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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently held a state of the union with Japanese newspaper Nikkei (http://www.nikkei.com/news/latest/article/g=96958A9C93819696E2E4E29C978DE2E4E3E0E0E2E3E38698 E2E2E2E2) (via Andriasang (http://andriasang.com/comz7n/3ds_sales/)) for the company's performance in its home country. Mario Kart 7, which launched on December 1, has done quite well. In its first week on retail shelves, the game sold a whopping 420,000 copies, almost double the first-week performance sales of Mario Kart DS back in 2005. And, according to Iwata, the game did even better abroad, though we kinda already knew that (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/28/wii-zelda-and-super-mario-3d-land-set-records-on-black-friday/).
Despite suffering through a lackluster launch, Nintendo's latest handheld is set to reach the three million sold mark two weeks faster than the original DS did, Iwata said. Thanks, price cut (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/28/3ds-price-drops-to-170-on-august-12/)! He expects the 3DS to hit four million before its one year anniversary on February 26.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Mario Kart 7 sells 420K its first week in Japan, Iwata says game did even better internationally (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/06/mario-kart-7-sells-420k-its-first-week-in-japan-iwata-says-game/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently held a state of the union with Japanese newspaper Nikkei (http://www.nikkei.com/news/latest/article/g=96958A9C93819696E2E4E29C978DE2E4E3E0E0E2E3E38698 E2E2E2E2) (via Andriasang (http://andriasang.com/comz7n/3ds_sales/)) for the company's performance in its home country. Mario Kart 7, which launched on December 1, has done quite well. In its first week on retail shelves, the game sold a whopping 420,000 copies, almost double the first-week performance sales of Mario Kart DS back in 2005. And, according to Iwata, the game did even better abroad, though we kinda already knew that (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/28/wii-zelda-and-super-mario-3d-land-set-records-on-black-friday/).
Despite suffering through a lackluster launch, Nintendo's latest handheld is set to reach the three million sold mark two weeks faster than the original DS did, Iwata said. Thanks, price cut (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/28/3ds-price-drops-to-170-on-august-12/)! He expects the 3DS to hit four million before its one year anniversary on February 26.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Mario Kart 7 sells 420K its first week in Japan, Iwata says game did even better internationally (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/06/mario-kart-7-sells-420k-its-first-week-in-japan-iwata-says-game/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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