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Forums - Sales Discussion - WW Up! - 18th June 2011

Buzzi on 25 June 2011
Xen said:

That's all OoT 3DS sold?
  Was there even another reason to buy a 3DS aside from that game? Because I don't see it, no offence.


It sold to 1/7 of the userbase in a few days, I wouldn't call that a poor performance. First million seller for sure at this point.



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Xen on 25 June 2011
Buzzi said:
Xen said:

That's all OoT 3DS sold?
  Was there even another reason to buy a 3DS aside from that game? Because I don't see it, no offence.


It sold to 1/7 of the userbase in a few days, I wouldn't call that a poor performance. First million seller for sure at this point.

Should've done more, really.

It being a million seller is not something that I doubt though.



Thechalkblock on 25 June 2011

I must say I'm surprised the PS3 has been able to remain on top of the 360 after PSN being down for weeks



Nintendogamer on 25 June 2011
GianCarmen said:
Lets get this right. The numbers for Zelda for the Americas are not in these charts. It will be in the next weeks charts. Zelda came out June 19th. Charts are from June 11th till June 18th. Maybe some of you should check the dates before responded and saying that it bombed in the Americas.


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TeddostheFireKing on 25 June 2011

I'm still disappointed in 3DS sales numbers in EMEAA and Japan at this point, I would of thought with the greatest game ever (well, according to Metacritic), releasing on the device, it would of put its sales up a bit more than it has, and the OoT numbers themselves are disappointing too, but that'll probably have legs

I'm curious as to what the American 3DS numbers will be for next week though, should see a big boost

Infamous 2 is doing ok, but I thought it might of sold better second week, but I can't believe DN:F is doing so well, its terrible ¬.¬



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Galaki on 25 June 2011

Too many baits and baited.



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Shorty11857 on 25 June 2011

Pretty good first week for OOT.

Duke Nukem is bombing a bit in Europe wonder if it will repeat that pattern in the US?

Infamous 2 had a decent second week not amazing but not bad, held on decently in Europe

LA Noire seems to be levelling out, at least on PS3 really hope the game continues to sell, it was nice to play something different for once

Child of Eden and Alice did okay, expected more for Child of Eden though it had a fair amount of hype

Agarest War opened pretty decently too, 50k overall for a really niche low quality RPG not bad



homer on 25 June 2011
TheSource said:

The thing about Microsoft's statement is its probably for their fiscal year, and not the calendar year. I'm not sure X360 will be ahead of Wii or PS3 this (Jan-Dec) year. X360 is behind PS3 quite a bit by sales / shipments and we've heard murmurs of a Sony price cut in August, nothing really about a X360 price cut yet. Wii is a little ahead of X360 year to date, and that lead should grow further over the next few months since Nintendo cut price. Then, later in the year, Wii will probably perform similarly in the West to X360 over Christmas and better in Japan.

X360 is already ahead of Wii (and PS3) in the USA over the past year, and by extension North America, but its hard to imagine that expanding globally. Here in the USA part of the reason I wanted price cuts for X360 / PS3 at E3 was because with the NFL strike some of the Madden / NCAA momnetum that keeps sales decent in July-August will probably be gone this year, which means the baseline ahead of the price cuts will be lower. August is kind of a wasteland from the release dates that have been announced so far, so the rebound on price cuts will be from a pretty low point.


Woah!!!! The NFL is on strike? WTH do they want? This affects Madden's release? No Madden this year? How the heck am I supposed to get my real football fix? Everyone forget the sad sales of the 3ds, this problem is far more dire!!!



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yo_john117 on 25 June 2011

Nice little bump for Halo Reach



postofficebuddy on 25 June 2011
Seece said:


I also think it's fairly obvious a price cut on Kinect and a big advertising boost will push Kinect higher than it did last year, why are people so against the idea Kinect can sell akin to a console? People see its sales today and think, it's fading fast, it's history. Have they learnt NOTHING from being on this site???

It might not be obvious to you but then you don't have all the facts and you're not in the know, MS rarely come out with comments like this and I don't think they would stand on that stage and repeat it to journalists unless they were very confident.

Like i said, Kinect bundle at $199 + advertisments, sales in the U.S will explode, that'll be enough for WW.


I've brought this out several times in the past but it always seems to be ignored. You think saturation will have no effect on a potential impact a price cut might have? Why do think DS's price cut last year fell almost totally flat? And now even Wii's price cut only seems to be giving a modest short term boost. Saturation is a very real issue that 360 is facing in America. It's not really an issue in Europe outside of the UK due to the higher population and 360's lower install base but continental Europe has never been very pro-360 to begin with. Not to mention the fact that $200 is pretty much determined to be the mass market price point. Any price cuts after that aren't going to be as meaningful.



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