Barozi on 18 March 2013
| Kresnik said: Have you been following trends over a number of weeks to make this claim, or is an observation based on one-time checking of the popularity on amazon? Anything beyond 100 is pointless, really, and without examining it over a period of time it's... well, it's even more pointless. I can tell you from a month or so of following amazon.jp's top 100 that the PS3 version has been hovering inside the top 40 mark for quite some time. Haven't seen the 360 or Wii-U versions at all inside the entire top 100. It may well be that the Wii-U has more amazon.com pre-orders, but with the numbers you're giving it'll be something like 100 for Wii-U v. 20 for the PS3, or equally small-time figures. I'd hazard a guess that with less on the immediate horizon, Wii-U owners may be more likely to pre-order a game in advance than PS360 owners. So it's certainly possible. But I wouldn't go making any claims or drawing any conclusions without doing more research first; and your OP seems to be desperately grasping at straws to make a success out of nothing. Wii-U will have many software successes. This does not appear to be one of them at this point. |
Exactly.
We know that Gamestop is the leader in pre-orders (I think 60% marketshare or even more). Amazon has maybe 10% if they're lucky.
It could very well be that in the last week PS3 and 360 owners really start to preorder the game and immediately obliterate the WiiU version within said week.
Also RE is one of the few huge console games left that do huge numbers in Japan and especially the PS3 version is going to dominate there. 33% and more of the FW sales come from Japan and the PS3 version usually owns 95% of them.
