| Aielyn said:
I must ask - where are you getting the numbers from? Anyway, I wouldn't assume that things under 1,600 units are flops. Just to make the point, consider that Need for Speed Carbon on the Wii had a US launch week of just a touch over 10,000, which is roughly analogous to 1,600 in the UK. It went on to sell 1.2 million copies worldwide, including 407,000 in the US. Launch numbers tend to start out depressed, except for a few must-have titles. In this case, in the UK, it's Nintendo Land, NSMB U, and ZombiU. All other titles tend to take more time to gather momentum. Expect FIFA 13, Skylanders Giants, and Just Dance 4, at least, to perform moderately well by the end of the year - those are titles that will find themselves more often in stockings or giftwrapped, rather than being bought directly by first-buyers. |
AC3 number from http://www.chart-track.co.uk/?i=1470&s=1111
Platform splits from http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/call_of_duty_black_ops_2/news/uk_video_game_chart_black_ops_2_is_top_as_far_cry_3_charts_at_no_2.html
Considering Fifa and Skylanders probably failed to even crack 1k, expecting them to perform moderately well in just the next month seems like wishful thinking. Unless moderately well is less than 10k units. Also not every game will perform like Carbon did according to VGC. Plenty of other Wii launch games had higher (or similar) debuts and far lower total sales. Trauma Center, Excite Truck, Avatar, Rampage, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, basically all the games that started off worse, and a a good chunk of the games that started off far better didn't have those legs. And that was on the Wii, the Wii U has yet to prove if it'll have the same kind of hardware sales that fueled those legs.
