Star Fox Zero Sells an Estimated 268K First Week at Retail

VGChartz' William D'Angelo writes: "The 3D scrolling shooter game - Star Fox Zero - sold 267,695 units first week worldwide on the Wii U, according to our estimates, which can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending April 23rd.

Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in the US with 157,609 units sold (59%), compared to 47,743 units sold in Europe (18%) and 25,058 units sold in Japan (9%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 8,938 units in the UK, 12,385 units in Germany, and 11,603 units in France."

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Not the best sales, but considering how many people just can't handle anything that isn't a plain pad, it's not really surprising.
The gaming community hates anything that strays from tradition, after all.

[deafdani]

Holy crap, man, that's simply not true. Just look at Splatoon, that right there contradicts what you said.

Nintendo went overboard with Star Fox Zero's controls, and a lot of people didn't like that. I feel it would've done much better if its control scheme was closer to Splatoon: keep the gyro aiming, ditch the two screen focus.

On the other hand, maybe people in general aren't that interested in the Star Fox IP. Personally, I liked Star Fox Zero a lot, but I can see why the controls are so divisive.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Credit where it's due; ditching the twin screen focus and keeping it more like Splatoon might have made it less divisive, though my comment about the "gaming community" was much more-so referring to people outside of the Wii U's fanbase.
But then you'd have people complaining that it's yet another Nintendo game where Nintendo didn't even use the game pad much, which would continue that false rhetoric from haters claiming that "the pad was so bad that not even Nintendo wanted to make heavy use of it".

Nintendo was in a lose-lose situation on this one.
And for what it's worth, after having learned the controls, I've come to appreciate what they bring to the fray.
I'm getting consistent silvers and a smattering of golds in every mission, and that's because the new aiming controls allow me to hit targets I'd otherwise have to adjust my flight path just to hit, and being able to keep my enemy in sight while still flying freely using Target View really showed its value during the final boss battle; dodging that laser attack would have been impossible with a viewpoint that was always focused on the tail-end of my ship.

[iplay1up2]

I gameflyed it, and honestly I am on level 3 and keep dying. I do not like it. The first two levels were fun, but now It just has become stupid. You, Monkey, know my love for Nintendo, we have talked about X, this game I guess I am doing something wrong!?! I will not buy it, unless I learn to play this level, it can't be this hard, I think I am playing wrong.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

With all due respect towards you, my friend, I think you just might not be that good at it?
I've been playing the game thoroughly since the first of the month [and played it frequently at my step-bro's house before that], and I haven't had any issues with the controls since having learned them, which took me less than 3 minutes through a run of each training program.
There's nothing wrong with admitting that you're not that great at a game; I've been terrible at learning complicated fighters in games like Blaze Blue and Guilty Gear, but I still love and play them to death, with no shame in sucking at them.XD

[Get_A_Job_Foxtrot]

Monkey Man, always first to comment to do crowd control for Nintendo, whenever Nintendo fails.

God bless his delusional little monkey heart.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

I don't even know who you ARE, and I sincerely doubt you're anywhere near as qualified to judge Star Fox as I am, since you likely don't even own it, let alone play it well or have beaten most of the routes in the game.

I speak from a pedestal of experience on this one, not from delusions.

Sit back down and stop bothering me, kid.

[blawren4]

I just don't think starfox is as popular as people like to believe. Respectable early sales.

[fungusar]

Europe is only UK, Germany and France. i am offended

[Stealth20k]

That aint the best and it aint the worst.

[LOL_WUT]

Not surprised the initial gameplay footage really put a lot of people off. Also, the gimmicky control mechanics in the game didn't help much either. ;)