EU Sales & Software UP!

[Reasonable]

SOLIDSNAKE08 said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
Alan Wake must still make its name in a genre that excluding Resident Evil and Silent Hill is quite niche, its sales aren't so bad, it could sell lifetime more than most RE and SH titles on Wii. What's bad for XB360 is that apparently AW didn't sell HW, unless the not evident truth be that it actually avoided a further drop.

still expected alan wake to sell alot more than that. 360 has a big userbase and its also an exclusive. i read an article somewhere about ps3 exclusives selling 45% better or something

http://playstation.joystiq.com/2008/06/12/ps3-exclusives-sell-45-better-than-multiplatform-releases/

I don't think userbase makes much difference for niche titles.  20 million or 100 million install base mostly they sell only to those interested in that genre.

Only a few titles in the survival horror genre really sell loads, most are decent at best.  I know AW seems a little more shooting/action orientated but in the end the impression I got from the marketing was survival horror.

Personally I really don't know why Remedy went exclusive with this title - in that genre I'd say you either need to know you have a chance of hitting big on the leading platform, or be multi-platform.

I think it'll sell okay, particularly in US, but it's not going to see huge sales I believe and it's going to miss a fair amount of sales by being on 360 as historically survival horror seems (so far as I can tell) to sell better on Sony/Nintendo platforms from a global perspective.

RE5 - perhaps the biggest recent example - sold really well on 360 but even better on PS3 (with different demographic split across US/Japan/Others).   Survival horror sells (or can sell) very well in Japan, and again Remedy took a path sure to limit sales in that region.