Barozi said:
Skrunch-a-tron said:
So... from what I can tell, this game came out on the 15th in the UK. so... It's only had three days. I realize I'll probably get blasted by people saying things like "NUH IT DONT WERK DAT WEIGH. ONLY FRST DAYS COUONT" and stuff like that, but to me it makes sense to have such low sales if it's only been on the market for three days in Europe. It came out Tuesday in America, and it's had a week. Plus, we haven't even seen the American sales, let alone the sales for the rest of the world. So I don't get why everyone's so concerned...? maybe by throwing some math and judgement together we can predict what the worldwide sales will be...? ugh, whatever. I'm really enjoying this game either way. |
I see that excuse a lot.
In 90% of the cases a game comes out on a Tuesday in the US and on a Friday in Europe.
Therefore GoW isn't special in that case. The first few days are the most important ones (for non-casual games) so the majority of sales have already been made. We know it did 27k-30k, even with 4 more days it would've done 40k at the end of the week. (2nd week drop is usually over 50%).
At least you didn't make the mistake to say that these numbers only include 1 day of sales.... I see that a lot as well. Though I think they're stopping the week on a Saturday, so it's actually 2 days.
I can understand the hyseria though. Whether it be a small market for that game or not, it hasn't beaten the second week of a multiplat game, let alone its best selling version. And Tomb Raider is not a huge seller either.
Having said all that. Tomb Raider is actually the exception and came out on a Tuesday in the UK (and the rest of Europe). That also explains the big second week drop (-72%).
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I agree but we're just gonna have to sit back and wait for the U.S.and rest of the European sales to make a comment on its sales. Although so far just considering the UK, Netherlands and Japan sales its pretty dissapointing.
