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Locknuts on 08 June 2014
DerNebel said:
The Wii U and/or X1 outselling the PS4 should create some chaos, if it happens.

Would be hilarious. Good for competition too!



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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 08 June 2014
spemanig said:
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
spemanig said:
Unless some other title can boost a consoles sales WW by more than 440% in the span of one week, I think it'll stay the biggest sales news of the year.

The problem with percentages is that they aren't representative of actual increase.


They are when it means that a console goes from 31k to 187k in two days.





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NYCrysis on 08 June 2014

mk8 has outsold watchdogs and infamous 2nd son on amazon's 2014 best sellers list.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2014/videogames/ref=zg_bs_tab_t_bsar



Zadainie on 08 June 2014

MK8 is a well established IP that always does well. Watch Dogs is more impressive.A new IP selling almost 2 million on PS4 is insane.



JazzB1987 on 08 June 2014
Soundwave said:

 

Is somebody talking? I thought I heard something. 

What is this? 2 PS2's duct taped together? xD



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oniyide on 08 June 2014

an established IP versue a brand new one and it still end up selling less than it? and that was JUST the PS4 version? yeah ok i guess. MK8 did more for WI U than WD did for PS4 but thats the rub right there. PS4 was doing good anyway. Wii U not so much.



Hedra42 on 09 June 2014
oniyide said:
an established IP versue a brand new one and it still end up selling less than it? and that was JUST the PS4 version? yeah ok i guess. MK8 did more for WI U than WD did for PS4 but thats the rub right there. PS4 was doing good anyway. Wii U not so much.

Remember the number of days they were for sale were not equal. WD figures represented 5 days whereas MK8 represented up to 3 days due to staggered launches. We will have a better idea in a few weeks time.



mii-gamer on 09 June 2014

Easily watch_dog, but that's not take away the success of Mario Kart 8, it went beyond most of our expectations, so it did really well, regardless whether it doesn't help the Wii U in the long run



oniyide on 09 June 2014
Hedra42 said:
oniyide said:
an established IP versue a brand new one and it still end up selling less than it? and that was JUST the PS4 version? yeah ok i guess. MK8 did more for WI U than WD did for PS4 but thats the rub right there. PS4 was doing good anyway. Wii U not so much.

Remember the number of days they were for sale were not equal. WD figures represented 5 days whereas MK8 represented up to 3 days due to staggered launches. We will have a better idea in a few weeks time.


is two days difference really that huge? no not really, especially since MK is such a large franchise anyway



Hedra42 on 09 June 2014
oniyide said:
Hedra42 said:
oniyide said:
an established IP versue a brand new one and it still end up selling less than it? and that was JUST the PS4 version? yeah ok i guess. MK8 did more for WI U than WD did for PS4 but thats the rub right there. PS4 was doing good anyway. Wii U not so much.

Remember the number of days they were for sale were not equal. WD figures represented 5 days whereas MK8 represented up to 3 days due to staggered launches. We will have a better idea in a few weeks time.


is two days difference really that huge? no not really, especially since MK is such a large franchise anyway

It's huge when it represents 40% of WD sales window.

Give it a month at least so that the difference in dates becomes negligable, and until January 2015 to get a truer picture.

My own personal opinion at this moment in time is that they appear to have done equally impressively, but for different reasons.