Rumor: Smash Bros. Brawl sells 500K on first day in Japan
by Kyle Orland 
on Feb 1st 2008 12:30PM
Already this week we've run leaked
trailers,
information and
gameplay videos of
Super Smash Bros. Brawl ... so why not add leaked sales numbers to that list? 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. Has
Smash Bros. Brawl shattered Japanese sales expectations, or is something getting lost in translation here? You'll know as soon as we do.
