| mrstickball said: I'd say a game with a lot of legs is an unbundled game that manages to see LTD sales in excess of 10 times it's opening. Wii Play, Fit, Carnival games, and Game Party would all be great examples of it on the Wii. The X360 has had a few like that recently - especially their Singstar (a very leggy game) ripoff 'Lips'. |
That is how I always look at it. If a game sells about 4x it 1st 2 weeks the rest of its life it has good legs... 8x it has great legs, and 12x it has amazing legs.
You see, a game like Halo kinda hurts the way I do it though (or smash) halo sold like 5 or 6 mil first week, but still did 100k this week in its second cmas.... Same with Brawl, did 250k this week, but it is still front heavy.
So that is where the top 100 or 50 thing comes in....
I saw we use what I said (4x, 8x etc) or what the op says top 50 for 3 or 6 months.
that way games like GTA, Brawl, Halo, Gears, and others work in the formulas
btw- the thing in My mind that has made MKWii's sales so epic is it had a large opening, and still had casual legs (just in another league)
I think Mario and Sonic is a classic example of great legs, moderate opening, but have stuck around forever.
End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)
Wii- 72 million 3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases
360- 37 million Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak
PS3- 29 million Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut
