Worldwide UP - August 27, 2011

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Troll_Whisperer said:

CGI-Quality said:

Troll_Whisperer said:

CGI-Quality said:

Nothing more than a hunch (though as I said, not by much - give ore take 2-5k). In 2009, if I remember correctly, it stayed up in EMEAA for 2 or 3 weeks after the initial cut week. Could be different this time, but it's not out of the question.

How else do people think it will maintain a 200k result until the holidays? :P

I didn't think it would, I thought it would go down to 170,000 and start climbing again as the holiday season approaches.

But I certainly hope you're right.

September is a tricky month. It could very well go down next week, but the following week increase again (aided by the cut this particular time).

One thing's for sure, it's about to have a strong holiday in EMEAA and somewhat in Japan. The Americas it'll do good, but be in third place next to both the 360 & Wii.

Well, I agree with that.

360 value add bundles will keep sales going. It's harder to get attention for value add bundles than straight price cuts for the off the street buyer; especially if the value add bundle doesn't necessarily have the games the buyer really wants. But people do like getting free games with their consoles.

Still, only a price cut larger than PS3's in EMEAA could get 360 ahed of PS3 across these markets, and even then it would be close.

It will be interesting to see the effects of games like Gears of War 3. I can see Gears giving 360 a substantial one week boost but not much beyond that. It will be hard to gauge because the holiday rise will be in operation too.

Good to see PS3 crack 200K. Very happy to see UC2 get a nice boost. Sets things up nicely for UC3 which seems to be highly anticipated by the gaming media. I hope UC3 does similar numbers to Gears 3 lifetime. inFamous 2 deserves better, but I'm happy that it's trundling along and making it's way to 1 million before year's end.

Great opening for DX:HR. Are we going to see MH3PHDV get a WW release?