nordlead said:
The data is through Sep 18th.... seems like 2 days to me. Besides, it is still week 1 sales, as a week is defined from Sunday to Saturday (in NA), people just need to expect a (for typical software curves) a smaller drop in week 2 than a game that started selling on Tuesday rather than Friday. Obviously since this is a peripheral it won't follow typical software sales curves. Anyways, meh sales. Just looking at NA, if the sales aren't sustained at the 50k/week sales or increase in NA it'll probably be a flop. 50k over 14 weeks is only 700k "systems" in NA which is really crappy if you are going to try selling a game compared to the platforms that are already available. To compare it to the closest thing you can compare it to, the WM sold at least 5.2m units in NA to individual owners within 2009 and it still doesn't have decent support within Wii games. |
I would be shocked if Move dipped as low as 50k for the rest of this year, really. It might towards the end of October, but then Black Friday hits and it will do fine.
You have to look at how Move launched. Zero advertising. Near-zero hype. Two Meta 75 games. One bundled with the controller. One multiplat with Move optional. 76 and 78. Quite frankly, until some good games start supporting the thing, it's going nowhere. Fortunately, the Heavy Rain Move Edition is coming, as are RE5, LBP2, and Time Crisis. Hopefully, they will all feature good Move support, and the hardware will start to take off.
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