Worldwide UP - August 27, 2011

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Jay520 said:
Deus Ex had an excellent openning. It should be able to do over 3 million with DD sales included. It had some pretty moderate ads where I live, but nothing substantial. It sold mainly on it's own quality. I hope to see more games in the future follow this trend.

PS3 had a pretty good week. It's actually more than I expected considering the size of the cut.

One has to wonder will this $50 cut be enough to counter sales of last year. Last year, the PS3 had GT5 & Move. GT5 didn't push much besides the first few weeks, but, believe it or not, Move was actually pretty significant. The PS3 managed to do +200k every week on the release of Move.

One has to wonder will this cut last long enough to counter what PS3 had last year?.

Too bad VGC doesn't allow us to see more than 40 games. I wanted to see if any more games, besides inFamous 2 & Uncharted 2, had any boost.

Move gave a nice boost last year but it wasn't as much as what you might think. Its launch just happened to coincide with the period where sales start to pick up, basically alongside the PES and FIFA launches. To get a good barometer look back at the FIFA launches in 2007 and 2008. Even without Move I would have expected PS3 to do around 170k-190k around then last year. I would expect sales to be around 250k-275k around the start of October.