| Aielyn said:
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. |
I don't see any actual numbers for 3D World in your post, just a vague comparison between US and UK sales of Dead Rising and Knack. If we get splits from the Guardian, we can get a better idea, but it isn't looking promising.
Speaking of actual numbers, 3D Land had two days in the UK not five.
I don't know why you are acting like a console launch will have such a larger effect on placements than a bunch of new releases. Even using your estimate for 3DW, it would have been 17th if it had launched the same week as 3D Land. It would have had seven new releases ahead of it. In comparison, this week it is at 20th with four new releases ahead of it, even adding in all the PS4 titles only equalizes it to seven. Last week had a console launch after all, also with seven new releases for the XOne ahead of 20, yet number 20 was only 13.6k. That amount would have only hit number 27 on 3D Land's launch week.
I'm not sure the Wii U has proven it can produce any marathon runners in the UK. Have any non-bundled games spent more than a few weeks in the top 40?
