General Gaming Sales/Charts Discussion

[Josh64]

Wii U sales up by 25% isn't bad for now but...

 

with pretty much NO releases until Mario Kart and the PS4 and XBone getting more traction, it's probably in a worse position than last year. Maybe they should just call it quits and bury all the remaining Wii U's next to that E.T. game.

[Grazza]

Wii U sales up by 25% isn't bad for now but...

 

with pretty much NO releases until Mario Kart and the PS4 and XBone getting more traction, it's probably in a worse position than last year. Maybe they should just call it quits and bury all the remaining Wii U's next to that E.T. game.

 

It does at least prove that software can have a big effect though (as opposed to people disliking the Wii U so much they wouldn't buy it under any circumstances). Mario Kart 8 will probably give it a bigger boost, although I still think their biggest problem is price.

[liger05]

Wii U sales up by 25% isn't bad for now but...

 

with pretty much NO releases until Mario Kart and the PS4 and XBone getting more traction, it's probably in a worse position than last year. Maybe they should just call it quits and bury all the remaining Wii U's next to that E.T. game.

 

If there was a 25% increase and then there was new software coming to sustain some momentum it would look different but 25% increase and then the next game not arriving until the end of May means sales will likely slide back to where they were before DK was released.

[Josh64]

Exactly, all Iwata was banging on about last year was momentum and how they lost it and will make sure they have a steady flow of games this year to maintain momentum.. and do they? No. Like you said, if they had more games coming out, perhaps they could continue these positive sales over a long period of time but sadly it will just dip right back down.

 

And the Wii U's price has been so all over the place I'm not even sure how much it's meant to be any more. What is the official RRP?

[Grazza]

Premium is generally £220 without a game at the moment. I think it'd need to be £180-200 with Mario Kart 8 before they could properly judge its success.

[liger05]

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/xbox-...launch/0129687

 

 

Titanfall is comfortably this week’s UK No.1, and boost Xbox One hardware sales by almost 100 per cent.

 

70 per cent of all Xbox One consoles sold last week came bundled with Titanfall, Chart-Track says.

 

Titanfall is EA’s first No.1 that isn’t a FIFA game for over a year. The last non-FIFA EA game to top the charts was Crysis 3 back in the first week of March last year.

 

It means the team at Bandai Namco had to settle for No.2 with its cult RPG Dark Souls II, which saw a launch sales improvement of 20 per cent over the original.

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TW Title Format Label Publisher

- 1 TITANFALL XB ONE EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS

- 2 DARK SOULS II XB360 BANDAI NAMCO GAMES BANDAI NAMCO GAMES

- 3 DARK SOULS II PS3 BANDAI NAMCO GAMES BANDAI NAMCO GAMES

1 4 SOUTH PARK: THE STICK OF TRUTH XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT

2 5 SOUTH PARK: THE STICK OF TRUTH PS3 UBISOFT UBISOFT

4 6 PLANTS VS ZOMBIES: GARDEN WARFARE XB360 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS

8 7 MINECRAFT: XBOX 360 EDITION XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT

- 8 TITANFALL PC EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS

5 9 THE LEGO MOVIE VIDEOGAME XB360 WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE

- 10 YOSHI'S NEW ISLAND 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO

3 11 THIEF PS4 SQUARE ENIX SQUARE ENIX EUROPE

14 12 FIFA 14 PS4 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS

10 13 FIFA 14 XB ONE EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS

7 14 PLANTS VS ZOMBIES: GARDEN WARFARE XB ONE EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS

- 15 ASSASSIN'S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG PS4 UBISOFT UBISOFT

9 16 THIEF XB360 SQUARE ENIX SQUARE ENIX EUROPE

16 17 CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS XB360 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

17 18 FORZA MOTORSPORT 5 XB ONE MICROSOFT MICROSOFT

12 19 THE LEGO MOVIE VIDEOGAME PS3 WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE

6 20 THIEF XB ONE SQUARE ENIX SQUARE ENIX EUROPE

- 21 KILLZONE: SHADOW FALL PS4 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.

23 22 BATTLEFIELD 4 PS4 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS

22 23 BATTLEFIELD 4 XB ONE EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS

30 24 CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS PS4 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

13 25 FIFA 14 XB360 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS

11 26 THIEF PS3 SQUARE ENIX SQUARE ENIX EUROPE

20 27 LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES XB360 WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE

27 28 GRAND THEFT AUTO V XB360 ROCKSTAR TAKE 2

- 29 THE LAST OF US PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.

24 30 CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS XB ONE ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

32 31 ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES XB360 SEGA SEGA

38 32 POKEMON Y 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO

35 33 DEAD RISING 3 XB ONE MICROSOFT MICROSOFT

- 34 THE LEGO MOVIE VIDEOGAME PS4 WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE

40 35 POKEMON X 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO

18 36 GRAN TURISMO 6 PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.

36 37 FOOTBALL MANAGER 2014 PC SEGA SEGA

21 38 ASSASSIN'S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT

37 39 DONKEY KONG COUNTRY: TROPICAL FREEZE WII U NINTENDO NINTENDO

33 40 GRAND THEFT AUTO V PS3 ROCKSTAR TAKE 2

 

Titanfall should sell bucketloads on the 360 when its released.

Edited March 17, 2014 by liger05

[Hero-of-Time]

Well deserved top spot for Titanfall. It will be interesting to see if Infamous can knock it off the top spot next week.

[Sheikah]

Did Titanfall beat Dark Souls II's PS3 plus 360 combined sales? Impressive.

[liger05]

Did Titanfall beat Dark Souls II's PS3 plus 360 combined sales? Impressive.

 

Dark Souls 2 was only 20% up on DS1. I think thats disappointing.

[Dcubed]

96% increase WoW doesn't seem all that much when you consider that its release was also coupled with the console pricedrop (which also came with Titanfall bundled in as well)...

 

That comment made a couple of days ago about there being "hundreds of thousands of players" playing the game ever since its US release also seems to indicate that it's between 200k-350k worldwide currently (any higher and they would've been shouting over the rooftops about selling "almost half a million since launch")

 

I wonder if that's good enough considering how much MS have riding off of this game...

Edited March 17, 2014 by Dcubed

[Serebii]

Didn't Wind Waker HD increase Wii U sales by 685%? A percentage is rubbish without the initial figures...

[Hero-of-Time]

Didn't Wind Waker HD increase Wii U sales by 685%? A percentage is rubbish without the initial figures...

 

This.

 

It really annoys me when they do this.

[Serebii]

This.

 

It really annoys me when they do this.

Considering the PS4 has apparently been outselling the Xbox One here 3:1 on a near weekly basis, it puts things into perspective even further.

[Sheikah]

Dark Souls 2 was only 20% up on DS1. I think thats disappointing.

 

Is it? 20% up on a 'more of the same' kind of game on dying formats seems pretty good to me. They've already had Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 to find additional fans. Once you reach your audience limit you can't go much higher!

 

Plus some people are also pussies and will never try this game.

[Dcubed]

Is it? 20% up on a 'more of the same' kind of game on dying formats seems pretty good to me. They've already had Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 to find additional fans. Once you reach your audience limit you can't go much higher!

 

Plus some people are also pussies and will never try this game.

 

The marketing budget was much bigger for DS2 than for the first DS game though... So I wouldn't imagine that Namco would be happy with a "mere" 20% improvement in this case...

[Daft]

This is a bit of a circle jerk. Titanfall is a new IP, limited to the lesser of two consoles (the more expensive one, too) and it doesn't include digital sales. It's done pretty well and will probably have a tail on it with the 360 release in a couple weeks and while Microsoft push it aggressively.

[Sheikah]

@Dcubed But how many more people can you attract with this sort of game and on a last gen format? It is marketed quite rightly as 'you will die lots in this hard game', so is probably seen as offputting to your casual gamer. And a lot of the core probably already bought Dark Souls 1 on account of how critically acclaimed it was. I think going up 20% is pretty good for this kind of game.

 

Anyone know any actual figures?

[Dcubed]

@Dcubed But how many more people can you attract with this sort of game and on a last gen format? It is marketed quite rightly as 'you will die lots in this hard game', so is probably seen as offputting to your casual gamer. And a lot of the core probably already bought Dark Souls 1 on account of how critically acclaimed it was. I think going up 20% is pretty good for this kind of game.

 

I think that it's impressive in of itself too, but I don't think Namco would agree, considering the hopes they pinned on this title...

 

"The good thing this time round is we're investing more in it from a marketing perspective," Kirton told OXM at a preview event in London today. "With Dark Souls and [PS3-exclusive spiritual predecessor] Demon Souls it was very focused, small-scale. We're treating this as a massive, massive triple-A title."

 

"We're going to go balls-deep and guns-blazing with it, and hope to God that it works," he continued. "We're going after people who love and adore Dark Souls, while hopefully widening the net a little. I'm not saying that every Skyrim player's going to be jumping on Dark Souls, but it would be nice if some of them did. It's a different game, sure."

 

I hope it's good enough for them, but I get the feeling that they set their expectations much higher than just a 20% increase...

[Sheikah]

To be fair, it is a huge AAA title, and would otherwise have been number 1 if not for Titanfall. It's not their fault one of the most hotly anticipated/marketed games of all times released in the same week. :p

[Rummy]

inFamous Second Son Leading Titanfall In Social Metrics

 

 

 

I'm really suprised by the number of actionables in relation to Infamous. I hope it lives up to it.

 

I don't know a lot about Titanfall, and really I don't know a lot about inFamous - I actually noticed an advert for the latter on the TV today or yesterday though - which I normally don't. This all doesn't really mean anything, but whatever they're doing they've done better to get on my radar with a TV ad like that than anyone else.

[Wii]

JAPAN: NINTENDO 3DS SELLS 34K, WII U SELLS 7K

 

This week’s Media Create sales are now in from Japan. The Nintendo 3DS is once again the best-selling hardware shifting 34K units, beating both the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita. Wii U sales remain steady with Nintendo’s latest console selling 7K. Here’s the best-selling software and hardware in Japan this week.

 

1. [PS3] Dark Souls II (From Software, 03/13/14) – 255,197 (New)
   
2. [3DS] Yokai Watch (Level-5, 07/11/13) – 37,247 (569,720)
   
3. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru and Luca’s Wonderful Mysterious Keys (Square Enix, 02/06/14) – 18,728 (737,593)
   
4. [PSV] Soul Sacrifice Delta (SCEJ, 03/06/14) – 17,357 (66,143)
   
5. [3DS] Harvest Moon: Tsunagaru Shin Tenchi (Marvelous AQL, 02/27/14) – 15,883 (176,180)
   
6. [3DS] Kaseki Horider: Mugen Gear (Nintendo, 02/27/14) – 13,362 (93,900)
   
7. [3DS] Kirby: Triple Deluxe (Nintendo, 01/09/14) – 12,225 (501,835)
   
8. [3DS] Pokemon X and Y (Pokemon, 10/12/13) – 10,106 (3,994,938)
   
9. [PS3] Yakuza: Ishin (Sega, 02/22/14) – 10,034 (222,147)
   
10. [PS3] Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two, 10/10/13) – 7,910 (736,810)
    
11. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons Z (GungHo Online Entertainment, 12/12/13) – 7,755 (1,407,075)
    
12. [PS4] Battlefield 4 (EA, 02/22/14) – 7,539 (55,286)
    
13. [PS3] Ar no Surge (Gust, 03/06/14) – 6,751 (33,7870
    
14. [360] Dark Souls II (From Software, 03/13/14) – 5,950 (New)
    
15. [PS4] Yakuza: Ishin (Sega, 02/22/14) – 5,451 (119,722)
    
16. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 (Capcom, 09/14/13) – 5,132 (3,239,571)
    
17. [Wii U] Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo, 02/13/14) – 5,117 (72,401)
    
18. [3DS] Doraemon: New Nobita’s Great Demon—Peko and the Exploration Party of Five (FuRyu, 03/06/14) – 4,813 (9,665)
    
19. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf (11/08/12) – 4,759 (3,692,937)
    
20. [PS3] Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS. Full Boost (Namco Bandai, 01/30/14) – 4,395 (338,323)
    

 

Hardware Sales (followed by last week’s sales)

 

1. PlayStation 4 – 29,677 (35,294)
   
2. PlayStation Vita – 28,270 (31,325)
   
3. 3DS LL – 23,372 (24,192)
   
4. PlayStation 3 – 14,128 (12,102)
   
5. 3DS – 10,772 (10,876)
   
6. Wii U – 7,654 (7,773)
   
7. PSP – 3,461 (3,425)
   
8. PlayStation Vita TV – 1,447 (1,962)
   
9. Xbox 360 – 278 (300)
   

 

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/03/19/japan-nintendo-3ds-sells-34k-wii-u-sells-7k/#comments

[Daft]

Well look at that, the Vita isn't totally sucking ass. That's a surprise.

[Clownferret]

i don't get these figures. PS4 is the best selling console, but only two PS4 games in the charts and both only total 13k sales compared to 30k hardware sales. That less than 1 game per console sold, what the hell are the Japanese playing? What's the average ratio of software to hardware sales?

[Serebii]

i don't get these figures. PS4 is the best selling console, but only two PS4 games in the charts and both only total 13k sales compared to 30k hardware sales. That less than 1 game per console sold, what the hell are the Japanese playing? What's the average ratio of software to hardware sales?

Technically the 3DS is. They separated 3DS & 3DS XL sales.

[liger05]

Yikes at the PS4 sales.

 

Really not sure what Nintendo are going to do with the 3DS. I think they need to release a new premium model.