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Seece on 07 October 2011
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Reasonable said:
binary solo said:
Kinda Surprised 360 went up by this much this week sort of expected it to be flat, maybe 1% up, not 12% up. Though FIFA 12 did sell more on 360 than Gears did, so maybe Gears residual sales effect + FIFA 12 can account for that boost.

Nice result for PS3.

With everything being up double figures I'm guessing some sort of holiday effect must be happening too.

Very good second week for Gears. Nice launch for Ico & SOTC.

Child of Eden launch suffering from delayed launch apathy I think.

Yeah, Child of Eden is a bit of a wash.

Hardly the big seller on Kinect/360 predicted and the strong bias to 360 clearly hurt it on PS3 to the extent its going to do even worse there than 360.

TBH I think the publisher really messed up with the whole marketing and timed exclusive approach.  Eden needed to be day date on both consoles and pushed as the best new title for Kinect/Move.  Instead apart from a few fans of the developer it was clear most people were confused about the title, whether you needed Kinect/Move or not.  Whether Move was supported or not.  Whether it was 360 exclusive or not.

Launching into that kind of confusion in today's marketplace is pretty much suicide IMHO.


No ... the vast majority of people that saw it on shelvs wouldn't have even known it was coming to the PS. Launching multiplat day and date wouldn't have done much, it was only timed exclusive for a couple of months.