Recent sales data that from Japan states that Wii U exclusive Pikmin 3 has sold more copies than the original Pikmin on the GameCube in its first week. However, Pikmin 3 was quite a way away from selling as many copies as Pikmin 2 in its first week in Japan. Here’s a close look at the sales of all Pikmin games to date, along with their sell-through percentages.
- Pikmin – First week: 90,000 (54.9%) | Total sales: 549,000 (2004)
- Pikmin 2 – First week: 160,000 (48.4%) | Total sales: 484,000 (2013)
- Pikmin 3 – First week: 92,720 (48.45%)
Thanks, Gaminglord
Brand new franchise vs Hyped game in an established franchise
I wonder
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WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE ;____________;
he’s cursed.
Beat ya!
Ok, you were beaten, time for retirement.
Good to see you’re failing at every attempt. lol
I kinda miss him not failing though.
He’s giving up on being extremely early.
i just came back to mynintendonews forums today and saw him failing alot.
Nintendo is still doomed
With the billions of dollars they have to keep them alive for decades to come.. Yeah I’d say there doomed#Sarcasm#
Ignoring that Wii U sales increased nearly 200% in Japan because of Pikmin 3 but you want to play dumb and acting like that didn’t happen.
It’s a form of denial, he’s starting to type random text to cope.
if anybody didnt think this game would spike sales of wii u their stupid. come on, its like the only fucking game to come out for the thing and a non milked franchise by nintendo too!!!!!! people are so stupid, they stick their dicks for a corporation and follow them no matter what and bash what they dont follow no matter what.
You are obviously in denial.
Agreed, the Microsoft Realm is finished…
it seems they are. the windows phone is a fail, windows 8 is a fail, xbox 1 is a fail.
1) all sales on PK 1 and PK 2 are retail, there were not downloads at that time, while PK we only have retail sales, no idea how many more Online sales were, an people have a reason to buy online, ti was cheaper)
2) PK 1 released on Oct 26 /2001. this is a high sales season, so for a new IP on an console relatively new at that time its logical to have low numbers.
PK 2 released on April 29/2004 but despise not being on a high sales season, its was a sequel and GC userbase had reached its peak to that time.
3) the other important thing about the dates is that if Media Crate always count Monday to Sunday weeks.
PK 1 released on a Friday, That means It had 3 days worth of sales.
PK 2 released on Thrusday, That means it had 4 days worth of sales
PK 3 released on Saturday, That means it had 2 days Worth on Sales
so, in really the comparison will be
PK 1: 90K Units in 3 day (30K units per day average)
PK 2: 160K Units in 4 days (40K units per day average)
PK 3: 92K + X Units in 2 days (46K + (X/2) Units per day average)
so if you see, PK 3, will be outselling its previous entries
X = Online sales
So that means Metroid Dread is confirmed?
Don’t be silly. Don’t you see it has half life 3 written all over it?
I don’t care for Half Life, I want Metroid Dread.
Aslong as they change the name of the game…
Dread sounds awful and so not Metroid…
In Prime 3, there was a log book saying something about Space Pirates and Project Dread.
very good ty
F*ck yeah! Math!
So if Pikmin 1 and 2 sold at least 90,000 copies in one week, why was people surprised that Pikmin 3 breach 90,000 copies?
Because the Wii U base is much smaller than the GameCube’s on either’s release.
Ignoring that when Pikmin 1 launched, Game cube’s base was much smaller than Wii U’s.
Because no one thought Pikmin 3 would be a “system seller”. Well some people did, but some people are idiots.
1) all sales on PK 1 and PK 2 are retail, there were not downloads at that time, while PK we only have retail sales, no idea how many more Online sales were, an people have a reason to buy online, ti was cheaper)
2) PK 1 released on Oct 26 /2001. this is a high sales season, so for a new IP on an console relatively new at that time its logical to have low numbers.
PK 2 released on April 29/2004 but despise not being on a high sales season, its was a sequel and GC userbase had reached its peak to that time.
3) the other important thing about the dates is that if Media Crate always count Monday to Sunday weeks.
PK 1 released on a Friday, That means It had 3 days worth of sales.
PK 2 released on Thrusday, That means it had 4 days worth of sales
PK 3 released on Saturday, That means it had 2 days Worth on Sales
so, in really the comparison will be
PK 1: 90K Units in 3 day (30K units per day average)
PK 2: 160K Units in 4 days (40K units per day average)
PK 3: 92K + X Units in 2 days (46K + (X/2) Units per day average)
so if you see, PK 3, will be outselling its previous entries
X = Online sales
Other reports actually stated over 100,000 and I think you can add on another 20% for downloads. Thats how I’m going to buy it.
Curious to know when Pikmin 2 and 1 were release since 3 only has 2 days of sales for that “week”, which might not be a fair comparison.
pikmin 3 came out in the middle of the weak, and it did sell more than 92 000 xD like almost 100k i believe? not including digital
These are sales for 2 days right?… wow impressive xD
Yeah, and who knows how many digital sales it had!
I hope it makes justice for this amazong franchise. Pikmin deserves to be on the spot. In Nintendo I always trusted
IKR. The Pikmin games are so good. I hope people start acknowledging the franchise more like Mario and Zelda. It deserves it.
No Digital numbers. 20 % digital sales for a Nitnendo game are pretty much standard now so 100k + (100k * 0.8) = 120k
I meant * 0.2
100k * 0.2 = 20k
lol
oh wow. I’m so dumb. Completely didn’t see the “100k +”
It doesn’t seem like that much to me, but if Nintendo is happy, then alrighty then. :D
Can’t wait until I get to add my purchase to the statistics! I made a mistake downloading Wario Ware, but I feel really confident a Pikmin Download should be a solid decision…
Not a lot game to choose from anyway…
Beautiful…….
Well, it is okay, since the numbers seem to be of only two days. As long as it sells more and keeps the Wii U momentum for a while, it’s fine.
wait a minute!
a couple days ago there was an article that claimed that pikmin 3 sold half its stock (over 90.000 units) in just 2 days.. and now you’re saying that in the following 5 days it sold less than 10.000 units? i call BS on that
2,000 more is not impressive, I doubt any previous Pikmin sold much more than one million worldwide, I doubt Pikmin will sell much more than the previous installments.
read the comments, someone explained why the article is wrong
But wasn’t the Gamecube about 3 years old by then? If so, that makes a huge difference.
Never mind. I feel stupid. However, Pikmin 3 adds digital sales plus a shorter week to sell, so the numbers for 3 probably are much higher.
wii u daily is for nintendo dick riders……. stupid pussies. im doing sickr’s sick twisted job of telling that other websites suck, as for this site….. almost everyone on here are anonymous pussies who make stupid alts and jokes. fuck you losers. hash tag nintendo fanboys trending on twitter, support 3rd party because this is advise that will help. oh no…. ok lets just dig nintendo a grave with the vita. nintendo in irrelevancy now. ok done.
yur such a tool dude
I dont understand spain. Can you speak/write english? I really would like to know what you are trying to say, it must be something very important. Something what gives your life a common purpose perrhaps?
Duuuuuuuude , that was lame .
just as lame as most nintendo fans. is there such thing as a normal non retarded nintendo fan, dang i wouldn’t be caught dead liking nintendo because half of these or most of these weaboo dick riders give there whole life away to a name or a brand they like. why, who knows i guess there just pathetic. its not true what i wrote too, it wasnt trolling or trying to be funny. my pikmin 3 story for example is when im making a joke.
its true what i wrote too.
They ard retar
They are retarded , that I agree with , but let’s not use insults and get down to their level .
I’m sorry you feel that way about yourself…
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this or not, but aren’t the total sales in the article for Pikmin 1 & 2 for the New Play Control versions? I thought the GCN originals sold over a million total worldwide.
Those numbers are just for the first week during the Gamecube era…
Let’s celebrate when it surpasses the top-selling game ever. Till then, the Wii U will still need a lot more than that, especially since Pikmin 3 was posited to be the game that saved the Wii U this year.
Also note that Pikmin 3 was released on the 13th and the sales week ended on the 14th, so Pikmin 3 sold 92k in ONE DAY which is prett impressive
2 days. It’s inclusive of the 14th.
2 days. It’s inclusive of the 14th.
Just read that at vg24/7 too? Seems like everyone is posting the same junk these days… Glad the game is doing well in Japan though. Hopefully it has sales just as good in Europe and US.
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there is a turtle beach wii u headset dude
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I SAID SPOEAKER MIC NOT HEAD SET THAT IS THE EXACT POINT IM MAKING HERE
DUMB MOTHER FUCKERS DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE
Lol
How has anyone not posted about the best buy deals they got for the wii u games
Assassin’s creed 3 and call of duty black ops 2 for $20 each. I just ordered mine.
DO U BITCHES REALIZE THOSE ARE 2 DAYS OF SALES ONLY?
lol. Tell them, notice how the non believers, drones, xbots, trolls orcs, goblins and haters have all stopped down playing the WiiU. Pikmin 3 is a growing IP, imagine when the more established franchises arrive :).
Indeed, those Xbot infected fools will never reach our Empire’s supremacy level…
While the Sonyans and others like them rathe rbecome like the Apple Goblins playing on a pathetic tablet with games worth less than my disposable waste…
OH AND BTW ITS JUST RETAIL SALES NOT ESHOP SALES ;)
supreme kiddie shit. lol
now go roll in your shit, haha, feeling all supreme over a single spike in sales, talk about grabbing at straws. lol.
Cry harder.:P
This isn’t news, this is common sense. Ppl’re already familiar with the Pikmin title, and since they liked it, they bought it out. I’m guessing, based on sales though, that after 2 some of those ppl got bored of it.
Umm…ROCK PIKMIN!
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