Update:

First Day figures are in for Wii Sports Resort in Japan from Famitsu. The title has sold through 41% of its shipment, for sales of 155,000 units on day one of availability. That compares to 130,000 for Super Mario Galaxy on Day one, 176,000 for Wii Play & Wii Sports (1) during the Wii launch week, and 260,000 for Wii Fit week one (two days). Wii Music did 50,000 units day one.

Wii Sports Resort should top 300,000 units week one at a bare minimum given that the game has a few more days to sell before the week ends.

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Original Piece/Prognostication:

Final preorder data for Wii Sports Resort has just arrived. The data suggests that the game has at least 125,000 preorders in Japan. Famitsu magazine analysts expected the game to have a week one shipment of 500,000 and lifetime sales of 3.5 million. Among Vgchartz expectations, Brett expects about 300,000 week one, while I have a more modest 250,000. We'll see soon enough, but it should at least be bigger than Wii Music.

For reference, all of Nintendo's Wii-line games have had strong openings in Japan. Wii Sports opened to sales of 181,000 units and will eventually reach a total more than 20x that opening in Japan. Wii Play debuted to sales of 178,000 and has sold over 15x that amount to date in Japan. Wii Fit opened to sales of 252,000 units and has reached roughly 14x that opening in Japan to date. Wii Music, the red-headed step child of this series, opened to sales of 107,000 last fall and has nearly quadrupled its total since then.

Japanese blogger Sinobi should have the day one data (June 25) for Wii Sports Resort this Friday.

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