Americas UP-10th September

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Attoyou said:
Dead Island>Resistance 3 lol

Things are getting interesting.

What? No it's not. Apples with apples R3 is 27K greater than Dead Island according to the Americas numbers I'm seeing. Though I am starting to wonder if PS3 his reaching some sort of FPS saturation point. Even the uber-mega-hit Modern Warfare 3 is looking like it'll fall short of it's lesser Treyarch Black sheep Ops cousin.

Look at all the multiplat FPS games on the top 40 this week and compare to that so-called parity attach rate game sales ratio (1.6) for PS3 and 360 install base: Dead Island 1.93 ratio (OK not a shooter, but it is first person right? and there is a lot of shooting); Deus Ex 1.85 ratio; Black Ops 1.6 ratio; MoH 1.4 ratio. The trend: more recent games are getting worse ratios. Even WH 40K is performing poorly, and that's TPS. As opposed to Driver SF with a very pro-PS3 ratio of 1.3; NCAA football with an equally pro-PS3 1.28 ratio; and AC: Brotherhood with a pretty even 1.54 (slightly pro-PS3). And we won't even mention Mortal Kombat's ratio with PS3 version in Americas = the whole world for 360.

Pre-orders (not really as good indicator as actual sales, but...) MW3 a Massive 2.73 ratio; BF3 (in which EA shows a bit of favouritism to PS3) an also huge 2.31 ratio. I expect Rage to actually flop on PS3 while doing respectably on 360, and I bet Borderlands 2 will sell way below the parity ratio too.

In that context I think it's almost predictable that R3 is going to only sell averagely, and possibly be the lowest selling of the 3 PS3 Resistance games.

Is it too early / not enough data to say that the FPS genre is dying on PS3?

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that while ME3 won't come close to the magic 1.6 ratio it will improve it's ratio over what ME2 managed.

OK-ish small drop for PS3 HW. Japan bounce means it's still on track for PS3 to crack 200K world wide. It's up to us EMEAA.

Nice wee lift for 360 off Dead Island and maybe a bit off WH 40K.

Wii almost 20K behind PS3. I wonder if Wii sales have been negatively affected by the Wii U announcement, even though it's quite a while off launching.

Ummm, what else? Ocarina of Time 3DS legging very well with a LTD 20% attach rate. My son almost bought a 3DS on the weekend, but because Ocarina of Time was the ONLY 3DS game that looked remotely interesting he decided to wait a bit more. Probably until the first proper Pokemon game comes out for 3DS, given it was the only game he really liked on DS. Hopefully that's after the first 3DS redesign where they'll put that second analog knob on the actual 3DS and not sell you an extra attachment for something that should have been there from the get go.