alfredofroylan said:
Interesting. When it's supposed to rise again? |
Good question, unfortunately I only have full year weekly data from 2008, but this week is the lowest of any week in my records going back to mid-2007. The lowest in 2008 was 910k, and in my partial records for 2007 was 890k. 2006 is missing weeks 17 - 20 though. Last year had the release of GTAIV in week 18, so it's really not a good comparison to this year.
This week could just be an anomaly and sales might bounce back next week. With this week's low number 2009 is now marginally behind 2008's record year; 22.52m units Vs 22.76m units.
If we look at quarterly sales, then Q2 is generally the lowest quarter of the year, far below Q1, with sales then recovering a bit for Q3 before exploding in Q4.
Quarterly UK software unit sales (m) Q1 1998 - Q1 2007
Weekly UK software unit and total market value sales:
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| Week 01 | 2,197,930 | 3,498,103 | £47.7m | £69.7m | ||
| Week 02 | 1,339,443 | 1,547,306 | £29.7m | £34.8m | ||
| Week 03 | 1,228,132 | 1,247,905 | £28.4m | £29.2m | ||
| Week 04 | 1,236,526 | 1,353,433 | £29.1m | £28.9m | ||
| Week 05 | 1,204,294 | 1,257,280 | £28.2m | £27.0m | ||
| Week 06 | 1,274,538 | 989,242 | £31.2m | £24.1m | ||
| Week 07 | 1,364,838 | 1,153,741 | £32.0m | £27.5m | ||
| Week 08 | 1,270,810 | 1,281,934 | £30.0m | £30.8m | ||
| Week 09 | 1,287,229 | 1,320,525 | £31.4m | £32.4m | ||
| Week 10 | 1,147,122 | 1,223,968 | £28.4m | £29.2m | ||
| Week 11 | 1,096,340 | 1,223,328 | £26.1m | £30.9m | ||
| Week 12 | 1,627,936 | 1,064,760 | £38.8m | £25.9m | ||
| Week 13 | 1,583,801 | 1,058,242 | £37.0m | £24.6m | ||
| Week 14 | 1,192,136 | 1,328,106 | 1,116,196 | £29.0m | £31.0m | £24.8m |
| Week 15 | 1,379,307 | 1,260,415 | 1,306,014 | £30.1m | £32.9m | £31.8m |
| Week 16 | 1,175,027 | 1,109,157 | 1,118,632 | £23.4m | £28.8m | £24.8m |
| Week 17 | 1,206,048 | 758,112 | £31.5m | £15.8m | ||
| Week 18 | 2,000,000 | £65.3m | ||||
| Week 19 | 1,048,905 | £28m | ||||
| Week 20 | 910,877 | £22.5m | ||||
| Week 21 | 914,109 | 980,710 | £19.3m | £23.5m | ||
| Week 22 | 957,177 | 1,214,740 | £20.9m | £28.4m | ||
| Week 23 | 1,281,921 | 1,007,766 | £27.5m | £24.6m | ||
| Week 24 | 931,594 | 1,087,496 | £21.1m | £28m | ||
| Week 25 | 975,287 | 1,043,834 | £21.2m | £25.2m | ||
| Week 26 | 942,628 | 1,187,698 | £19.7m | £33.4m | ||
| Week 27 | 1,216,502 | 1,252,038 | £26.7m | £30.2m | ||
| Week 28 | 1,147,132 | 1,275,120 | £24.7m | £29.1m | ||
| Week 29 | 1,058,671 | 1,183,865 | £22.4m | £26m | ||
| Week 30 | 1,147,089 | 1,115,514 | £23.6m | £24.3m | ||
| Week 31 | 1,403,677 | 1,253,377 | £28.6m | £28m | ||
| Week 32 | 1,268,197 | 1,288,991 | £25.8m | £27.6m | ||
| Week 33 | 1,124,467 | 1,202,743 | £22.6m | £25.8m | ||
| Week 34 | 1,201,155 | 1,197,521 | £23.7m | £25.7m | ||
| Week 35 | 1,280,715 | 1,125,611 | £27.1m | £27.6m | ||
| Week 36 | 1,196,750 | 1,130,336 | £28.2m | £29.4m | ||
| Week 37 | 1,031,077 | 1,280,000 | £23.1m | £28.1m | ||
| Week 38 | 957,944 | 1,054,216 | £19.5m | £29.0m | ||
| Week 39 | 887,755 | 1,212,870 | £22.1m | £29.0m | ||
| Week 40 | 1,584,610 | 1,446,325 | £51.5m | £41.7m | ||
| Week 41 | 1,033,935 | 1,199,772 | £29.0m | £32.6m | ||
| Week 42 | 1,105,696 | 1,440,713 | £27.1m | £36.1m | ||
| Week 43 | 1,293,386 | 1,614,665 | £30.9m | £41.8m | ||
| Week 44 | 1,420,727 | 1,869,095 | £38.0m | £47.3m | ||
| Week 45 | 1,897,015 | 2,225,207 | £48.9m | £57.8m | ||
| Week 46 | 2,270,861 | 3,041,931 | £58.3m | £77.9m | ||
| Week 47 | 2,641,605 | 3,043,323 | £66.6m | £75.0m | ||
| Week 48 | 3,101,901 | 3,487,443 | £75.7m | £82.2m | ||
| Week 49 | 3,451,530 | 3,602,790 | £85.4m | £90.6m | ||
| Week 50 | 4,248,904 | £94.4m | ||||
| Week 51 | 4,499,377 | 5,014,647 | £108.7m | £109.2m | ||
| Week 52 | 3,957,985 | 5,415,393 | £91.9m | £112.8m |
