl's numbers two fold.

      BTW im getting it tomorrow Wooo!
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    Play ISDF Feb 4, 08
    Soooo, how does 1 million copies sold equal having only 30,000 made? Someone screwed up somewhere, that or Nintendo just wanted to make people swarm over Brawl and get people angry and such...ha...ha, good one...
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    Storm Feb 4, 08
    I bet it would have been more copies sold if that 'understocking' wasn't an issue...or was it? 1 million, as Play ISDF mentioned, is certainly more than the 30,000 said to have been shipped.
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    neto_360 Feb 4, 08
    It appears they fixed the problem with under stocking. I agree that this game had the potential to sell way more copies, but this is still a good start.

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