Famitsu Sales 3/29 ~ 4/4

[saicho]

postofficebuddy said:

saicho said:

postofficebuddy said:

jarrod said:

saicho said:

postofficebuddy said:
Impressive HW numbers for everything but 360. So since I doubt Pro Yakyuu gave any bump it looks like PS3 baseline sales are in the high 30ks because of Torne. An even bigger bump than I anticipated.

I beg to differ. It will drop again next week and the week after to another baseline.

Yeah, this week was actually a 25% drop, we're not at the new baseline at all yet.  I do think Torne's helped, but you also can't discount the back-to-back 500k+ sellers the previous two weeks... and looking at PS3's future lineup, that's something that won't be happening again for the foreseeable future.  In fact, it doesn't have even one game for the rest of Q2 that's close to as big as Yakuza 4 or Hokuto Musou.

Well we'll see next week, especially since there is absolutely nothing coming out this week. And isn't it a bit early to be judging how Nier will perform? It's a new IP after all. And you forgot Mod Nation Racers. That could probably sell 200k+.

The baseline dropped 25% to 28K this week.

Across the board. I'm pretty sure this is just post-spring break fallout, combined with the aforementioned factor. When was the last time we had a completely barren release week? Not even a low-tiered release for any platform. Just look at Wii sales they dropped to sub-30k even with NSMB being close to 40k. :edit: I just realized how ironic that is.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?post=3249457&page=2&postnum=17

which means Torne has no effect since the baseline is dropped to where it was prior to Torne release.