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Forums - Sales Discussion - Madworld Vs. No More Heroes sales thread

stof on 17 March 2009

Madworld is coming. It's violent, it's awesome, and it's getting a lot of comparisons to No More Heroes. And while the two game s clearly share some style and gameplay aspects, I think the game is in another league all together when it comes to sales. But I still think it might be interesting to compare the sales of the two games to see which comes out on top. Currently, No More Heroes sales are sitting at .39 million. Madworld is definitely going to beat one million in sales, but that will come later.

 

In the mean time, since it isn't out yet, lets look at NMH's original sales. The game had a scattered release date.

 01/22/08
Ubisoft 
 12/06/07
Marvelous Interactive 
 03/14/08
Rising Star 

 

Region  Japan  America  Others Total
Total Sales 0.04m 0.24m 0.11m 0.39m
Week 1 11,703 35,375 25,653 72,731
Week 2 5,816 26,107 11,956 43,879
Week 3 4,992 29,245 6,306 40,543
Week 4 3,588 12,967 4,432 20,987
Week 5 4,556 8,635 3,983 17,174
Week 6 1,658 8,808 3,695 14,161
Week 7 1,151 6,003 3,417 10,571
Week 8 862 7,034 3,189 11,085
Week 9 672 7,233 2,798 10,703
Week 10 534 5,184

 

So there's a 72 thousand opening weekend. Madworld most likely won't muster any Japanese sales, so will it have a shot at NMH's opening? We'll see soon enough. I'll update this thread as it goes. 



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woopah on 17 March 2009

when was it released? cos if NMH hit 35k first week in america madworld could hit 50k



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Roflinator on 17 March 2009

It was released on Wednesday IIRC (Madworld)



griffinA on 17 March 2009

Interesting. Well Madworld isn't releasing in Japan so your can scratch that off the list. It's also not releasing in Germany.

But despite this I still think Madworld will beat No More Heroes. It's gotten better scores, more press and the wii's install base is bigger. It might not get 1 million though.



"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."

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koopatrooper on 17 March 2009

i guess it wont sell more than 50 k first week



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supermario128 on 17 March 2009

I still need to get No More Heroes.




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frybread on 17 March 2009

I've watched Madworld very closely on Amazon (which I've found to be more reliable than people here believe) and saw it go from the top 10 briefly, then hang around in the 20's for a couple days, and now it's dropped off to the 70's.

Other games that follow a similar pattern usually open with ~20k or so NA sales. My prediction for madworld is 24k NA.

Games that crack 1m will typically stay in Amazon's top 20 for 4-5 months straight. Madworld has no chance of this. If it breaks 400k I'll be surprised.

I found NMH to be a more creative game, and I can't wait for the sequel.



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griffinA on 17 March 2009
frybread said:

I've watched Madworld very closely on Amazon (which I've found to be more reliable than people here believe) and saw it go from the top 10 briefly, then hang around in the 20's for a couple days, and now it's dropped off to the 70's.

Other games that follow a similar pattern usually open with ~20k or so NA sales. My prediction for madworld is 24k NA.

Games that crack 1m will typically stay in Amazon's top 20 for 4-5 months straight. Madworld has no chance of this. If it breaks 400k I'll be surprised.

I found NMH to be a more creative game, and I can't wait for the sequel.

 

 A lot of people said that about Cod: WaW. Now look where that is.



"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."

"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."

CONMAN15 on 17 March 2009

I think that most of the people that bought NMH are people that follow games on the net, and read reviews. I think the same audience will buy madworld, but a much larger chunk of it will because the reviews are much stronger. I say madworld could beat it first week with sales of 75-80k WW. Then I think it will drop to about 30k a week, and stay consistent for a long while. I think it should total out around double what no more heroes did. The word of mouth should keep it kicking for a while. 1 million would be nice but I'm not sure if I would predict it passing that mark.



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Nick Laurence on 17 March 2009

To be honest, if the game can do 300k in just America, I'll be glad.