No More Heroes: not a bomb
by JC Fletcher 
on Feb 15th 2008 8:00PM
Looks like all the anecdotal "I bought it!"
evidence was accurate: Marvelous Interactive president Yasuhiro Wada announced on the company's website that
No More Heroes has sold 100,000 copies in the U.S. Compare that to the 40,000 that
shipped in Japan and it's clear that what once
was a bomb is now kind of a hit for our favorite video game band, Grasshopper Manufacture. NPD doesn't seem to agree, reporting
65,000 copies sold in the U.S. in January. We don't know if Marvelous's numbers are from a different estimate or including February or what.
Marvelous is shipping 160,000 copies to Europe, as they expect even
more demand. This may be the reason for the
brief delay. Overall, they are shooting for 500,000 total sales. That may not sound huge by most game standards, but for a tiny company like Grasshopper, and for such a bizarre game, that's
huge.[Via
NeoGAF]
