| pezus said: Mario is bundled as well in the UK. So that is no excuse. PS4 also has more varied bundles, to my knowledge, and thus less people (relatively) would pick Knack. Your last sentences can be easily countered. We already get official rankings from the UK so I KNOW Knack isn't undertracked there. However, VGC seem to think that it's doing much better in the UK than the rest of the world, despite being in bundles everywhere...hence my belief. It's not cognitive dissonance, it's just you misinterpreting what you read. |
Mario is bundled in the UK, but UK gamers can choose whether to buy the bundle with 3D World or one of the other bundles, because none of them are sold out. They don't have to buy whichever one they can get their hands on. And the Wii U sold about 9k units in the last week of data we have, while the PS4 sold 50k units. On that basis alone, bundling would not be able to cause 3D World to sell significantly better.
Knack sold about 8.5k copies in the UK in the most recent week of data - so the only way 3D World would overcome that on the basis of bundling would be if 3D World were bundled with every Wii U. Indeed, as it turns out, Super Mario 3D World sold about 10k in that same week - meaning, it's not selling because of bundling, as Knack is, since more copies of 3D World have sold than Wii U units in the same week.
Based on UK VGChartz numbers, Knack is selling to one in 8.6 PS4 buyers in the UK. In the US, the figure for the same week is one in 13.3. In Germany, it's one in 4.5. So what could make this sort of difference? Probably the balance of bundles - more of the PS4 bundles made available (as in, total number of consoles of each bundle, not number of distinct bundles) contain Knack in Germany, and less in the US. Or do you think they're overtracking Knack in Germany?
And yes, it's cognitive dissonance. You believe that Knack being bundled is proof that it's being undertracked in the US, etc, based on the fact that it must be selling to people who want the PS4, even if they didn't actually want Knack, since all the bundles are always sold out... but that Knack is selling better than 3D World in the UK because people don't want 3D World, rather than that those buying a PS4 have to get Knack with it, even if they don't want it.
You use bundling as justification for why it's undertracked, but simultaneously dismiss it as a reason for it selling better than 3D World in the UK. This is cognitive dissonance - you think bundling is of key importance, and simultaneously that it's irrelevant.
