Best Launch for Solo Sonic Ever on Wii, DS
After a slow start in the first couple of weeks in Europe, we have good news to start off this week: If the actual numbers are anything close to what the independent website VGChartz is reporting of Sonic Colors‘s launch week, Americans are eating up both versions of the game.
The website reports more than 64,000 copies of the Wii edition were sold during Colors‘s domestic launch week, the week of November 14th, and that makes it the best in-region launch performance for a solo-Sonic game on a home console in the Wii’s history. February 2007′s Sonic and the Secret Rings originally held that title, with about 50,000 sold during its launch week in North America. On the DS, side, more than 43,000 copies of the game were sold–the best in-region solo-Sonic launch ever on the DS. Together, the games tallied more than 108,000 copies sold for launch week. (For the record, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games sold far and away above these levels on both systems in its launch week.)
These are not Call of Duty numbers by any means; however, they are almost certain to go up when the next round is released, as week 2 numbers will factor in heavy Black Friday shopping. If it maintains or even goes up from there through the Holiday season, America will bear the lion’s share of a sales success. Both Sega and fans have to be excited.
We will keep tabs on future sales estimates released.
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I hope it sells more so we can get the HD version and then it sells even more because SEGA mad the best Sonic 3D game at last.
Here comes the PS3 and X360 port soon.
If they sell good enough, I´m sure they will port it if they know they will sell even more on the other two consoles. Maybe they are doing the port as we speak…
Nice!
Phew, I was getting worried people would completely gloss over this one and Sega would get the erroneous idea that it wasn’t a totally fantastic game.
Glad to have actually helped with the launch sales for once. Technically it was a gift, but close enough
Beat the game, and only 9 more red emblems to go! I can’t help but feel slightly cheated by that “40 hour” promise though. I thought it was kind of too easy, and I beat it in 10 hours even though I deliberately tried to extend the length by replaying old levels and collecting emblems before continuing. It’d also be nice to see them attempt it with more 3D sections in the future. Still a great game though.
@Blippa
I unlocked Super Sonic and it was so worth it!
@Blippa
lol, who told you that Colors will be 40 hrs long? I hear that the game can take over 20 hours if you’re going for all S ranks and red rings. I beat the game and unlocked Super Sonic under 20 hrs and it’s soooo worth all the hard work!
@sonicfan:
It was in one of the articles posted here, during a Q&A at E3 or something. I don’t remember now where it was. Maybe it was 20 now that I think about it, but the point was that it made it sound like a long game. I definitely am not done playing it, but I was just a little surprised at the length is all. I guess if one was completely new to the series and died a lot then maybe it’d be much longer, but I’m at maybe 13-14 hours and I’m almost done with the red rings.
Great start I guess. We finally get a super good Sonic game after a little over a decade and I want good sales for it
it was sold out at all walmarts in my city with overstock SMG2 at some stores
Someone needs to ask Nintendo if Sonic games are as typically “evergreen” as Mario games are.
VGChartz isn’t the most reliable source…