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Forums - Sales Discussion - UK software sales (Week ending 7/22/2017)

Crash had been above Splatoon on the ranking on Amazon UK and a few smaller sites most of the week so it's not all that surprising to me to see it taking the #1 spot, One thing I find curious is why Amazon would cut the price from £31.99 > £27.99  with how well it has been selling after it ran out of stock for a few days and as the restock happened they lowered it.

I'm glad that a bunch more people grabbed DOOM after the DLC went free and it's low price of £9 makes it a great purchase or actually it was quite heavily bundled by GAME with PS4 consoles along with Fallout 4 and Dishonoured 2 so that might be the bigger cause of the jump for each of these games.



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Nymeria said:
I want to see the Queen of England do the Crash dance to celebrate the Bandicoot's achievement.

https://youtu.be/VCbTwo6aklA?t=41s

Is this good enough? (Skip to 41 seconds in)



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Green098 said:
Mnementh said:

Well, obviously with more than 4.5 million worldwide Splatoon isn't a flop. But UK? Well 177K. Tom Clancy topped it in a few weeks. GTAV outsold it more than 15 times. So yes, Splatoon is a flop in the UK and probably Splatoon 2 will be too. Still, UK seems to be of little indication towards worldwide success.

EDIT: A look further - Splatoon did double as much in other european countries: 316K in germany, > 400K in France. Both are much smaller markets for most games than the UK, including GTAV, Tom Clancy, Horizon etc. UK is special.

Splatoon 2 did sell 59% higher than the original in the UK which is certainly a good sign of the franchise being bigger this time around in the UK at least. The good legs and prehaps bundles, taking just the much higher first week sales into account as well as it's much smaller install base than even the Wii U at the time of release, I think it could outsell the original in the UK in almost it's first year.

So while I think it will still do much better in other European countries, I still think Splatoon has a fighting chance of at least doubling it's original UK sales, not all hope is lost just yet.

Yes, Splatton 2 does better in the UK (and the rest of the world) than the first entry. That doesn't change the fact, that UK is generally a bad market for Nintendo-games and looking at the sales of Splatoon (or other Nintendo-titles) you could conclude it flops, even if it sells strong outside the UK.



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Pyro as Bill said:
Will the Nintendo performs badly in UK myth ever die?

Wii
UK-8.6m
Ger-5.1m
Fra-6.2m

DS
UK-13.0m
Ger-8.5m
Fra-10.5m

The WiiU/3DS was more popular in the rest of Europe than the UK because of differences in taste. Wii/DS is like fish 'n chips, 3DS/WiiU is more frogs 'n snails.

Well to be fair that argument is usually made by Nin fans more than anyone else. Not a shot at themor anything but they are usually the ones that say it.....

OT: Nice for Crash! Splatoon is so so nto bad but not good so just ok imo. The real deals here are the jumps for MK8 and Zelda!



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Kyuu said:
Splatoon 2's opening couldn't beat a remaster's third week. Hardly impressive.

1 day sales for Splatoon 2, Pretty impressive .



Pyro as Bill said:
Splatoon is #1 on the revenue chart.
https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fsoftware%2Fuk%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=110033&arch=t&lyr=2017&year=2017&week=29

Zelda and Mario Kart keep jumping back into the top 10 whenever Switch gets stock. They'll drop again next week and keep dropping until new stock arrives.

Ouch !

But I don't understand it  well.



Dr.Vita said:
Miyamotoo said:

Crash Bandicoot sold in 3. week better than Splatoon 2 in its 1st, but that doesn't mean that Splatoon 2 bombed.

Crash is selling great in any case, but of course that Splatoon 2 would sell much better than it is if install base is bigger, and Switch instal base in UK is currently just around 200k.

Also few points, Crash is $40 game while Splatoon 2 is $60, and we have infos that last week Crash had stock issues and that this week shipments for game are bigger.

 

 

You cant spin this, you first said "that Splatoon 2 crashed", and then you said that you didn't said "anything negative about Splatoon 2 sales". You really don't know what are you saying.


New shipments or not, it doesn't change the fact that Crash Bandicoot sold in it's 3rd week better than Splatoon 2 in it's launch week and that is very impressive. I could also say that a lot people had to buy the game digital because there were no shipments available last week, this must have damaged the retail sales for Crash Bandicoot too. There is just no way to deny the great performance of Crash Bandicoot. You say that if the install base of the Switch was bigger, Splatoon 2 would sell more than Crash Bandicoot? I am pretty sure that in a few years (where the install base of the Switch will be bigger) Crash Bandicoot will still have sold more than Splatoon 2. I think Crash Bandicoot lifetime numbers will be higher than Splatoon 2 lifetime numbers in the UK.

The only thing I said was "Splatoon 2 has been crashed" which means that Crash Bandicoot > Splatoon 2. And this is the truth if you take a look at the chart. Stating a fact is not talking negative about Splatoon 2 sales, I never mentioned anything about Splatoon 2 sales if you read my first post closely. The only thing I said is that it is really impressive to see Crash Bandicoot > Splatoon 2 which is a positive thing about Crash Bandicoot sales. 

Is it not just 1 day of sales for Splatoon 2.



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