WW up! 24th September

[Michael-5]

Reasonable said:

Michael-5 said:
Sales are so unusual this week.

-No Halo Reach, Kinect Adventures, or even Black Ops (360) in the top 40, despite the spike in console sales this week.
-Black Ops selling better on PS3 then 360.
- Wii sales getting weaker and weaker, and overall weak sales on all consoles (They were all selling around 200k last year at this time).
-360 not outselling the PS3 in EMEAA despite the Gears spike.

So odd, I expect PS3 to take #2 next week.

The way I see it Gears sucked up all the air in the room on 360 and caused drops in the titles you mention due to sharing same demographics.  Meanwhile on PS3 there was nothing to dent the usual baseline demand for Black Ops.  EMEAA isn't that much of a surprise.  Most of the Gears/HW bump was UK and while the UK market for games is big it isn't so big it can overturn the rest of EMEAA PS3 sales.

PS3 probably will be back in #2 next week as you note.  Wii does look very weak compared to 360/PS3 this week.

As for Kinect the baseline has been low for that for a while so it only takes a few bigger titles launching to squeeze it out.

Gears of war 3 and Kinect Adventures share the same demograph? What you say makes sense, but overall I expected CoD and Halo to be higher on the list then they are now. Maybe people are getting real hyped for MW3 and Battlefield 3.

To be fair PS3 has Resistance 3, and COD is a much bigger game on 360. Then again Black Ops on PS3 barely crossed the top 40.

As for EMEAA, I thought Gears would still appeal to regions in Europe outside UK. It's a pretty big game, and it's not like french gamers don't appreciate a good shooter.

Wii is dying, I don't know if it will get a million seller week this year. I don't think any home console will.