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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Knack outsold Super Mario 3D World ... right ?

JerCotter7 on 30 December 2013
Mr Puggsly said:
Knack is doing is doing pretty bad given there are few options on the PS4 and that game was hyped.

I found it funny people were boasting about Knack in the UK. It accounted for a small number of sales and we all knew Mario was going to outperform it down the road.


When was knack hyped? Most people thought it looked boring from the start. Even Cerny just used it to show how easy the PS4 was to develop for. He called it a second purchase. Don't make things up.



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JWeinCom on 30 December 2013
chris_wing said:
JWeinCom said:
Slade6alpha said:
LOL why are people only bringing up the UK? One region, seriously? Mario will, for a fact, outsell Knack lifetime. Why is this being questioned?


Because certain people just tend to focus on whatever region their preferred console is doing well in.  Knack has sold 1/3 of what Super Mario 3D World has with an extra week (albeit without Japanese sales, but I dounbt that will make too much of a difference).  Knack is selling slightly above Pikmin 3.  Like 70k more than Lego City.  About 60% of what Kid Icarus Uprising sold.  60K less than Wind Waker (not counting bundles/digital).  If we want to compare launch titles to be fair, then it's about 1/3 of what NSMBU did.  

Super Mario 3D World is selling 3x faster than Knack, is dropping slower, and is on its way to be a multimillion seller.  Knack is selling on par with third tier Nintendo franchises and might hit 1.5 million with some luck.  No need for discussion comparing the two.  

Well, since it was only ever outselling SM3DW in the UK, it's worth noting that week ending Dec 28th Knack is once again outselling SM3DW in the UK.

I don't think it's particularly worth noting that Knack is, at most, 2-3k ahead of SUper Mario 3D World in the UK.  First of all, the margin of error on the VGChartz estimate makes it hard to take a 3,000 gap either way pretty insignificant (I'm pretty sure UK official figures only give place values, not numbers).  Meanwhile, 3D World is doubling it (30K gap) in France, doubling it in Germany (37K) more than trippling it in the US (over 300K gap not counting this week which is likely another 70-100K).  So... I really don't see why it's really worth noting a small, or nonexistent, gap in one region is really worth noting.



think-man on 30 December 2013

I think I saw one person say that.



 

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toot1231 on 30 December 2013

Mario has legs.
Knack does not when more FPS's come available Knack will be shadowed,and never to be heard from again.



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Dv8thwonder on 30 December 2013
pezus said:
Dv8thwonder said:
If Knack was more popular than Super Mario 3D World, you would think people would bring it up in GOTY discussions or daily videogame talk but no it is only dragged miserably into the light only when sales discussions are brought up. A mediocre pack in game is mediocre regardless of Sony's sad attempts to force it on the public out of sheer desperation for their overhyped shiny new toy. /rant

Do you see CoD mentioned often in GOTY discussions?

No but this is not about Call of Duty. It's about this thread championing a mediocre tech demo that is a pack-in title. I'm sure no one is rushing out of the door to try Knack of all things. 



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Nintentacle on 30 December 2013

What are you talking about? 340k is obviously more than 1 million. 

Edit: BTW, go on the UK section. 3D World's even ahead there.



Areal-Llort on 30 December 2013

Omg, who the hell cares about Knack. It's a launch title that's gonna be long forgotten.. like Kameo on the 360, if anyone even remembers that game.



thismeintiel on 30 December 2013
EricFabian said:
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/71544/knack/UK/

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/73166/super-mario-3d-world/UK/


Not anymore

You realize those numbers are very wrong, don't you?  Knack debuted one spot in front SM3DW, and the gap has only gotten larger in the following weeks.  Sure, it may only be the difference of ~2K a week, but that adds up in the long run.



 

EricFabian on 30 December 2013
thismeintiel said:
EricFabian said:
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/71544/knack/UK/

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/73166/super-mario-3d-world/UK/


Not anymore

You realize those numbers are very wrong, don't you?  Knack debuted one spot in front SM3DW, and the gap has only gotten larger in the following weeks.  Sure, it may only be the difference of ~2K a week, but that adds up in the long run.

Indeed. But we all know in the end SM3DW >>>> Knack. Is only a matter of time



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LNC_GoldenAxe on 30 December 2013

Yea, Super Mario 3D World will be talked about forever and will still be played on Twitch 15yrs from today.