| Yakuzaice said: Galaxy was number 3 in the UK on launch week, behind Assassin's Creed 360 (launch week) and CoD4 360 (second week). Galaxy 2 was number 1. 3D Land had AC:R, SR3, Halo HD, and Zelda SS all launching the same week. It was also ahead of things like FIFA and Just Dance while 3D World is behind them. |
None of those games were up against a console launch, let alone two of them. As you say, 3D Land had AC:R, SR3, Halo HD, and Zelda SS all launching the same week... 3D World has every PS4 launch title launching the same week.
Let's try a slightly different way of looking at it, shall we? Dead Rising 3 released on the Xbox One at launch in both the US and the UK. In the US, it sold about 168k. In the UK, it sold about 34k. In the US, Knack sold about 102k, which should correspond, roughly, to about 21k in the UK, assuming the US-to-UK launch sales are roughly proportional for the two systems. That is weaker than 3D Land, true. But 3D Land was released when the 3DS had sold 560k units in the UK. The Wii U is, to date, at around 195k units. So for it to sell around half the number of copies (and 3D Land had 5 days to sell in, whereas 3D World has had 2 days) isn't bad at all.
You are ignoring actual numbers and focusing on positions. That's like judging a runner's ability purely based on the position they came in one particular race, rather than the time they ran it in.
In fact, since you're judging it based purely on week 1 numbers, it's like trying to compare a marathon runner with a group of sprinters - sure, the marathon runner might start out slower, but that doesn't mean that they're less fit.
