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Forums - Sales Discussion - UK Charts Week Ending 14 February 2015

GO ZELDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And go Far Cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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Happy to see Zelda, Evolve and Monster Hunter take the top spots. New games and refreshing deviation from COD/FIFA/AC/Farcry.

Lets see if Evolve will have legs or not.



true_fan said:
Wow look at Forza Horizon 2 still holding strong since being released in late September. Is this game being bundled in the UK, or are these stand along sales?


I don't think it's bundled not that I know of FH2 jump one spot even with all those new games coming out which is really impressive, Halo the Master Chief collection should get an mention for this as well it only drop one spot.



Proud to be a Californian.

Ka-pi96 said:
Too bad Majora's Mask couldn't take 1st

Oh come on, It is first in individual chartz, and it is UK...



benji232 said:
nanzano said:

3DS HW only 57% more than the previews week with new 3DS?  In other word if it was 5k before it is around 7.5k this week which means less than any holiday week? Looks like bad advertising in UK tbh

You're reading it wrong. It gave a 57% boost to the total HW sold in the UK for that week. N3ds didn't just sell 5k lol. It probably sold around 20-30k.

Thanks Benji232!I was going to find out the truth about that because it was seeming farfetched and  so irrational to be true!And you proved me right!



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The second monster hunting title in the chart this week is the aptly named ‘Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate’, which makes its mark at No4. The title’s week 1 sales are an impressive 95% up on predecessor ‘Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate’ as the series starts to gain real traction in the West!

This(especially the last line) is for some people who are complaining about the really high monster hunter 4 numbers in the USA's pre-orders chart here and basing it to previous monster hunter titles performance in the west...Like massive leaps in popularity aren't feasible...



tak13 said:
benji232 said:
nanzano said:

3DS HW only 57% more than the previews week with new 3DS?  In other word if it was 5k before it is around 7.5k this week which means less than any holiday week? Looks like bad advertising in UK tbh

You're reading it wrong. It gave a 57% boost to the total HW sold in the UK for that week. N3ds didn't just sell 5k lol. It probably sold around 20-30k.

Thanks Benji232!I was going to find out the truth about that because it was seeming farfetched and  so irrational to be true!And you proved me right!

No problem Tak :).



Predictions for LT console sales:

PS4: 120M

XB1: 70M

WiiU: 14M

3DS: 60M

Vita: 13M

Another good week. Well done nintendo on the Boost. Delighted to see Evolve bomb hard. As someone said it's a dud and i also hope it has terrible legs.

Sony have battlefield and batman advertising coming. Looks like they picked the right games again.



Seece said:
kivi95 said:
Seece said:

Don't understand why you would want a game to bomb so much?

The $120 DLCs day one?

Oh right, what exactly is the DLC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsgoD74vLIo

Watch this if you want to know why alot of people are hating on this game, with its bull shit DLC, if you can stand jimquisition that is. 



tbone51 said:
binary solo said:
So VGC has MH3 at 6,362 in the UK on opening week. So that puts MH4 at a little over 12K if VGC is approximately right. How is that impressive really?

1% Evolve PS4bonePC < 400. Evolve total sales is <40K. Also not all that great. Titanfall on Xb one alone launched in the UK to 129K on a miniscule install base by comparison. PC = <1200 of the total sales so PS4bone Evolve <38.8K Xb one sales <19.6K PS4 sales <19.2K. Hyrule Warriors started with 15K, Bayo2 started with 12K.

<40K > Majora's mask <12K.

Dunno about anyone else, but none of those debuts are impressive.


MH4U > 16,733 (Gta5)

Besides that is pretty good for MH.

As for Zelda, it should be well over 20k. A remake of the less popular Main Zelda's.  Not Amazing, but good debut's.

Not saying you're wrong, but where is the calc for GTAV being 16,733? If we look at the GTA drops from the lst VGC numbers that brings us to ~17,100. But I'm inclined to go for the direct reference to MH3 on 3DS as GFK has given us the exact % increase in relation to that title so we don't need any indirect reference to GTAV. If you believe MH4 >16,733 that means MH3 got >8,500 fw in the UK. That is a reasonably credible figure because it's still on the low side. 95% up on MH3 is good for sure. But I think GFK is overstating things a bit by saying that's real traction. It remains to be seen whether it will leg it out to also double LTD sales, or if as is the case with a lot of sequels there is somewhat more front loading of sales. 

LoZ could be over 30K, we don't know. All we know is probably more than 15K and definitely <40K.

"Good for a Zelda / MH game on 3DS in the UK." Is both good and bad. Because in general good for 3DS in the UK isn't actually good across platform.

I gotta say 57% boost for N3DS also isn't setting the world on fire either, given 3DS's fairly low base (if VGC hardware is roughly correct). If the reception to N3DS is this muted around the world then we can expect a flat year at best for 3DS, which should mean a new handheld in 2016. If Nintendo is looking at a unified platform for home console and handheld it probably means both launching in the same year, which is looking more and more like 2016.



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